[mythtv-users] Frontend for Apple TV 4

[Eric Pheatt]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 8:57 PM, Tom Harris <thom.j.harris at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 7:59 PM, Anthony Giggins <
> seven at seven.dorksville.net> wrote:
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>> On 20 November 2016 at 07:19, Tom Harris <thom.j.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
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>>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Captain Hook <captainhookzero at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have been using this app for a few months and recently updated to
>>>> .28.  The app no longer works and only displays a green image when you
>>>> attempt to play a recording.  I'd also love to see commercial
>>>> skipping.
>>>>
>>>> I used this exclusively for watching Myth recordings for several months.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Same here..   I just upgraded my old MythTV 0.27 / Ubuntu 14.04 backend
>>> to MythTV 0.28 / Ubuntu 16.04.
>>>
>>> The recordings play fine on Kodi and on my TV via UPnP.   But, when I
>>> try on the AppleTV MythTV app I get what looks to be corrupted mpeg
>>> decoding.   It's a mostly green screen with some blocks of other colors &
>>> patterns.
>>>
>>
>> Sounds like another case of this bug
>>
>> https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12479
>>
>> I'm guessing the Apple TV Mythtv App uses HLS transcoding which is
>> currently broken for some recording types and has been for quite some time
>> now.
>>
>
> The author had previously mentioned software decoding of MPEG2 in the app,
> so I don't think it relies on transcoding -- and my backend is not fast
> enough to transcode HD content.
>
> Now that I have gotten a couple recordings after the 0.28 upgrade, I see
> that 0.27 recordings have corrupted playback and 0.28 recordings work fine.
>
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> I had the same issue and was able to "fix" the problem by renaming all of
my raw recording transport streams in .mpg files to .ts and updated the
recording table to match with a bit of simple shell scripting. This is due
to the mimetype changes in
https://code.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/7bf6bb1/mythtv that could have used
a file/metadata migration script.
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