[mythtv-users] MythTV uPnP and Android

[Jay Foster]

On 1/16/2017 2:34 PM, John Pilkington wrote:
> I mentioned in another thread that I had been trying to play content 
> from Myth on my underemployed Android 4.2.2 tablet. I started with the 
> thought that it might give me usable audio streaming.  I haven't had 
> much Android experience, and may not want to actually use the tablet 
> for this in real life, but it's looking quite promising, with both 
> 0.28-fixes and 0.29-pre. Here's a brief report.
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> The App info shows as com.ginkgosoft.dnla.ctrl Version 0.9.48 and the 
> main icon is called GinkgoDlna
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> It seems to use a native Android Renderer to play Music content, and a 
> selectable video app to play video content.  I'm using VLC.
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> I do have problems with the video display, as I mentioned in the other 
> thread.
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> I found at first that, during playback, sound worked but the screen 
> was black except when the tablet was rotated.  Then a good video 
> display would appear, rotate through 90 degrees with appropriate 
> change of scale,...and fade away again.
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> Later I found that h264 content displays properly - until it triggers 
> a hardware decoding error, when it falls back to software decoding 
> with the behaviour above. That is what I always see for most of my 
> content, which is mpeg2 encoded.
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> I tried one other video player but it seemed no better than VLC and 
> had intrusive ads.
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> I haven't yet found fast-forward or other controls of playback position.
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> John P
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FWIW, I have successfully used Kodi on my Samsung android tablet to play 
MPEG2 TV recordings.
Jay