[mythtv-users] MythTV uPnP and Android

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Tue Jan 17 12:30:31 UTC 2017


On 17/01/17 01:18, Daniel Frey wrote:
> Can you put VLC for Android on that tablet?

That seems to be what I'm using:  VLC 2.0.6 compiled by jb at vin 
2016-08-12 ARM v7

Mostly it just says VLC

I tried MythTV Player but 'it had stopped', and the G+ beta version says 
my account isn't eligible.  AFAIK I'm not in G+ and so far I've resisted.

>
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 6:06 PM Jay Foster <jayf0ster at roadrunner.com
> <mailto:jayf0ster at roadrunner.com>> wrote:
>
>     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.
>     >
>     > The App info shows as com.ginkgosoft.dnla.ctrl Version 0.9.48 and the
>     > main icon is called GinkgoDlna
>     >
>     > 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.
>     >
>     > I do have problems with the video display, as I mentioned in the other
>     > thread.
>     >
>     > 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.
>     >
>     > 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.
>     >
>     > I tried one other video player but it seemed no better than VLC and
>     > had intrusive ads.
>     >
>     > I haven't yet found fast-forward or other controls of playback
>     position.
>     >
>     > John P

>     >
>     FWIW, I have successfully used Kodi on my Samsung android tablet to play
>     MPEG2 TV recordings.
>     Jay



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