[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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