[mythtv-users] MythTV uPnP and Android

[Greg Oliver]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:06 AM, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:
> On 17/01/17 15:42, John Pilkington wrote:
>>
>> On 16/01/17 23:04, Jay Foster wrote:
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> <snip>
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>>> FWIW, I have successfully used Kodi on my Samsung android tablet to play
>>> MPEG2 TV recordings.
>>> Jay
>>
>>
>> Yes:  You don't say how you did it, but using GinkgoDnla with an
>> 'out-of-the-box' Kodi as the video renderer does seem to work and give a
>> measure of playback control for MPEG2; but with h264 in both 704x576 and
>> 1920x1080 I get only the audio.  The Ginkgo display doesn't distinguish
>> between these cases, listing them all as video/mpeg.  But then it
>> identifies DVD .iso files as text/plain and offers to open them with a
>> choice of browsers...
>>
>> Perhaps I need some kodi plugins.
>
>
> Or perhaps not.  It plays h264 encoded Videos that have an .mp4 suffix.
> My TV seems happy with that.  Ginkgo labels them as video/mp4.
>
> As noted above, Ginkgo labels Myth h264 .ts recordings as video/mpeg and
> Kodi doesn't play them - but the TV and Mythfrontend do;  so it's not
> immediately obvious how to satisfy everyone.
>
> ... and it's GinkgoDlna  (Digital Living...), not as above.  Funny, I always
> thought the *tree* was a gingko.
>
>

When I first started this trek of throwing media everywhere to
anything @ home, it was way back when VLC was called mpeg4ip.  I have
yet to find a solution that is one size fits all.  What I did find
however (which I no longer use), is a DLNA server that I worked with
the developer on to properly support my DirectTV receivers (back when
they played home media from the network).  The side effect of this was
a DLNA server that you can put profiles into that will change the
appearance of media presented to devices based on factors that you
determine (android tablet, ipod, iphone, home receiver, etc)...

It is heavy, and that was back in the day when devices were hardware
limited to what they can play.  I find nowadays that

1) I'm not watching anything on my little phone anymore
2) My tablet plays anything I throw at it with VLC
3) I could care less about a pretty interface unless I'm on a TV
4) If I need to watch recordings while I am away, I do not have enough
outbound bamdwidth to do it anyway, and I plan ahead and pull the
recordings down before I leave

Serviio will allow you to change the ts suffix to something for only
those devices that will not play it though.  It really is a great
program (although I have not used it since 2010/11).  I do not want to
detract from MediaTomb as well.  It does the same thing, but you have
to write your own scripts to accomplish it based on render devices.
Both will accomplish what you want.