[mythtv-users] Experimental Android TV "leanback" MythTV frontend

[James Abernathy]

On 8/22/19 11:14 AM, Peter Bennett wrote:
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>
> On 8/21/19 3:17 PM, Peter Bennett wrote:
>> I am developing a pure android application for Android TV devices 
>> called android-MythTV-Leanfront.
>>
>> It uses the android TV leanback user interface as used by other apps 
>> such as youtube, prime video, etc. to play MythTV recordings.
>>
>> It supports 4K resolution video at 50 fps and voice search, which are 
>> not working on mythfrontend for android. Also it supports surround 
>> sound.
>>
>> It does not yet support many of the important features of 
>> Mythfrontend, and some features it may never support.
>>
>> See https://github.com/bennettpeter/android-MythTV-Leanfront for more 
>> details
>>
>> Peter
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>
> To answer David's question on IRC - Some reasons for attempting this:
>
> - I saw an opportunity to use the android exoplayer library and the 
> sample program to easily build a new frontend.
>
> - Support Voice search, 4K playback, use only service api and avoid 
> version dependence.
>
> - Avoid Existing android frontend problems - it is compiled with 
> IGNORE_SCHEMA_VER_MISMATCH, IGNORE_PROTO_VER_MISMATCH", it will not 
> support 4K or ipv6, we have to build with out of date ndk.
>
> - frontend should not require a 4k device to play 1080 recordings.
>
> Peter

I've been playing with the new leanfront app on my Shield TV on a 
4K-60fps Samsung TV. I'm comparing the mythfrontend app to the new 
Leanfront mythtv app. If I watch a networked news broadcast which is 
1080i OTA recorded from and antenna and a Hauppauge WinTV Quad PCIe 
tuner I see only a very slight difference.  The news broadcast has a 
text crawl along the bottom inserted by the local tv station with 
weather and traffic. Depending on the app you view this with, you can 
see small differences in the jitter of the news crawl. Normally with the 
TV showing the news straight from the antenna using it's internal tuner 
the crawl is perfect. With the Shield TV Kodi app, and Mythtv-leanback 
app the crawl is perfect just like the TV only viewing. The Shield TV 
Mythtv-frontend android app has just a very slight jitter in the crawl. 
You have to look hard to notice it.  Also testing with the Raspberry Pi 
4 with mythtv combo Frontend and backend there is no jitter on the crawl.

So now for a couple of questions on the Leanback app. Is there a way to 
delete a program from the list you don't want? How can you skip forward 
and backward easily. using the ">>" control seems to be very hard for me.

Jim A