[mythtv-users] Leanfront observations

Yeechang Lee ylee at columbia.edu
Tue Mar 3 14:07:56 UTC 2020


Observations after using several Leanfront client versions including
108 on Nvidia Shield TV with 29 backend:

* Some sort of progress/busy message would be welcome when refreshing
  lists. With 2600 recordings and however many more videos, refreshing
  takes about 30 seconds.
* Supporting in-app voice search is excellent; it's amazing how few
  apps do so. I realize that you are using the existing Android
  functionality, which makes other software not doing so all the more
  inexplicable.
* Android keycode MEDIA_STOP does nothing. I suggest it unconditionally exits
  playback.
* Similarly, perhaps have MEDIA_PLAY and MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE
  unconditionally start playback, as opposed to showing the "play from
  start/other actions" menu?
* Once you implement the equivalent of the mainline client's DEBUGOSD,
  can Android keycode INFO be used for this?
* The jellyfish 400mbps and both 140mbps tests
  (<http://www.jell.yfish.us/>) all pause playback at 9-12 seconds
  in. Skipping forward and back allows playback to continue. There is
  no audio in the 400mbps and 140mbps h264 clips.
* The rounded MythTV logo the mainline Android client shows on opening
  would be preferable for the upper right corner to the one current
  used. Also as Leanfront's Android TV launcher icon, without the
  diagonal skew.
* No ability to "Scan For Changes" for videos. (I realize that
  Leanfront is for now meant to supplement the mainline client and is
  leveraging existing Android functionality as much as possible, but
  not being able to do so when "refreshing lists" does exist is
  confusing.) Perhaps invoke with Android keycode MENU?

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