[mythtv-users] Lean Front

[Paul Harrison]

On 15/01/2023 10:26, James Linder wrote:

> I setup lean front on a firestick.
> All good.
> The first movie I go to play plays for 1 second then pops up a dialog saying lots including
>
> Format Supported=yes
> Renderer failed
> [abort] [continue]
>
> continue repeats.
>
> Does this make any sense to anybody
> Do I need to transcribe the gobeldy gook from the dialog
> Should I try to use eg rapi and mythtv instead
>
> James


 From what Peter has said previously Leanfront does not use software 
decoding so you can only play formats supported by the hardware decoder. 
It kind of looks like the file you are trying to play is supported but 
is still failing for some reason. Depending on where you live and what 
format your local broadcaster uses you may have to re-encode your 
recordings before they will play properly.


In other news the Amazon is slowly strangling the life out of anything 
that stops users from using their Launcher to view content. They did it 
with making it harder to replace the Launcher with custom ones and now 
we have this which makes the FireTV devices less attractive to many users :(

https://www.aftvnews.com/amazon-now-forbids-fire-tv-apps-from-directly-launching-content-within-other-streaming-apps/


Paul H.