[mythtv-users] Lean Front

[Peter Bennett]

On 1/15/23 08:53, Paul Harrison wrote:
> 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.
>
>
There is a failure in playback, likely caused by some sort of corruption 
in the file. Is it a recording or a video? Does it happen with all 
recordings?

The message does not indicate an unsupported format. If you play an 
unsupported format video, you get a blank screen with audio only.

Please open an issue in github and supply a sample video. I suggest you 
use google drive or a similar service to upload the video and add a link 
to the issue. I will take a look and see what the problem is. You can 
also try the suggestions in the documentation to reformat the file using 
ffmpeg or mkvmerge. See the section "Problems" in 
https://github.com/bennettpeter/android-MythTV-Leanfront#readme. The 
reformat is very quick and does not re-encode the video.

Regarding the Amazon changes, they do not affect leanfront. leanfront 
does not launch other apps.

Peter