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On Jan 7, 2013 5:53 AM, "Brian J. Murrell" <<a href="mailto:brian@interlinx.bc.ca">brian@interlinx.bc.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 13-01-06 10:05 PM, Bill Meek wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > I believe you have a 9" tablet, from what I got Googling around.<br>
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> Yep.<br>
><br>
> > The<br>
> > layout sounds just like mine. Except where you have a list on the left,<br>
> > I have banners (for shows that MythTV has banners for.)<br>
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> OK.<br>
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> > In the upper right, you should have some icons.<br>
><br>
> Right. It was pressing one/some of those before that I got an NPE, so<br>
> I've mostly avoided pressing those any more.<br>
><br>
> > And I have no idea what<br>
> > their proper names are, but they look like a circle with arrows (Refresh),<br>
> > an eyeball (Play), a paper airplane (Play the recording on the frontend)<br>
> > and the vertical ellipses (Help.)<br>
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> Ahhhh! It was the eyeball to play bit that I was missing. Eureaka! I<br>
> have playback. Yikes, at 196% of CPU (2 cores). I guess this is going<br>
> to be why I was asking about non-HLS (i.e. transcoded) playback.<br>
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> > Pressing the eyeball should start transcoding on the backend and then<br>
> > start the external viewer (or give you a choice if you have more than<br>
> > one.) I'm using Dice Player currently.<br>
><br>
> Indeed, it does.<br>
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> > The whitespace is where the coverart would go. So that begs yet another<br>
> > question, do you have metadata with your MythTV Watch Recordings screen?<br>
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> No. I don't use a coverart theme on my frontends. I use Mythcentre.<br>
><br>
> > Do you have storage groups setup for Banners, Coverart and Fanart?<br>
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> Nope. Didn't see any point given that I don't use FE themes that would<br>
> use it.<br>
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> > Dan gets to answer this one. I don't see these messages.<br>
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> So are show thumbnails not used on the Android frontend at all then? I<br>
> wonder why they are being fetched constantly then. Even this morning, 8<br>
> hours after I reported them last night, they are still being reported as<br>
> being fetched, on my BE and yet not a single episode (that I have found,<br>
> of course I did not check all 500 of them) has a thumbnail.<br>
><br>
> > Unfortunately, none of the above gets any closer to explaining why you're<br>
> > getting the NPEs.<br>
><br>
> Since I have been unable to reproduce them, let's treat them as a<br>
> "startup" red-herring.<br>
><br>
> Cheers,<br>
> b.<br>
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<p dir="ltr">Brian,<br>
The next release will give you the option to pre-transcode recordings so they are available immediately and you won't have to wait for startup or processing to a point before they can be watched.</p>
<p dir="ltr">You, for instance, set a few to process before you go to bed. Then they are available for immediate streaming the next day. And the remain transcoder until you remove them.</p>
<p dir="ltr">That should hopefully reduce the strain on your backend.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Dan</p>