<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Daniel Frey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dmfrey@gmail.com" target="_blank">dmfrey@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Joseph Fry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@thefrys.com" target="_blank">joe@thefrys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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The latest version was released this morning.<br>
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Thanks to all the MythTV users who helped with the testing on<br>
the 1.0.4 release.<br>
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The Release Notes (with a list of changes and bug fixes) are here:<br>
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<a href="https://github.com/MythTV-Clients/MythTV-Android-Frontend/wiki/1.10.0-Release-Notes" target="_blank">https://github.com/MythTV-<u></u>Clients/MythTV-Android-<u></u>Frontend/wiki/1.10.0-Release-<u></u>Notes</a><br>
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Initial reports show that users running Android releases below Honeycomb<br>
(3.1) will see a "NoSuchMethodError". The fix has already been committed.<br>
Retesting is in progress.</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I was super excited to see the non-HLS capabilities added, however I realized now that all of my h264 content is stored as videos rather than recordings, and my phone doesn't really care for MPEG2.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Is there any estimate as to when video playback will be added?</div><div><br></div><div>Also, I have several videos that I merged into the recordings database, to backfill missing episodes; they play fine from the regular frontend, but I get mixed results on the android frontend... some media players will play some files (usually without audio), some players will fail (bs player always fails), and sometimes a player will work for one 'recording' and not another. I wonder if the imported recording file names contain illegal characters?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks for all your effort on this!</div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">Sorry for replying to myself, but I thought I would try other players and stumbled upon VLC for Android (<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc.betav7neon" target="_blank">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc.betav7neon</a>). Of course it's not available in the US, so I had to download it from <a href="http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/" target="_blank">http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/</a> and install it as an untrusted application... but it works great when playing without HLS.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It plays MPEG2 content well, it skips a ton of frames but it keeps audio and video in sync so it's watchable (tried watching Hockey, it was rough but ok) and it starts playing almost instantly. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">My only complaints are that there is no ability to skip around in MPEG2 video, and it doesn't seem to work with HLS. Considering that many of the players have the same problems, if I could even get them to play something watchable... I can live with it.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Makes me think that VLC might be a good codebase to pull from if the frontend app is going to get a built in player?</div><div class="gmail_extra">
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<br></div></blockquote></div><br>Joseph.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Also in this release, you can now pre-hls transcode your recordings. In doing so, you can kick off a job and let it complete to 100% without watching it right then and there. You can start watching it whenever you want so long as at least 2% have completed. But with the pre-transcoding, you can now seek back and forth in the stream. I am not sure if all players support it or not, but I know DicePlayer does and seems to remember where you were in the stream as well (not our doing). That may solve your issue, albeit through a bit of a work around.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Dan</div></div><br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>Dan,</div><div class="gmail_extra" style>Not specifically a MythTV for android question, but is it possible to kick off HLS as a user job on the backend so that HLS streams are queued ahead of time and just ready by the time I get to my android front end?</div>
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