<p dir="ltr">I can send you a debug version if you like. What backend version are you running?</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 17, 2017, 7:32 AM John Pilkington <<a href="mailto:J.Pilk@tesco.net">J.Pilk@tesco.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 17/01/17 01:18, Daniel Frey wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
> Can you put VLC for Android on that tablet?<br class="gmail_msg">
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That seems to be what I'm using: VLC 2.0.6 compiled by jb@vin<br class="gmail_msg">
2016-08-12 ARM v7<br class="gmail_msg">
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Mostly it just says VLC<br class="gmail_msg">
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I tried MythTV Player but 'it had stopped', and the G+ beta version says<br class="gmail_msg">
my account isn't eligible. AFAIK I'm not in G+ and so far I've resisted.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 6:06 PM Jay Foster <<a href="mailto:jayf0ster@roadrunner.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">jayf0ster@roadrunner.com</a><br class="gmail_msg">
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jayf0ster@roadrunner.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">jayf0ster@roadrunner.com</a>>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
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> On 1/16/2017 2:34 PM, John Pilkington wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
> > I mentioned in another thread that I had been trying to play content<br class="gmail_msg">
> > from Myth on my underemployed Android 4.2.2 tablet. I started with the<br class="gmail_msg">
> > thought that it might give me usable audio streaming. I haven't had<br class="gmail_msg">
> > much Android experience, and may not want to actually use the tablet<br class="gmail_msg">
> > for this in real life, but it's looking quite promising, with both<br class="gmail_msg">
> > 0.28-fixes and 0.29-pre. Here's a brief report.<br class="gmail_msg">
> ><br class="gmail_msg">
> > The App info shows as com.ginkgosoft.dnla.ctrl Version 0.9.48 and the<br class="gmail_msg">
> > main icon is called GinkgoDlna<br class="gmail_msg">
> ><br class="gmail_msg">
> > It seems to use a native Android Renderer to play Music content, and a<br class="gmail_msg">
> > selectable video app to play video content. I'm using VLC.<br class="gmail_msg">
> ><br class="gmail_msg">
> > I do have problems with the video display, as I mentioned in the other<br class="gmail_msg">
> > thread.<br class="gmail_msg">
> ><br class="gmail_msg">
> > I found at first that, during playback, sound worked but the screen<br class="gmail_msg">
> > was black except when the tablet was rotated. Then a good video<br class="gmail_msg">
> > display would appear, rotate through 90 degrees with appropriate<br class="gmail_msg">
> > change of scale,...and fade away again.<br class="gmail_msg">
> ><br class="gmail_msg">
> > Later I found that h264 content displays properly - until it triggers<br class="gmail_msg">
> > a hardware decoding error, when it falls back to software decoding<br class="gmail_msg">
> > with the behaviour above. That is what I always see for most of my<br class="gmail_msg">
> > content, which is mpeg2 encoded.<br class="gmail_msg">
> ><br class="gmail_msg">
> > I tried one other video player but it seemed no better than VLC and<br class="gmail_msg">
> > had intrusive ads.<br class="gmail_msg">
> ><br class="gmail_msg">
> > I haven't yet found fast-forward or other controls of playback<br class="gmail_msg">
> position.<br class="gmail_msg">
> ><br class="gmail_msg">
> > John P<br class="gmail_msg">
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> ><br class="gmail_msg">
> FWIW, I have successfully used Kodi on my Samsung android tablet to play<br class="gmail_msg">
> MPEG2 TV recordings.<br class="gmail_msg">
> Jay<br class="gmail_msg">
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