<div dir="ltr"><div>I tried the prebuilt Android frontend on my Firestick 4k. It won't play MPEG2 files "out of the box" and the options described in the MythTV wiki to configure it don't exist in that build. It needs to come pre-configured to play those files, since most users in the US still deal with ATSC 1.0 files.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve<br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div><div>Steve Greene<br>(301) 842-8923</div><div><a href="http://historicity.co" target="_blank">historicity.co</a><br></div>An independent archival professional specializing in still photography, moving images and recorded sound.<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 10:12 AM James Abernathy <<a href="mailto:jfabernathy@gmail.com">jfabernathy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 9:38 AM Peter Bennett <<a href="mailto:pb.mythtv@gmail.com" target="_blank">pb.mythtv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Actually I am not using mythfrontend on android at the moment,
just building it and posting the package when necessary. There was
some problem with the ffmpeg interface to mediacodec that affected
mpeg2 on the fire stick. I do not remember if that was ever
resolved. Perhaps there are other problems with it now. Since
leanfront works fine, mediacodec must be ok. Leanfront only uses
mediacodec, it does not have a software decode method for video.<br></p>
<p>The problem with skipping on mythfrontend - does if affect
recordings and videos the same? Recordings have a seek table on
the database to speed up jumps, videos do not (unless you have
done something to delete, change or create a seek table). When
there is a seek table mythfrontend uses that to skip. When there
is no seek table it uses ffmpeg to skip.<br>
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<p>At some point I may get a fire stick 4K Max but I do not have
time to deal with it now.</p>
<p>Peter</p></div></blockquote><div>The problem with skipping is the same on MPEG2 recordings of TV and m4v H.264 Videos that I converted from MPEG2 originally.</div><div><br></div><div>As far as I can see this is a FireTV 4k MAX issue only.</div><div><br></div><div>I agree that with Leanfront available there are only a few requirements for mythfrontend. I'll describe one failure I've had with Leanfront that I don't get with mythfrontend on my Shield TV.</div><div><br></div><div>You have a recording happening and you start watching using Leanfront about 30 minutes after the show started recording. I notice that when I skip forward the endtime on the timeline never changes and is fixed to what the endtime was when I first started watching the program. No issues to this point, however, as my watching time gets to and past the original endtime, if I skip forward the watching time actually skips back to the original endtime so in some cases it could be many minutes backward. <br></div><div><br></div><div>So for watching a football game mythfrontend is better when I start 1 hour late, I can watch and skip commercials without any backward mess up. For completely finished recordings Leanfront is best.</div><div><br></div><div>FYI, as a test I tried Kodi 19.3 on the FireTV Max and it worked the same as Leanfront for video quality, but you have to like the Kodi interface, which I'm not a fan of.</div><div><br></div><div>Jim A</div><div><br></div></div></div>
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