[mythtv-users] MythTV Frontend for Android released on Market

[Erik Sejr]

On 2/27/2012 10:29 AM, Mike Chinander wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Erik Sejr <esejr at wildroseinternet.ca
> <mailto:esejr at wildroseinternet.ca>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks for writing this. I gave it a try on my setup.
>
>     Phone was a Bell Motorola Atrix 4G Running android 2.3.6
>     MythTV is 0.24-fixes v0.24.2-14-g9743d9c
>
>     I was able to get it to connect to the backend OK, I was also able to
>     get it to retrieve the list of recorded programs. it would be nice
>     if it
>     could sort them as a feature in the future as I have a lot (thousands)
>     of recordings. Given the size of the list it loaded in a reasonable
>     amount of time, however if I selected a recording nothing happened, I
>     waited for about 2-3 minutes.
>
>     I also tried the videos button, it starts loading videos, but never
>     displays the list and force closes.
>
>
> I have an AT&T Atrix-4G and my experience is about the same as yours
> (not nearly as many recordings though). 
>
> Would it be possible to use an external player? VPlayer is supposed to
> be hardware accelerated. I've only really tried it on videos that were
> already down-converted though, so I'm not sure how well it works with
> HD content on this phone.
>
> --Mike
>
Hmm, I have Act 1 installed on my phone. I know it uses hardware
acceleration, however I don't see any option in mythfrontend (android)
to specify the player beyond the internal player checkbox. Checking or
unchecking the internal player option seems to have no effect.

Erik
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