[mythtv-users] MythTV Android Frontend is now available in the Google Play Market

[Yianni Vidalis]

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> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 22:26:02 -0400 
> From: vendion at gmail.com 
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org 
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Android Frontend is now available in  
> the Google Play Market 
>  
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Larry K  
> <lunchtimelarry at gmail.com<mailto:lunchtimelarry at gmail.com>> wrote: 
> I am having trouble streaming video with this app.  I'm on myth 0.25.2  
> and Android 2.3.4. 
>  
> I can navigate to my recordings and see the list.  Once I select the  
> recording, it takes maybe 20 seconds to prompt me for the app to use,  
> at which point I select MX Player.  Then it takes another couple of  
> seconds and I see the first 1/2 second of the recording.  Then it stops  
> and the screen goes white.   When I check the backend I see a transcode  
> job still running, using 245% of a quad core cpu.  If I wait awhile,  
> then I am again prompted for the app to launch for the recording.  
>   Eventually, it fails, and the transcode job is removed from the  
> backend. 
>  
>  
> I am having the same issue with Myth 0.26 and Android 4.1.1 and  
> CyanogenMod 10 (Android JB based).  I get ~1 second playback before it  
> stops and Mythfronted for Android just sits there at a white screen. 
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I had the same problem with MX Player on a HTC Sensation icecream...

I solved it by unselecting the "Use H/W decoder" (only the first box) under Settings/Decoder. Now recordings stream ok. AND, there is a "HW" on the app top, which I think means it uses h/w decoding(!).

Yianni.