[mythtv-users] android sticks

[Raymond Wagner]

On 8/26/2013 7:11 PM, stuart wrote:
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> On 8/26/2013 4:38 PM, Tyler T wrote:
>>> Actually, it's either a lot harder, or a bit simpler, depending on 
>>> which route you
>>> choose.  You're either talking about porting the whole of MythTV to 
>>> Android, which
>>> while still Linux is far from GNU/Linux, or adding protocol/services 
>>> support to an
>>> existing Android video player.
>> Right. And it may not even go that far. The OP asked about using "an
>> android stick to just play back recorded TV", not "running the
>> mythfrontend executable on ARM". So the question really is, can the
>> Android stick in question -- with existing Android OS with the
>> existing Android player -- display ATSC or h.2whatever his capture
>> device is recording on his Myth BE, via some network protocol, be it
>> NFS, SMB, HTTP, myth://, or whatever. As such, it might be considered
>> marginally off-topic but I'm tolerant. :)
>>
> I've been watching my mythtv back end on an Adroid device using the 
> myth UPNP interface.   There is none of the commercial skipping. And 
> the interface is not as nice as a real mythtv front end.  But it is 
> working for low resolution video.  For HDTV it's a bit difficult on my 
> setup.  But I suspect that is a function of running Cyanogenmod on an 
> HP Touchpad.
>
> Isn't the Mythtv front end written in Qt?  Isn't "necessitas" 
> (spelling?) a way to run Qt on Android devices? I'm thinking the 
> trickiest part will be playing videos and the graphic overlays.  I am 
> guessing, but I doubt that necessitas has those capabilities (yet).

Just having the application framework is only part of the battle. Most 
people tend to forget, it's GNU/Linux, not Linux.  Linux is just the 
kernel, GNU is the operating system.  Android is a completely different 
operating system, and getting MythTV to run on it is no different than 
the considerable amount of work it took to get MythTV to run on Windows 
or OSX.