[mythtv-users] android playback without HLS?

[Bill Meek]

On 01/06/2013 07:31 PM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> Maybe this problem is a bit of a PEBKAC and lack of expected UI issue.
> Perhaps I am not even successfully selecting a recording to be played.
>
> What I have, once I select "Home" and then "Recordings" is a list of
> shows down the left, episodes on the bottom right 2/3 of the screen and
> episode summary on the top right 2/3.  The episode summary changes as I
> select shows and episodes from the left and bottom.

I believe you have a 9" tablet, from what I got Googling around. The
layout sounds just like mine. Except where you have a list on the left,
I have banners (for shows that MythTV has banners for.)

> For every episode I select there is this huge honking block of
> "whitespace" between the summary and the episode list.  I had assumed
> that pressing episodes was supposed to start one but I am starting to
> think that perhaps that just selects the episode who's summary is
> displayed.  Is there some further action I must take to actually watch
> that episode?

In the upper right, you should have some icons. And I have no idea what
their proper names are, but they look like a circle with arrows (Refresh),
an eyeball (Play), a paper airplane (Play the recording on the frontend)
and the vertical ellipses (Help.)

Pressing the eyeball should start transcoding on the backend and then
start the external viewer (or give you a choice if you have more than
one.) I'm using Dice Player currently.

> Presumably there is supposed to be something in that big whitespace?
> A thumbnail perhaps?

The whitespace is where the coverart would go. So that begs yet another
question, do you have metadata with your MythTV Watch Recordings screen?
Nothing wrong with it if you don't, it's not mandatory.

Do you have storage groups setup for Banners, Coverart and Fanart?

> I so see a somewhat sporadic stream of:
...
> Jan  6 20:28:51 pvr mythbackend[12074]: I HttpServer66 httprequest.cpp:834 (TestMimeType) HTTPRequest::TestMimeType(/video/mythtv/3044_20130106130000.mpg.-1.400x300.png) - type is image/png
...
> Which would appear to be successful thumbnail fetches.  But I picked
> one that I saw having been fetched in the log and then navigated to that
> episode on the Android FE but there was still no thumbnail being shown.

Dan gets to answer this one. I don't see these messages.

Unfortunately, none of the above gets any closer to explaining why you're
getting the NPEs.

-- 
Bill