[mythtv-users] MythTV Android Frontend 1.10.0 Released

[Joseph Fry]

>  The latest version was released this morning.
>>
>> Thanks to all the MythTV users who helped with the testing on
>> the 1.0.4 release.
>>
>> The Release Notes (with a list of changes and bug fixes) are here:
>>
>>     https://github.com/MythTV-**Clients/MythTV-Android-**
>> Frontend/wiki/1.10.0-Release-**Notes<https://github.com/MythTV-Clients/MythTV-Android-Frontend/wiki/1.10.0-Release-Notes>
>>
>> Initial reports show that users running Android releases below Honeycomb
>> (3.1) will see a "NoSuchMethodError". The fix has already been committed.
>> Retesting is in progress.
>
>
> I was super excited to see the non-HLS capabilities added, however I
> realized now that all of my h264 content is stored as videos rather than
> recordings, and my phone doesn't really care for MPEG2.
>
> Is there any estimate as to when video playback will be added?
>
> Also, I have several videos that I merged into the recordings database, to
> backfill missing episodes;  they play fine from the regular frontend, but I
> get mixed results on the android frontend... some media players will play
> some files (usually without audio), some players will fail (bs player
> always fails), and sometimes a player will work for one 'recording' and not
> another.  I wonder if the imported recording file names contain illegal
> characters?
>
> Thanks for all your effort on this!
>

Sorry for replying to myself, but I thought I would try other players and
stumbled upon VLC for Android (
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc.betav7neon).
 Of course it's not available in the US, so I had to download it from
http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/ and install it as an untrusted
application... but it works great when playing without HLS.

It plays MPEG2 content well, it skips a ton of frames but it keeps audio
and video in sync so it's watchable (tried watching Hockey, it was rough
but ok) and it starts playing almost instantly.

My only complaints are that there is no ability to skip around in MPEG2
video, and it doesn't seem to work with HLS.  Considering that many of the
players have the same problems, if I could even get them to play something
watchable... I can live with it.

Makes me think that VLC might be a good codebase to pull from if the
frontend app is going to get a built in player?
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