[mythtv-users] MythTV Player 1.1.2 available to all on Google Play Store

[Daniel Frey]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 8:57 AM Daniel Frey <dmfrey at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 6:27 AM Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Another question (sorry). I have JW Player installed so HLS should be
>> working. What's supposed to happen when you press Queue HLS text button?
>> When I press it the text button disappears and nothing much happens and
>> then it reappears after about a minute. How do you play the stream from
>> here?
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>
> Phil,
>
> I did some testing with the external player.  I currently use VLC.  What I
> have found is that VLC will not allow me to skip forward and back in my
> recordings. However, it works fine on mkv blueray rips and other videos.
> My recordings lately are all .ts files.  I am not sure if that is a
> restriction VLC has on that file type or not, but I doubt it. Also,
> skipping forward and back works completely on an HLS stream, once its been
> 100% transcoded.  When I try to skip while watching a stream that is not
> 100%, it doesn't skip at all.
>
> We just found a bug last night when queuing HLS on mythtv 0.27 backends
> that it is not sending the recording start time in the correct format.  It
> is priority number one.
>
> https://github.com/MythTV-Clients/MythtvPlayerForAndroid/issues/37
>
> This process changed in v0.28 where it is accepting the recordedid instead
> of the channel id and start time to add a HTTP Live Stream job.
>
> As a work around, you can go to http://[your backend ip]:6544 and queue
> the job. It will end up in the app. Live Streams sync pretty quickly, every
> minute or so while the app is running.  Otherwise, use the external player.
> I should have it fixed sometime today or this evening and pushed to the
> store.  I am on v0.28, so I have to rely on others to find these bugs.
>
> Dan
>

Phil,
It looks like this version should be available in the beta channel now. If
you are not in the beta, let me know and I will promote it up to production.

Dan
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