[mythtv-users] MythTV Player 1.1.5 available to all on Google Play Store

[Frank Phillips]

On Apr 13, 2015 10:36 PM, "Bill Meek" <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 04/13/2015 10:12 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
> ...
>
>> James,
>> In order to help, i would need some further information, such as the
device
>> you are trying to run it on, your mythtv backend version, etc.
>>
>> I put the external play option in there because some users requested not
to
>> have to always do a HLS Transcode. I tried it with VLC and it worked fine
>> for me. Your mileage may vary.  Others have reported they had success
with
>> VLC, some didn't.  They tried other players like MX Player, DIce Player,
>> etc.  There are lots of them in the Google Play Store.  Try another one.
>>
>> That being said, I cannot support the External Players directly.  It is
not
>> code that I have any control over.
>>
>> For Streaming, make sure your backend is configured with the correct
>> streaming configuration.  You need a Streaming Storage Group setup.  The
>> progress indicator with run indeterminately until your backend has
reported
>> some progress on the HLS transcode. If you are not receiving and update,
>> then check your backend, it probably isn't running the HLS transcode or
it
>> failed for some reason.  Look in your logs.
>>
>> Lastly, I am just one person working on this code in my spare time. It is
>> one way that I can give back to mythtv. Bill Meek has helped me
>> considerably with all the testing and documentation. And more people are
>> starting to report bugs and enhancements. I will address them in turn.
>
>
> Unfortunately (for others), I run 0.28-pre and record nearly everything in
> HD. And that works both with HLS and VLC. Between 0.28-pre, 0.27, SD and
HD,
> there are (obviously) 8 test cases. 3 are failing and in 2 of those cases,
> mythtranscode is dropping 10's of thousands of "Audio stream changed"
errors.

Good news:
Today I bisected the 0.27 transcode errors. It's a compound problem caused
by two commits pre-0.27.4.

> That's not an app error. But users can't tell unless they look at their
> mythtranscode.log. Not something that's expected of them.
>
> 0.27 HD VLC may be 'jerky'. I've got no clue why this happens.
>

Mx player is very good, once you install the external codec package for ac3
support.

> https://github.com/MythTV-Clients/MythtvPlayerForAndroid/wiki/Home
>
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