[mythtv-users] Frontend for Apple TV 4

[Tom Bongiorno]

On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Tom Harris <thom.j.harris at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 6:08 AM, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca>
> wrote:
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>> > On Nov 7, 2015, at 12:24 AM, Tom Harris <thom.j.harris at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I was surprised to find a MythTV app in the Apple TV 4 app store.   So,
>> I thought I would give it a try for the $4 app cost.
>> >
>> > It worked quite well for me.  It played my HD MPEG2 (US Broadcast)
>> recordings quite well.  It doesn’t do live TV, schedule recordings, or any
>> other mythfrontend features.. it just plays recordings.  But, that’s all I
>> want from a frontend 95% of the time.
>> >
>> > The main thing I found lacking was the navigation.  Right/Left arrows
>> didn’t do the skip forward/back you would expect.  You could only move in
>> the video via the new remote’s touchpad control on the video timeline.
>> That touchpad is probably great for a lot of things, but doing 30 second
>> skips is not one of them.
>> >
>> > Overall, I thought it was a really solid first version.  If the skip
>> forward/back controls are added it could become my primary frontend.
>>
>> What is the exact name?  Can you provide a link?
>>
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> The name is “MythTV”.   I don’t think there are any web links to Apple TV
> only apps - making them really hard to find.  I also didn’t find any other
> reference to the app on the web prior to launch.   I guess the author is
> not one for marketing.   The only current way to find it is to search
> within the app store on the Apple TV.
>
>
>> Re playing un-transcoded recordings, is your AppleTV on a wired
>> connection or wireless (which flavour)?
>>
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> I’m on wireless, 5GHz N / AC.  I’m guessing the new AppleTV is using AC.
> My other frontends are on N-wireless, and all can do ATSC MPEG2 playback
> just fine.  Obviously, your mileage may vary depending on your house and
> wifi location.
>
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>> I don’t have a new Apple TV, but I understand that at least some players
>> implement a 10 second skip forward/back by tapping on the right/left of the
>> player bar.  Have you tried that?
>>
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> I did try that.  I also tried input from IR to see if my universal remote
> could control it.  Navigation worked fine, but skip ahead / back did not.
>
> I later read the notes in the app listing (RTFM) and there it said slide
> up on the touchpad is +30s, slide down is -8.   That works pretty well, and
> is much better than trying to navigate the timeline.  But, I think the
> remote goes into power savings mode pretty quickly, because it seems to
> miss the first slide after long pauses.
>
> When the remote is working, the skip ahead/back is pretty quick.   Not as
> quick as a native frontend, but nothing is.  If it would react to IR
> navigation in all four directions, like Mythfrontend, it would be a big
> improvement.
>
>
>> Thanks for the report!
>>
>> Craig
>>
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It is interesting to here that it will decode MPEG2. Are you sure that your
recordings are MPEG2? There is no mention of MPEG2 support in the specs for
the ATV4.

-Tom
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