[mythtv-users] Frontend for Apple TV 4

Bart Whiteley bart.lists at whiteley.org
Wed Nov 11 01:16:37 UTC 2015


On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca>
wrote:

>
> 1080i or 720p?
>

CPU utilization is about 65% for 1080i and 45% for 720p.


>
> Which de-interlacer are you using?  Do you offer de-interlacing options?
>

I'm currently using whatever libVLC uses by default. Looks like that might
be Blender? I don't offer options currently. It looks like that wouldn't be
too hard. I haven't noticed a problem with 1080i content.


>
> Does your client mark recordings played automatically?
>

The beta version I sent out last night has a progress bar with each item in
the recordings list, so you can see which have been watched. I see there is
an API call to mark recordings watched on the backend. I'll add that this
week.


> Is the current playback position saved on exit so one can resume where we
> left off?
>

Yes.


> Just on your client or on Mythfrontend?
>

It's stored in iCloud, so it is synced across all your Apple TVs. I haven't
found a way to store or retrieve playback positions with the Services API,
so they are currently not synced with Mythfrontend.


>  Does your client offer commerical skipping?
>

Just 30-second skip and fast-forward. It doesn't use the commercial
flagging data yet.


>  Playback at 1.1 or 1.2 times normal?  None of these are deal-breakers,
> but they are nice features of the native frontend.
>

The beta does 1.3, 2, 4, 6x playback. I can add more steps if that's
interesting. I'm thinking about making that configurable.


>
> Just for interest, what protocol do you use to connect to the backend?
> The Services API?
>

Yes, the Services API.


> Did you previously do an iOS client or is this brand new?
>

This is brand new.
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