[mythtv-users] Frontend for Apple TV 4

[Byron Poland]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 8:19 PM Bart Whiteley <bart.lists at whiteley.org>
wrote:

> 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.
>
>

Does it support 5.1 channel sound?  I tried it and it defaulted to 2
channels.  if I run Plex and watch something with 5.1 sound, I get it
there.
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