[mythtv-users] Frontend for Apple TV 4

[Bart Whiteley]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Chris Hoff <hoffchris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I just setup my new Apple TV and your app is working great, thanks!

Glad to hear it!

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> I prefer operating in the Enable Arrow Buttons: No mode to avoid inadvertent seeking.  But then I miss the 10 minute forward/back seek that seems to only be available with top/bottom taps when arrow buttons are enabled.  Is it possible for the trackpad on the Siri remote to detect top/bottom clicks like it does with left/right?

I have a new version waiting for review by Apple that removes the
Enable Arrow Buttons setting. Instead, the buttons always work on
universal remotes and trackpad taps are always ignored. This is the
way I wanted it to be all along but the SDK doesn't make it easy to
distinguish universal remote button presses vs. trackpad taps.

I could detect top/bottom clicks on the trackpad. It was my belief
that if you wanted to skip as far as 10 minutes, then clicking and
scrubbing with the thumbnailer would be much preferred to a 10-minute
skip. Perhaps that was a bad assumption. Also, top/bottom clicks don't
feel quite as nice in part due to the "diving board" effect of the
trackpad -- the pressure required to click is inconsistent across the
vertical position. It's also not easy to tell where the trackpad stops
at the bottom.

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> I have a feature request.  I generally like my recordings grouped alphabetically.  But sometimes I want to work through recent recordings.  With the full Mythfrontend, I use the ‘All Programs’ group to accomplish this.  Could you add a group like this to your app?

Yes. I'll add that to the list. Thanks for the feedback.

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> I also have an issue to report.  I started watching the Orange Bowl today about 20 minutes after the recording started.  The recording is scheduled to last 4 hours and this was the time displayed on the far right of the seek bar.  However, it was counting down rapidly and the current position indicator was counting up rapidly.  The 10 second seek back didn’t seem to work at all and the 30 second seek forward seemed to only go forward about 10 seconds.  Is this a known issue?  The recording source is MPEG2 from an HDHR.

This is a known problem while watching a recording in progress. I'm
working on a solution to improve that situation.

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bart