[mythtv-users] MythTV uPnP and Android

Daniel Frey dmfrey at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 14:25:56 UTC 2017


I can send you a debug version if you like. What backend version are you
running?

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017, 7:32 AM John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:

> On 17/01/17 01:18, Daniel Frey wrote:
> > Can you put VLC for Android on that tablet?
>
> That seems to be what I'm using:  VLC 2.0.6 compiled by jb at vin
> 2016-08-12 ARM v7
>
> Mostly it just says VLC
>
> I tried MythTV Player but 'it had stopped', and the G+ beta version says
> my account isn't eligible.  AFAIK I'm not in G+ and so far I've resisted.
>
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 6:06 PM Jay Foster <jayf0ster at roadrunner.com
> > <mailto:jayf0ster at roadrunner.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 1/16/2017 2:34 PM, John Pilkington wrote:
> >     > I mentioned in another thread that I had been trying to play
> content
> >     > from Myth on my underemployed Android 4.2.2 tablet. I started with
> the
> >     > thought that it might give me usable audio streaming.  I haven't
> had
> >     > much Android experience, and may not want to actually use the
> tablet
> >     > for this in real life, but it's looking quite promising, with both
> >     > 0.28-fixes and 0.29-pre. Here's a brief report.
> >     >
> >     > The App info shows as com.ginkgosoft.dnla.ctrl Version 0.9.48 and
> the
> >     > main icon is called GinkgoDlna
> >     >
> >     > It seems to use a native Android Renderer to play Music content,
> and a
> >     > selectable video app to play video content.  I'm using VLC.
> >     >
> >     > I do have problems with the video display, as I mentioned in the
> other
> >     > thread.
> >     >
> >     > I found at first that, during playback, sound worked but the screen
> >     > was black except when the tablet was rotated.  Then a good video
> >     > display would appear, rotate through 90 degrees with appropriate
> >     > change of scale,...and fade away again.
> >     >
> >     > Later I found that h264 content displays properly - until it
> triggers
> >     > a hardware decoding error, when it falls back to software decoding
> >     > with the behaviour above. That is what I always see for most of my
> >     > content, which is mpeg2 encoded.
> >     >
> >     > I tried one other video player but it seemed no better than VLC and
> >     > had intrusive ads.
> >     >
> >     > I haven't yet found fast-forward or other controls of playback
> >     position.
> >     >
> >     > John P
>
> >     >
> >     FWIW, I have successfully used Kodi on my Samsung android tablet to
> play
> >     MPEG2 TV recordings.
> >     Jay
>
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