[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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