[mythtv-users] Android MythFrontend on Fire Stick

[Dave Pearson (Lists)]

On 13 Oct 2018, at 16:30, Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 10/13/2018 10:56 AM, Dave Pearson (Lists) wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>> 
>> Yes, I saw that, but I haven’t a clue what I need to put into the 
>> dialog boxes to represent the buttons on the remote.
> This is the process, for example to set a button for Menu
> Setup->Edit Keys->Global->Menu
> Press right arrow until you are on a blank box at the bottom
> Press Enter
> See a dialog that says "Press a key Waiting for a key press"
> Press the button on the remote that you want to use for menu (or hold it 
> down for a long press)
> See a dialog that says "Add key 'Enter'"?
> Select OK.
> 
> Repeat for other keys.
> Escape to exit and remember to select OK to "Save changes"
> 
> Note that to use long press you have to first add that to the Long press 
> group and exit out of Edit keys before you can add the Long Press key to 
> the Menu action.
> 
> I set the rewind and FF buttons at the bottom as volume controls, but 
> you can set them as you please, for example you can set a menu option there.
>> 
>> Performance on the Fire TV Stick seems ok for me, I’m only using 720p 
>> for my HD recordings. The playback profile I’m using is “MediaCodec 
>> Normal”. I wonder if I need to create a custom profile?
>> 
> You can try OpenGL Slim. It seems to work about as well as mediacodec 
> normal and may help with your problem with the HDPVR.
>> I can’t see what version of the Fire Stick I have, but the software 
>> version is Fire OS 5.2.6.6 (617513220) and it’s Fire TV Home version 
>> 6.0.9.1-014
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Dave
>> 
>> 
> I have a fire stick gen 2 and it has the same version numbers so I 
> assume yours in gen 2.
> Under certain conditions the colors go wrong. I have a fix for that.
> If you are still having problems with HDPVR recordings you can open 
> ticket, provide a sample file of a recording that causes a crash, and I 
> can look into it.
> 
> Peter
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Hi Peter,

Thanks for your quick response, that’s problem 1 resolved.

Unfortunately, OpenGL Slim is only any good for the DVB live tv & recordings, for the HDPVR live tv & recordings it is unwatchable due to constant freezes.

I do know that the hardware is capable of playing this content, as it works in Kodi, so I suspect it’s a case of setting up a custom profile, but I don’t really know where to start with that as I’ve only ever used the pre-defined profiles.

Regards,
Dave