[mythtv-users] Experimental Android TV "leanback" MythTV frontend

[Tom Harris]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 12:18 PM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am developing a pure android application for Android TV devices called
> android-MythTV-Leanfront.
>
> It uses the android TV leanback user interface as used by other apps
> such as youtube, prime video, etc. to play MythTV recordings.
>
> It supports 4K resolution video at 50 fps and voice search, which are
> not working on mythfrontend for android. Also it supports surround sound.
>
> It does not yet support many of the important features of Mythfrontend,
> and some features it may never support.
>
> See https://github.com/bennettpeter/android-MythTV-Leanfront for more
> details


I tried it on my FireTV 4K Stick.  The video playback looked very good, and
I had no problems with 1080i MPEG2 (I have to do software decoding to do
1080i on mythfrontend).  That seems like quite a big advantage to get good
playback on more devices without the Mythfrontend configuration tweaking.

The part I wasn’t crazy about is the skip ahead/back.  Mythfrontend is
lightning fast in this regard - nothing else I’ve tried comes close.
Leanfront was on par with  other video players, but relative to
mythfrontend is slow.

I guess I’m too happy with the mythfrontend client (Thanks, Peter) to be
looking for alternatives.  But, if the performance could rival mythfrontend
it would be interesting.  I only use the recording playback, so a leaner
app that did that well would be great.

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