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

[Peter Bennett]

On 10/24/19 12:42 AM, Tom Harris wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 12:18 PM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com 
> <mailto: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.
>
>
This is still a very preliminary version, more like a proof of concept. 
My primary aim was to get 4K video to work on android. I will be making 
many improvements.

Peter
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