[mythtv-users] android mythfrontend timeline issue fixed?

[Jim Abernathy]

On 6/5/20 8:53 AM, Jim Abernathy wrote:
>
> Until recently I've been use the Android mythfrontend 
> (mythfrontend-20200323-arm64-v31.0.apk 
> <https://dl.bintray.com/bennettpeter/generic/mythtv_31/android_64/:mythfrontend-20200323-arm64-v31.0.apk>) 
> on my Nvidia Shield TV.
>
> I was having a problem with watching in-progress recordings when I 
> used the down arrow to advance 10 minutes if that was the first press 
> of any direction key at a point 10-20 minutes into a viewing session. 
> When I did this it skipped more than 10 minutes.
>
> This week I built the apk from source using master 
> (mythfrontend-20200602-arm64-v32-Pre-523-g907841a119.apk). The 
> timeline issue seems to be fixed.  Even though the new FE says v32, it 
> works with my v31 backend also.
>
> I still have issues with properly setting up 5.1 surround sound, but 
> that's not a big deal for me in OTA TV watching.
>
> I still don't know if I have the optimum settings for MPEG2 HD video, 
> but what I have works fine and the picture is great most of the time.
>
> Jim A
>
> P.S. Android mythtv-leanfront's video is still better, but they are 
> close now.
>

I know this is a 2 month old post but I wanted to updated it.

After yesterday's finding of an issues related to my Shield TV and using 
a USB Flash drive constantly inserted in one of the USB port, here's the 
details.

This morning I was watching an in-progress recording about 30-40 minutes 
behind real time. Absolutely no video quality issues at the 15 minute 
point as previously observed. Also at the 20 minute point where the 
network cuts to the local station for local news, I used the down arrow 
to skip 10 minutes to the 30 minute point and it works as expected.

The version tested was mythfrontend-20200716-arm64-v31.0-79-g89d1991ef2.apk.
<https://dl.bintray.com/bennettpeter/generic/mythtv_31/android_64/:mythfrontend-20200716-arm64-v31.0-79-g89d1991ef2.apk>

The hardware was a 2017 Shield TV.

Not sure if either the Shield TV or mythfrontend could have been using 
the external USB Flash key for any caching but, whatever I did by 
eliminating the USB Flash key seems to have fixed this problem.

This was not an intermittent problem. It happened everyday at about the 
same timeline points.

So this seems to be my issue only which explains why no one could 
duplicate the problem

Jim A



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