[mythtv-users] Help, I've screwed up mythfrontend and Leanfront on my FireTV

[Jim Abernathy]

> 1.  So v0-173 Leanfront fixed the LiveTV problem on the Shield TV and 
> FireTV 4K; Thanks.
>
> 2.  I increased all tuning timeouts to 8000, but no change.  On 
> mythfrontend on the FireTV 4K, I have found that it must be a 
> mythtv-frontend video profile setting.  For some reason those settings 
> get changed with a fresh backend. Once I set them and exit they change 
> on the next running of the app. If I get them right and assign a 
> unique identifier they still doesn't stick until as least the 2nd time 
> after it's setup and exited, launched, and then setup again.
>
> So what I noticed is regardless of LiveTV or Recorded TV, the 1080i 
> programs fail and the 720p ones play correctly. Now I just have to 
> find the setting I use to use on the FireTV. I think I posted those on 
> the Mythtv forum so I'll check there.
>
> Jim A
>
I found the correct settings for FireTV 4K at 
https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=3857

and that fixed the issue. I thought the frontend would remember it's 
previous settings, but the new backend reset them somehow.

Anyway, it fixed now.

Jim A