[mythtvnz] recommendations for front end...

[Kenneth Dixon]

Hi Don, Yeah I have heard of issues with playing videos on Samsung devices,
but don't know the details as I don't have one. Using a third party app
such as Kodi might avoid the issue.

So MythTV just does a standard recording, which is h.264 encoding for
DVB-T.
The cmyth plugin uses the MythTV API to cache recorded show details opens a
stream that the Android version of Kodi (XBMC) plays. I don't know the
details, but there might be some on-the-fly scaling done on the MythTV side.

Your best best bet is just try it, I don't think it's on the play store
yet, so here is a link:
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/releases/android/arm/kodi-14.0-Helix-armeabi-v7a.apk
Just open using your tablet, allow unauthorised sources and install.
Once installed, go to plugin section and enable cmyth under the PVR lugins
section. Here are some instructions:
http://kodi.wiki/view/PVR/Backend/MythTV

Good luck, let us know how it goes.



On 7 January 2015 at 14:16, Don Robertson <don at robertson.net.nz> wrote:

> On Wed, 07 Jan 2015 13:26:06 Kenneth Dixon wrote:
>
> > There are a lot of android devices out which will work as a MythTV
> frontend
> > if combined with Kodi <http://kodi.tv/> (XBMC) and the the cmyth PVR
> plugin:
> > http://www.dx.com/s/google+tv
> > I haven't tried it with one of these stand alone boxes, but works fine
> with
> > a tablet + HDMI out.
> >
> > You also get the native Netflix app.
> >
> > Ken.
>
>
> Since you mention Android, I'll ask. I have not really had a good google on
> this - so sorry if it is obvious.
>
> I have tried several things to play my MythTV recordings on a Samsung
> tablet,
> but none work. I always get a error something like 'Sorry, this format
> cannot
> be played'. The only thing that seems to play the videos is VLC.
>
> I did have a go at finding out more - and it could be that Samsung has
> restricted the formats the device can play.
>
> So just wondering if you have set MythTV up to record in an Android
> friendly
> format, if Kodi is transcoding for Android, or if I should have got
> something
> other than a Samsung device? I could not find codec to install for the
> tablet,
> either.
>
> Finally - are you using an Android app to play the videos, or a uPnP
> client?
>
> Cheers,
> Don
>
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