[mythtvnz] recommendations for front end...

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Kenneth Dixon <kenneth.b.dixon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Kodi no longer uses the cmyth library, it has migrated to the myth api
which was intriduced around myth 0.25. No scaling or transcoding is
done by either the old pvr.cmyth.mythtv or the new pvr.mythtv.