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On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Fred Squires <fsquires@gmail.com> wrote:
> I also just installed this MythTV app for my AppleTV and it's working great
> so far. Any chance of adding MythVideo support to the app?

I'll add that to the list. I wondered how long it would be before
video was requested.
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The killer features for me would be live tv and the guide. I only have two
cable boxes in the house. Some TV's don't get used much because they don't
have a cable box. Too expensive to hook them all up at $10-12 apiece when
they aren't used daily. But if I could hook both cable boxes up to MythTV
and use the AppleTV app to get live TV at all the TV's in the house, even
at $150 apiece it wouldn't take long for an AppleTV to pay for itself.

Incidentally, I transcode everything and drop it into iTunes, so I wouldn't
really use any of the other features.

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Bart Whiteley <bart.lists@whiteley.org>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Fred Squires <fsquires@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I also just installed this MythTV app for my AppleTV and it's working
> great
> > so far. Any chance of adding MythVideo support to the app?
>
> I'll add that to the list. I wondered how long it would be before
> video was requested.
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On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Eric Pheatt <eric.pheatt@gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you have any plans for the long click event from the listing? I can't let
> my 4 year old use the siri remote for his shows since he has accidentally
> deleted recordings with the normal click. He has not figured out the long
> click yet though and it seems like a good way to bring up other recoding
> specific actions like delete, re-record, etc..
>

There is a new update that has a configuration setting to disable the
ability to delete.
There is also a setting to configure the margin width for text and
playback controls.
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On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Bart Whiteley <bart.lists@whiteley.org>
wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Eric Pheatt <eric.pheatt@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Do you have any plans for the long click event from the listing? I can't
> let
> > my 4 year old use the siri remote for his shows since he has accidentally
> > deleted recordings with the normal click. He has not figured out the long
> > click yet though and it seems like a good way to bring up other recoding
> > specific actions like delete, re-record, etc..
> >
>
> There is a new update that has a configuration setting to disable the
> ability to delete.
> There is also a setting to configure the margin width for text and
> playback controls.


Hey Bart, when playing H.264 content, does your app use the VLC libraries
used for MPEG-2 or does it use the apple (hardware accelerated) video
playback?

I’ve seen comments from European DVB users, so I assume H.264 playback
works. So, I’m now just wondering if there may be benefits with H.264
content, like HW deinterlacing.

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Tom Harris <thom.j.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Bart, when playing H.264 content, does your app use the VLC libraries
> used for MPEG-2 or does it use the apple (hardware accelerated) video
> playback?
>
> I’ve seen comments from European DVB users, so I assume H.264 playback
> works. So, I’m now just wondering if there may be benefits with H.264
> content, like HW deinterlacing.
>

Hi Tom. The app uses libVLC for all content playback. H.264 playback works.

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On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 1:44 AM Bart Whiteley <bart.lists@whiteley.org>
wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Tom Harris <thom.j.harris@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hey Bart, when playing H.264 content, does your app use the VLC
> libraries
> > used for MPEG-2 or does it use the apple (hardware accelerated) video
> > playback?
> >
> > I’ve seen comments from European DVB users, so I assume H.264 playback
> > works. So, I’m now just wondering if there may be benefits with H.264
> > content, like HW deinterlacing.
> >
>
> Hi Tom. The app uses libVLC for all content playback. H.264 playback works.
>
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>
>
Bart,

Any chance we will see 5.1 sound in an upcoming release? The guys working
on the Channels app pulled it off, so hoping you can as well.

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Byron Poland <wpoland@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Any chance we will see 5.1 sound in an upcoming release? The guys working
> on the Channels app pulled it off, so hoping you can as well.
>

Yes, that's on the list. No ETA yet though.
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On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 2:30 AM, Jari Seppälä
<lihamakaroonilaatikko@gmail.com> wrote:
> I installed the MythTV for my ATV4 as soon as I found out about it. Many thanks for it. It is an enabler towards single frontend device in my living room which has been my dream for so long.
>
> Couple of things to make it better for your backlog:
> * UTF8 as default codepage, or possibility to change it, there is life outside ascii :)

This should be fixed in the update that was released last week.

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Bart Whiteley <bart.lists@whiteley.org> kirjoitti 27.4.2016 kello 7.31:
>
> On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 2:30 AM, Jari Seppälä
> <lihamakaroonilaatikko@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I installed the MythTV for my ATV4 as soon as I found out about it. Many thanks for it. It is an enabler towards single frontend device in my living room which has been my dream for so long.
>>
>> Couple of things to make it better for your backlog:
>> * UTF8 as default codepage, or possibility to change it, there is life outside ascii :)
>
> This should be fixed in the update that was released last week.
>
It was fixed in the Beta version.

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> On Apr 27, 2016, at 12:34 AM, Jari Seppälä <lihamakaroonilaatikko@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Bart Whiteley <bart.lists@whiteley.org> kirjoitti 27.4.2016 kello 7.31:
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 2:30 AM, Jari Seppälä
>> <lihamakaroonilaatikko@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I installed the MythTV for my ATV4 as soon as I found out about it. Many thanks for it. It is an enabler towards single frontend device in my living room which has been my dream for so long.
>>>
>>> Couple of things to make it better for your backlog:
>>> * UTF8 as default codepage, or possibility to change it, there is life outside ascii :)
>>
>> This should be fixed in the update that was released last week.
>>
> It was fixed in the Beta version.
>

Is Live TV ever coming ? That would make this the ultimate front end box for me.

Greg

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> On Apr 27, 2016, at 8:28 AM, Greg Thompson <gthompson20@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Apr 27, 2016, at 12:34 AM, Jari Seppälä <lihamakaroonilaatikko@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Bart Whiteley <bart.lists@whiteley.org> kirjoitti 27.4.2016 kello 7.31:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 2:30 AM, Jari Seppälä
>>> <lihamakaroonilaatikko@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I installed the MythTV for my ATV4 as soon as I found out about it. Many thanks for it. It is an enabler towards single frontend device in my living room which has been my dream for so long.
>>>>
>>>> Couple of things to make it better for your backlog:
>>>> * UTF8 as default codepage, or possibility to change it, there is life outside ascii :)
>>>
>>> This should be fixed in the update that was released last week.
>>>
>> It was fixed in the Beta version.
>>
>
> Is Live TV ever coming ? That would make this the ultimate front end box for me.

Why not use Channels for Live TV?

Craig
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> On Apr 27, 2016, at 9:00 AM, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven@cogeco.ca> wrote:
>
>> On Apr 27, 2016, at 8:28 AM, Greg Thompson <gthompson20@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Apr 27, 2016, at 12:34 AM, Jari Seppälä <lihamakaroonilaatikko@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Bart Whiteley <bart.lists@whiteley.org> kirjoitti 27.4.2016 kello 7.31:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 2:30 AM, Jari Seppälä
>>>> <lihamakaroonilaatikko@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I installed the MythTV for my ATV4 as soon as I found out about it. Many thanks for it. It is an enabler towards single frontend device in my living room which has been my dream for so long.
>>>>>
>>>>> Couple of things to make it better for your backlog:
>>>>> * UTF8 as default codepage, or possibility to change it, there is life outside ascii :)
>>>>
>>>> This should be fixed in the update that was released last week.
>>>>
>>> It was fixed in the Beta version.
>>>
>>
>> Is Live TV ever coming ? That would make this the ultimate front end box for me.
>
> Why not use Channels for Live TV?
>
> Craig


Not everyone is using Silicon Dust Tuner ;)

HD-PVR

Greg

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 7:00 AM, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven@cogeco.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Is Live TV ever coming ? That would make this the ultimate front end box for me.
>
> Why not use Channels for Live TV?

Live TV is on the list but requires a fix to libVLC that isn't available yet.

Channels is a fine product, but it needs a dedicated HDHR tuner (one
that is not in your MythTV pool) or else it can clobber a recording in
progress. Also, DVR integration is nice so you can start a show live
and have the DVR record the remainder of it if you don't want to
finish watching it live.

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On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 9:31 PM, Bart Whiteley <bart.lists@whiteley.org>
wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 2:30 AM, Jari Seppälä
> <lihamakaroonilaatikko@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I installed the MythTV for my ATV4 as soon as I found out about it. Many
> thanks for it. It is an enabler towards single frontend device in my living
> room which has been my dream for so long.
> >
> > Couple of things to make it better for your backlog:
> > * UTF8 as default codepage, or possibility to change it, there is life
> outside ascii :)
>
> This should be fixed in the update that was released last week.
>

This Apple TV frontend is by far the easiest option for a MythTV frontend -
which I’m reminded of this week as I’m digging into the configuration of a
couple other mythfrontend systems. It just works, with no complications
in setup.

Bart: Are there any plans to improve the “time shifting” behavior (watching
programs which are currently recording)? For example, watching a ballgame
that I begin 45 minutes after the game starts (a common occurrence for
me). There are problems with the length of the jumps ahead/back, depending
on where I am in the recording. Also, if I exit a recording and then
resume, the point where it resumes is nowhere near the point where I had
left off.

Any chances were going to be able to watch videos using this front end?

Being limited to only watching recordings is a bummer.

App is very nice otherwise.

Using it on my ATV4 now.

What about liveTv?

I have been using this app for a few months and recently updated to
.28. The app no longer works and only displays a green image when you
attempt to play a recording. I'd also love to see commercial
skipping.

I used this exclusively for watching Myth recordings for several months.

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 9:18 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard@gmail.com> wrote:
> Any chances were going to be able to watch videos using this front end?
>
> Being limited to only watching recordings is a bummer.
>
> App is very nice otherwise.
>
> Using it on my ATV4 now.
>
> What about liveTv?
>
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On 15 November 2016 at 09:02, Captain Hook <captainhookzero@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been using this app for a few months and recently updated to
> .28. The app no longer works and only displays a green image when you
> attempt to play a recording. I'd also love to see commercial
> skipping.
>
> I used this exclusively for watching Myth recordings for several months.

it's working here with 0.28..

just missing liveTV and the ability to watch videos other than recordings.
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On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Captain Hook <captainhookzero@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have been using this app for a few months and recently updated to
> .28. The app no longer works and only displays a green image when you
> attempt to play a recording. I'd also love to see commercial
> skipping.
>
> I used this exclusively for watching Myth recordings for several months.
>

Same here.. I just upgraded my old MythTV 0.27 / Ubuntu 14.04 backend to
MythTV 0.28 / Ubuntu 16.04.

The recordings play fine on Kodi and on my TV via UPnP. But, when I try
on the AppleTV MythTV app I get what looks to be corrupted mpeg decoding.
It's a mostly green screen with some blocks of other colors & patterns.


>
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 9:18 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Any chances were going to be able to watch videos using this front end?
> >
> > Being limited to only watching recordings is a bummer.
> >
> > App is very nice otherwise.
> >
> > Using it on my ATV4 now.
> >
> > What about liveTv?
> >
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On 20 November 2016 at 07:19, Tom Harris <thom.j.harris@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Captain Hook <captainhookzero@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have been using this app for a few months and recently updated to
>> .28. The app no longer works and only displays a green image when you
>> attempt to play a recording. I'd also love to see commercial
>> skipping.
>>
>> I used this exclusively for watching Myth recordings for several months.
>>
>
> Same here.. I just upgraded my old MythTV 0.27 / Ubuntu 14.04 backend to
> MythTV 0.28 / Ubuntu 16.04.
>
> The recordings play fine on Kodi and on my TV via UPnP. But, when I try
> on the AppleTV MythTV app I get what looks to be corrupted mpeg decoding.
> It's a mostly green screen with some blocks of other colors & patterns.
>

Sounds like another case of this bug

https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12479

I'm guessing the Apple TV Mythtv App uses HLS transcoding which is
currently broken for some recording types and has been for quite some time
now.

Cheers,

Anthony

On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 7:59 PM, Anthony Giggins <seven@seven.dorksville.net
> wrote:

>
>
> On 20 November 2016 at 07:19, Tom Harris <thom.j.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Captain Hook <captainhookzero@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have been using this app for a few months and recently updated to
>>> .28. The app no longer works and only displays a green image when you
>>> attempt to play a recording. I'd also love to see commercial
>>> skipping.
>>>
>>> I used this exclusively for watching Myth recordings for several months.
>>>
>>
>> Same here.. I just upgraded my old MythTV 0.27 / Ubuntu 14.04 backend
>> to MythTV 0.28 / Ubuntu 16.04.
>>
>> The recordings play fine on Kodi and on my TV via UPnP. But, when I try
>> on the AppleTV MythTV app I get what looks to be corrupted mpeg decoding.
>> It's a mostly green screen with some blocks of other colors & patterns.
>>
>
> Sounds like another case of this bug
>
> https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12479
>
> I'm guessing the Apple TV Mythtv App uses HLS transcoding which is
> currently broken for some recording types and has been for quite some time
> now.
>

The author had previously mentioned software decoding of MPEG2 in the app,
so I don't think it relies on transcoding -- and my backend is not fast
enough to transcode HD content.

Now that I have gotten a couple recordings after the 0.28 upgrade, I see
that 0.27 recordings have corrupted playback and 0.28 recordings work fine.

On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 8:57 PM, Tom Harris <thom.j.harris@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 7:59 PM, Anthony Giggins <
> seven@seven.dorksville.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 20 November 2016 at 07:19, Tom Harris <thom.j.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Captain Hook <captainhookzero@gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have been using this app for a few months and recently updated to
>>>> .28. The app no longer works and only displays a green image when you
>>>> attempt to play a recording. I'd also love to see commercial
>>>> skipping.
>>>>
>>>> I used this exclusively for watching Myth recordings for several months.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Same here.. I just upgraded my old MythTV 0.27 / Ubuntu 14.04 backend
>>> to MythTV 0.28 / Ubuntu 16.04.
>>>
>>> The recordings play fine on Kodi and on my TV via UPnP. But, when I
>>> try on the AppleTV MythTV app I get what looks to be corrupted mpeg
>>> decoding. It's a mostly green screen with some blocks of other colors &
>>> patterns.
>>>
>>
>> Sounds like another case of this bug
>>
>> https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12479
>>
>> I'm guessing the Apple TV Mythtv App uses HLS transcoding which is
>> currently broken for some recording types and has been for quite some time
>> now.
>>
>
> The author had previously mentioned software decoding of MPEG2 in the app,
> so I don't think it relies on transcoding -- and my backend is not fast
> enough to transcode HD content.
>
> Now that I have gotten a couple recordings after the 0.28 upgrade, I see
> that 0.27 recordings have corrupted playback and 0.28 recordings work fine.
>
>
>
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> I had the same issue and was able to "fix" the problem by renaming all of
my raw recording transport streams in .mpg files to .ts and updated the
recording table to match with a bit of simple shell scripting. This is due
to the mimetype changes in
https://code.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/7bf6bb1/mythtv that could have used
a file/metadata migration script.