I was surprised to find a MythTV app in the Apple TV 4 app store. So, I
thought I would give it a try for the $4 app cost.
It worked quite well for me. It played my HD MPEG2 (US Broadcast)
recordings quite well. It doesn’t do live TV, schedule recordings, or any
other mythfrontend features.. it just plays recordings. But, that’s all I
want from a frontend 95% of the time.
The main thing I found lacking was the navigation. Right/Left arrows
didn’t do the skip forward/back you would expect. You could only move in
the video via the new remote’s touchpad control on the video timeline.
That touchpad is probably great for a lot of things, but doing 30 second
skips is not one of them.
Overall, I thought it was a really solid first version. If the skip
forward/back controls are added it could become my primary frontend.
thought I would give it a try for the $4 app cost.
It worked quite well for me. It played my HD MPEG2 (US Broadcast)
recordings quite well. It doesn’t do live TV, schedule recordings, or any
other mythfrontend features.. it just plays recordings. But, that’s all I
want from a frontend 95% of the time.
The main thing I found lacking was the navigation. Right/Left arrows
didn’t do the skip forward/back you would expect. You could only move in
the video via the new remote’s touchpad control on the video timeline.
That touchpad is probably great for a lot of things, but doing 30 second
skips is not one of them.
Overall, I thought it was a really solid first version. If the skip
forward/back controls are added it could become my primary frontend.