Android MiniClient - ExoPlayer

[mechling-burgh]

That would be nice I tried his version on my FireTV and it didn't work as well as yours did for me.

[cncb]

Originally Posted by jm9843

For the curious, do you have a link to the discussion about this being fixed in Plex? Maybe they had to do something on the software side in combination with Nvidia's fix.

Here's the discussion I was following but there is no mention of a specific Plex software fix: https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/22...ng-to-25-hours

In my testing, it doesn't happen in Plex anymore although Plex currently remuxes .ts files for playback on the Shield so that probably affects it.

[Daweeze]

Originally Posted by stuckless

I could push 1.1.0 to the Amazon App Store... I just ignored it... since EvilPenguin had a separate fork with Amazon's version of ExoPlayer. If people want, I can publish 1.1.0 to the Amazon store.

That would be great. I do not intend to side-load any apps so typically I would only use the Amazon store for the app. While an optimized Fire TV version would probably be ideal, unless you guys figure that you will only publish the forked version there, I will never receive that version.

Thanks!

-Travis

[cncb]

Originally Posted by cncb

With my Sage recordings, it seems to stick on the first frame of video and not play at all or in a strange fast-forward fashion.

Turns out these MPEG-2 recordings were mistakenly created in Sage in the "TS" format and were locking up Windows Explorer so I deleted them. I just made a "PS" recording and have the same results as cculpepp with ExoPlayer: choppy video with no sound.

[cculpepp]

Originally Posted by cncb

Turns out these MPEG-2 recordings were mistakenly created in Sage in the "TS" format and were locking up Windows Explorer so I deleted them. I just made a "PS" recording and have the same results as cculpepp with ExoPlayer: choppy video with no sound.

So, in doing a little research, it looks like ExoPlayer doesn't support the PS format.

https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/issues/1098

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by cculpepp

So, in doing a little research, it looks like ExoPlayer doesn't support the PS format.

https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/issues/1098

@Narflex added the PS support to ExoPlayer after this issue was created.

[EnterNoEscape]

Originally Posted by stuckless

@Narflex added the PS support to ExoPlayer after this issue was created.

A different issue that can happen is if the content is H.264, it doesn't appear that SageTV will choose TS over PS and the end result is a file that doesn't playback correctly on most normal devices (including the Android miniclient). In this case it's not a fault of the player since H.264 isn't supposed to be in a PS container.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Daweeze

That would be great. I do not intend to side-load any apps so typically I would only use the Amazon store for the app. While an optimized Fire TV version would probably be ideal, unless you guys figure that you will only publish the forked version there, I will never receive that version.

Thanks!

-Travis

I've submitted to Amazon.

[mlcarson]

Shield is connected directly to the TV and via HDMI only. I disabled the passthru setting and allowed ffmpeg to decode the AC3. I have had an issue though but it was while playing HD. The playback speed started going really slow and choppy. Clicking watch TV again fixed it but I've went back to IJK Player again since I see no advantage in using Exoplayer if it has the potential for problems.

Originally Posted by cculpepp

I'm completely stumped. Anytime I try to play OTA mpeg2 channels with ExoPlayer, it's very choppy with no sound. Is your Shield connected to an AVR then to your TV, or directly to your TV?

[Daweeze]

Originally Posted by stuckless

I've submitted to Amazon.

Awesome. It automatically updated to the new version.

Thanks!

-Travis

[stuckless]

My Recordings are all HDPVR H264 .ts files. I've been using ExoPlayer for the last week and here are my thoughts....

1. I get fewer "slo-mo" starts on ts file (ie, with ijk when I start a ts file I'll sometimes get slo-mo video... if I pause or skip ahead/bak it fixes it). I don't get that with Exo
2. I get lots of seek issues I can usually seek OK, but sometimes, after a seek, the timebar is wrong... this leads some other confusion around commercial skipping.

All in all... Exo has been performing well... just the TS seeking bothers me

[jptheripper]

ohh seek issues are concerning, is this the 30 second skip type seek? or comskip? both?

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by jptheripper

ohh seek issues are concerning, is this the 30 second skip type seek? or comskip? both?

It's really something with .ts files and ExoPlayer... sometimes when I skip ahead, ExoPlayer loses the correct "time" and I jump back (usually) to an older time.

[jptheripper]

Yeah i record alot of tv and its all ts files, so this is concerning. I have my hardware client coming tuesday.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by jptheripper

Yeah i record alot of tv and its all ts files, so this is concerning. I have my hardware client coming tuesday.

Well, IJKPlayer is very rock solid... i rarely have issues with it.

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by stuckless

Well, IJKPlayer is very rock solid... i rarely have issues with it.

+1. The ONLY thing that IJKPlayer doesn't do is bitstream audio. Other than that it never has any issues with any of my recordings.

[jptheripper]

Originally Posted by panteragstk

+1. The ONLY thing that IJKPlayer doesn't do is bitstream audio. Other than that it never has any issues with any of my recordings.

Audio passthrough is the number one requirement for me

[KarylFStein]

Do people not use the client much for remote viewing? I travel a bit and IJKPlayer is spotty with skipping, (and network speeds are not the issue). Should I instead be trying to better integrate with Emby (or Plex, but I prefer Emby)?

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by KarylFStein

Do people not use the client much for remote viewing? I travel a bit and IJKPlayer is spotty with skipping, (and network speeds are not the issue). Should I instead be trying to better integrate with Emby (or Plex, but I prefer Emby)?

I can't say that I use it... often, other than for testing... Skipping is going to be an issue, mainly, because it's being transcoded on the fly. Likely you are going to have much better success with streaming if you use Emby or Plex... since they have many more bodies working on the problems.

[cncb]

Originally Posted by jptheripper

Audio passthrough is the number one requirement for me

Me too. I also get some lip sync problems with IJKPlayer presumably due to the lack of passthrough.