Fork of SageTV MiniClient for Android TV

[jvl711]

Hi All,

I am about to do a new release and I wanted to get some feedback before I pull the trigger. This release will install along side of the production version, so you do not have to worry about it messing up your current setup up. It has a different name with "(DEBUG)" on the end of it.

Link: https://nextcloud.joshandmonique.com...Rg46PBBXQkGSFQ

Here is the changelist

- Made exoplayer playback error message more descriptive
- Added retry on recoverable playback error
- Disabled remux settings when stream mode is not fixed
- Changed the method for getting version name and version code
- Modified Jenkins local copy to publish changelist and name to directory
- Added code for a Subtitle/Closed Caption selection list from the Navigation window
- Rewrote the Android Media Session logic so that it can control playback for ExoPlayer and IJKPlayer.

Note: The closed captions only work if the livetv is not transcoded/remux or altered in anyway. ExoPlayer is very particular about how the closed captions are presented and seems to not work if everything is not perfec :/

[hvymetal]

Originally Posted by jvl711

Hi All,

I am about to do a new release and I wanted to get some feedback before I pull the trigger. This release will install along side of the production version, so you do not have to worry about it messing up your current setup up. It has a different name with "(DEBUG)" on the end of it.

Thanks for the update. I started testing last night. The retry works great....previous I had to FF/RW to get it to retry. Also the descriptive error can be helpful for future troubleshooting. I still see audio sync problems sometimes when you do large jumps like a commercial skip. To get it back in sync I have to FF/RW. This happens both using dynamic and fixed transcoding.

No matter what I tried I could not get the CC to display. I have tried tunning using native SageTV HDHR support and OpenDCT copy tuner with all MiniClient transcoding off. Both tunning methods will show CC with a HD200. I can get CC working with OpenDCT by extracting CC and using subtitles but the display in SageTV is not the same as native CC. It show subtitles in smaller font and in the middle of the picture compared to CC. Does anyone know how to adjust appearance of subtitles?

[Zogg]

I will try the debug version when I can, but in the meantime I just discovered that Exoplayer is now working on my Fire TV 4K sticks. In the past I had to run IJKplayer, but I pulled a new stick out of the box and gave it a shot and Exoplayer works fine.

This is with app v1.10.1 and Fire OS 6.2.8.1 on one stick and 6.2.8.7 on another.

[jvl711]

Version 1.11.0 is live in Amazon and Google.

Changelog is accessible here: https://github.com/OpenSageTV/sagetv...r/CHANGELOG.md

Thanks,
Josh

[hb4]

Originally Posted by jvl711

Version 1.11.0 is live in Amazon and Google.

Thanks,
Josh

Just tried this version on Firestick with ChannelsDVR as a source, playing back a recording that was having seeking issues yesterday and this one seems a little better; I am still seeing FF presses jumping forward and them immediately back to where the press started from, and no 'large button' short press action. Long press seems OK, but not predictable.

Is there some magic combination of settings that might affect this? Another issue may be the signal level that Channels (with TV Everywhere) sees on their experimental local TVE channels; could this affect FF/RW?

[Eternal]

is it possible to add the newer transcoding options such as higher bitrate and resolution into the placeshifter client?

since its still stuck at 2000kbps and 480p

[sic0048]

This has been a "problem" that I have had with the MiniClient. Whenever I exit the program by going to the "home " screen of the Android software, if I go back into the SageTV Miniclient, about 75% of the time the menus will have garbled characters. The core of the software works and videos still play (if you can figure out the menu to select them), but the menus are totally unreadable. I have to "force close" the app and reopen it to fix this issue.

If I "exit" sage TV via the SageTV main menu, this problem never appears.

Obviously there is some sort of corruption occurring when the app is not closed properly. Does anyone else experience this bug? Any chance that this bug can be tracked down and fixed? I'd be happy to provide logs or other information.