Fork of SageTV MiniClient for Android TV

[bigbill]

I have tried everything I can think of to add (change) the Fast Forward & Rewind times using the client on a Shield 2019 with their current remote.

There is what looks like a keyboard option if you hold the center button down for a bit, but when I click on that, no keyboard comes up.

Am I missing something obvious? Kind of hope so.

Thanks, Bill

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by bigbill

I have tried everything I can think of to add (change) the Fast Forward & Rewind times using the client on a Shield 2019 with their current remote.

There is what looks like a keyboard option if you hold the center button down for a bit, but when I click on that, no keyboard comes up.

Am I missing something obvious? Kind of hope so.

Thanks, Bill

Are you talking about the 'Detailed Setup/Customize/Multi Speed FF/RW options' menu? You can get to that just by touch-screen commands, but I'm not sure of a Shield's restrictions. If you hold the center button down, does the entire function overlay screen appear, the one that appears when you swipe-right on an Android phone for example?

[bigbill]

Center button causes pops up menu with all sorts of options. One looks like an icon of a keyboard. But nothing happens when I click on it. Yes, detailed setting, under the exact menu choice in the OP. -Bill

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by bigbill

Center button causes pops up menu with all sorts of options. One looks like an icon of a keyboard. But nothing happens when I click on it. Yes, detailed setting, under the exact menu choice in the OP. -Bill

Is there a SECOND icon that looks like a keyboard - it may be off to the right? There is on my screen. One works, one doesn't.

[jvl711]

Originally Posted by jvl711

Long story short, I have a VM of SageTV for Amazon to test the app against. Because of my Azure subscription expiring, the VM was shutdown, and when they went to test the app they were not able to connect the client to a server. I started the server back up and submitted the app again. Hopefully it will get approved. It is supposed to be available no later than 10/19. Hopefully it gets approved without any issues

Google app submissions are so easy, Amazon on the other had is a royal pain in the butt.

Josh

Amazon release is finally approved and live in the App Store.

Josh

[KeithAbbott]

Originally Posted by jvl711

Amazon release is finally approved and live in the App Store.

Josh

I can confirm, it looks like mine updated overnight. Thanks!

[drewg]

I'm starting to get paranoid that my HD300 will eventually fail, and I've been trying to make the Android TV Miniclient behave on my Firestick 4k max.

The problem I'm having is that I can only do playback via ijkplayer, and it does not do proper deinterlacing of 1080i MPEG2-PS video, so the playback looks janky, especially around motion. If I try to use exoplayer, it hangs and complains about max retries exceeded. I could have sworn I also saw it say something about audio. I tried to force ffmpeg for audio, but that didn't seem to help. Somebody else was complaining about what looks like the same thing a few months ago (though ijkplayer didn't work for him).

I'm able to play the same recording on Plex. It looks perfect, and does great deinterlacing. It looks basically as good as the HD300. From Plex's settings, it seems like it is doing direct play of the mpeg2-ps file, and using exoplayer.

Is there any trick I can do to get decent playback on the 4k stick?

In case it matters, I'm running server SageTV v9.2.2.268 on Linux

Thanks in advance for any help!

Drew

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by drewg

I'm starting to get paranoid that my HD300 will eventually fail, and I've been trying to make the Android TV Miniclient behave on my Firestick 4k max.

The problem I'm having is that I can only do playback via ijkplayer, and it does not do proper deinterlacing of 1080i MPEG2-PS video, so the playback looks janky, especially around motion. If I try to use exoplayer, it hangs and complains about max retries exceeded. I could have sworn I also saw it say something about audio. I tried to force ffmpeg for audio, but that didn't seem to help. Somebody else was complaining about what looks like the same thing a few months ago (though ijkplayer didn't work for him).

I'm able to play the same recording on Plex. It looks perfect, and does great deinterlacing. It looks basically as good as the HD300. From Plex's settings, it seems like it is doing direct play of the mpeg2-ps file, and using exoplayer.

Is there any trick I can do to get decent playback on the 4k stick?

In case it matters, I'm running server SageTV v9.2.2.268 on Linux

Thanks in advance for any help!

Drew

Did You update to the latest SageTVTranscoder plugin ? then try exoplayer ?

[gtallan]

I wonder if someone can help me with this - I'm using the sagetv 9.2.8, the current miniclient, have the current transcoder plugin (on a linux server), and have the extra transcoding settings added to sage.properties.

For the life of me I can't get exoplayer to play avi files. It's set for fixed mode, remuxing when needed, and when I try to play an avi file I can see ffmpeg running on the server with sensible-looking parameters - for example:

/opt/sagetv/server/ffmpeg -ss 146 -v 3 -y -threads 2 -sn -vsync 1 -async 100 -stdinctrl -i /var/media/somefile.avi -threads 5 -f matroska -vcodec copy -acodec copy -packetsize 1024 -aspect 4:3 -

However I always just get a ERROR_CODE_DECODING_FAILED error from exoplayer. Not just for one specific avi file; for any of them.

I feel sure I must be missing some very simple setting - would anyone have an idea what?

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by gtallan

I wonder if someone can help me with this - I'm using the sagetv 9.2.8, the current miniclient, have the current transcoder plugin (on a linux server), and have the extra transcoding settings added to sage.properties.

For the life of me I can't get exoplayer to play avi files. It's set for fixed mode, remuxing when needed, and when I try to play an avi file I can see ffmpeg running on the server with sensible-looking parameters - for example:

/opt/sagetv/server/ffmpeg -ss 146 -v 3 -y -threads 2 -sn -vsync 1 -async 100 -stdinctrl -i /var/media/somefile.avi -threads 5 -f matroska -vcodec copy -acodec copy -packetsize 1024 -aspect 4:3 -

However I always just get a ERROR_CODE_DECODING_FAILED error from exoplayer. Not just for one specific avi file; for any of them.

I feel sure I must be missing some very simple setting - would anyone have an idea what?

Are these old DIVX files you might need to use IJKPLAYER to play those.

[Deano]

I've just installed (side loaded) the latest miniclient on a Fire TV. I can get things to play just fine, except one format: H265 content.

The file plays fine on the main SageTV computer, but not on the FireTV; I simply get a black screen with no sound. The timer is counting, so it appears something is playing.

Any ideas? Help!

[gtallan]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

Are these old DIVX files you might need to use IJKPLAYER to play those.

I don't think that's the problem. If I use ffmpeg manually to remux the container alone to mkv, then they play fine after that.

[Deano]

UPDATE:

I've installed the FFmpeg Transcoder. The mini-client now will play the H265 content. Apparently that was the trick as SageTV was never written for H265 coding.

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by jvl711

Amazon release is finally approved and live in the App Store.

Josh

Hi. Is the MiniClient available at the Google Chromecast Google TV app store in Canada? I'm not finding it, but it could be an internet thing.

UPDATE - Found it, Different graphic than the U.S. Play Store?

[sic0048]

Originally Posted by tvmaster2

Hi. Is the MiniClient available at the Google Chromecast Google TV app store in Canada? I'm not finding it, but it could be an internet thing.

UPDATE - Found it, Different graphic than the U.S. Play Store?

EDIT - I actually don't think this is true anymore.... It seems that all the versions have the historic "blue" background now. I'm not sure if I was simply wrong in my assessment of the situation, or if the background was updated to be blue... Either way, you should ignore the original post below.......

Original Post:
The white background graphic is this "forked" version that has been developed over the last few years.

The blue background graphic is the original version that hasn't been updated in many years.

Given a choice, you definitely want to use the white background version!

[anotherhaus]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

Did You update to the latest SageTVTranscoder plugin ? then try exoplayer ?

I feel like this is an important piece of advice that should be on github readme and the first post in this thread.

I'd been having all kinds of playback problems - pixelated screen when playing after skipping and audio sounding like an old record player set to the wrong speed every few minutes. I saw this comment yesterday, updated the transcoding plugin on my server, and with (albeit limited) testing this morning it seems completely fixed.

[hvymetal]

I'm trying to get Closed Captions to work in the miniplayer. I'm using ExoPlayer and OpenDCT with HDHR. The CC works with HD200 extender but when I try to use it with Miniplayer's menu it says no CC/Subtitle track was found. Since it works on HD200 I know the CC track is not being removed by OpenDCT. Anyone got CC to work without exporting them with OpenDCT or Comskip?

OpenDCT settings:

consumer.ffmpeg.fix_stream=true
sagetv.device.1993331328.consumer=opendct.consumer.RawSageTVConsumerImpl

MiniPlayer Setting:
ExoPlayer Dynamic or Fixed Streaming

SageTV Server: Linux Docker
SageTVTranscoder(FFmpeg) Plugin: Installed
Media Format Parser Plugin:Installed


FFprobe Output

D:\_Camera> ffprobe -hide_banner -select_streams v \\192.168.10.175\sagemedia\tv\Nightline-48841286-0.ts
[mpeg2video @ 000001d6bf0c22c0] Invalid frame dimensions 0x0.
    Last message repeated 7 times
[mpegts @ 000001d6bf0be940] PES packet size mismatch
[mpegts @ 000001d6bf0be940] Packet corrupt (stream = 1, dts = 8491855810).
[mpegts @ 000001d6bf0be940] PES packet size mismatch
[mpegts @ 000001d6bf0be940] Packet corrupt (stream = 2, dts = 8491873090).
Input #0, mpegts, from '\\192.168.10.175\sagemedia\tv\Nightline-48841286-0.ts':
  Duration: 00:29:00.03, start: 92614.753444, bitrate: 6306 kb/s
  Program 1
    Stream #0:0[0x31]: Video: mpeg2video (Main) ([2][0][0][0] / 0x0002), yuv420p(tv, progressive), 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 
Closed Captions, 59.94 fps, 59.94 tbr, 90k tbn, 119.88 tbc
    Side data:
      cpb: bitrate max/min/avg: 17588800/0/0 buffer size: 7995392 vbv_delay: N/A
    Stream #0:1[0x34]: Audio: ac3 (AC-3 / 0x332D4341), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), fltp, 384 kb/s
    Stream #0:2[0x35]: Audio: ac3 (AC-3 / 0x332D4341), 48000 Hz, mono, fltp, 96 kb/s

D:\_Camera>

Also note the CC also do not work with the orginal windows SageTV placeshifter or client or Windows MediaPlayer. It does work in AnyDVD and VLC.

[hvymetal]

I got CC working on one channel. For some reason it only works with PBS channel. It does not work with Fixed Streaming or Use OpenGL UI. If you no not use the working settings below on a working stream the MiniPlayer menu icon for Subtitle/CC will show a message that is there are none found or will not show CC text.

Working settings
Default Player: ExoPlayer
Streaming Mode: Dynamic
Use OpenGL UI: OFF (On it allows to select CC but does not show text on screen)

When it works go to the MiniPlayer menu and click the Subtitle/CC icon and it will show the following items:

Subtitle/ClosedCaptions

OFF
en(CEA608)
en(CEA708)

Here is the output of ffprobe of a working stream from HDHR using OPENDCT

D:\_Camera>ffprobe -hide_banner \\192.168.10.175\sagemedia\tv\PBSNewsHour-48853583-0.ts
[mpeg2video @ 0000020bb2cf2180] Invalid frame dimensions 0x0.
    Last message repeated 42 times
[mpegts @ 0000020bb2cee880] PES packet size mismatch
[mpegts @ 0000020bb2cee880] Packet corrupt (stream = 1, dts = 6899076437).
[mpegts @ 0000020bb2cee880] PES packet size mismatch
[mpegts @ 0000020bb2cee880] Packet corrupt (stream = 2, dts = 6899076437).
[mpegts @ 0000020bb2cee880] PES packet size mismatch
[mpegts @ 0000020bb2cee880] Packet corrupt (stream = 3, dts = 6899076437).
Input #0, mpegts, from '\\192.168.10.175\sagemedia\tv\PBSNewsHour-48853583-0.ts':
  Duration: 01:00:00.22, start: 73057.204856, bitrate: 5703 kb/s
  Program 3
    Stream #0:0[0x31]: Video: mpeg2video (Main) ([2][0][0][0] / 0x0002), yuv420p(tv, top first), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 
Closed Captions, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 90k tbn, 59.94 tbc
    Side data:
      cpb: bitrate max/min/avg: 17598000/0/0 buffer size: 7995392 vbv_delay: N/A
    Stream #0:1[0x34](eng): Audio: ac3 (AC-3 / 0x332D4341), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), fltp, 384 kb/s
    Stream #0:2[0x35](spa): Audio: ac3 (AC-3 / 0x332D4341), 48000 Hz, mono, fltp, 96 kb/s
    Stream #0:3[0x36](por): Audio: ac3 (AC-3 / 0x332D4341), 48000 Hz, mono, fltp, 96 kb/s

[phelme]

Originally Posted by gtallan

I wonder if someone can help me with this - I'm using the sagetv 9.2.8, the current miniclient, have the current transcoder plugin (on a linux server), and have the extra transcoding settings added to sage.properties.

For the life of me I can't get exoplayer to play avi files. It's set for fixed mode, remuxing when needed, and when I try to play an avi file I can see ffmpeg running on the server with sensible-looking parameters - for example:

?

been using Plex more for playback these days, because I seem to have growing issues with various containers failing to play on the HD300's and the Android client. Not sure why things like AVI's and some MP4's are now failing. Also had to turn off the 5.1 recording on the HD-PVR's with DirecTV as the SageTV clients would sometimes balk on the TS recordings (likely malformed headers from the Hauppauge drivers when the recordings initially start, seen it before).

Plex just plays everything without a hitch. :|

[nyplayer]

Watching 4K on Sage TV Live....