donaldsmith2060
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8 years ago Check out how dvblink does this and the news that in android n you'll be able to schedule and view recordings. They have a beta backend for the tif framework.
Open Hedda opened 8 years ago
donaldsmith2060
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8 years ago Check out how dvblink does this and the news that in android n you'll be able to schedule and view recordings. They have a beta backend for the tif framework.
Fleker
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8 years ago Yeah having support for Live Channels would be fantastic. Would it make sense to have it as a PVR plugin? It would be great for many of the video plugins to be able to automatically play as a channel in Live Channels.
You can look at my library http://github.com/fleker/ChannelSurfer which removes a lot of the TV-input framework boilerplate.
Adding in DVR support on Android N would also be great down the line.
qzem
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6 years ago Is there anything new on this issue. I am also searching for a way to use native DVB-C receiver on Philips Android TV with Kodi
sammarbella
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6 years ago Waiting for Oreo...
Hedda
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6 years ago What's new in Android TIF APIs on Android Oreo? Android 8.0 = API level 26, 8.1 = Android API level 27
Fleker
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6 years ago AFAIK the TIF API did not change in API 26 or 27.
Appently from Android 5.0 (API level 21) the OS have an integrated TV Input Framework (TIF) with built-in tuner input support.
@koying Wondering if it would be possible (and a good idea) to make a PVR Client Addon for SPMC (and Kodi for Android) with native support for Android TIF?
Or would a better architectual design be to add support for Android TIF into a PVR backend like Tvheadend instead and port that to run as a service on Android?
http://source.android.com/devices/tv/ http://developer.android.com/training/tv/tif/index.html https://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/tv/package-summary.html https://github.com/googlesamples/androidtv-sample-inputs
Point is it would be nice to have a PVR Client Addon for Kodi's PVR API that can access Android TIF and TV tuners to watch live televsion received from a broadcast signal via antenna or cable/satellite.
There are now loads of Android boxes out there that have integrated TV tuners, like example WeTek Play / Play2 series, but there is today not possible to access local TV tuners (built-in or connected directly via USB adapter).
Just imagine how awesome it would be for each Android box with SPMC/Kodi to be able to function as a standalone set-top box that can receieve local broadcast television directly to not have to rely on an external PVR server or IPTV.