MrMC for TVOS Released

[bigoldboy]

This-is-great! Just watched the evening news from my NextPVR via MrMC on my Apple TV 4. Yes, I am bummed I can't have addons, but the PVR makes it wonderful, as well as all my movies, tv shows, concerts, and family videos. My wife "gets" the apple tv and this makes it wonderful. Thanks!!!!!

[ClementB]

There is a tiny typo in the App Store description - pass though (pass through)

[Samhain]

MRMC is just a Bed Player with Kofi Skin ,
Many Problem .
Video mkv - stop stop stop
Sound no Dts hd
Exit or shutdown Button - no
Atv4 pad not kompatible with MRMC
IPTV m3.u no fonktion

... 5,99,. Euro for what????

At this time the app is unusable for me

[loekf2]

There is a tiny typo in the App Store description - pass though (pass through)

So the minions at their Appstore app approval department don't have a spellingschecker ? Unbelievable.

More amazing, MrMC is now the #1 for paid apps, #1 for top grossing apps.

I see a lot of whining here, but people shouldn't forget the amazing effort the devs pulled off in 4-6 weeks by
stripping and fixing a messy code base, which never would result into an app meeting Apple's rules, into something
which actually works. It's an 1.0 version people, it will only get better. The devs also have to fight Apple's tooling
and API choices. I'm still amazed hardware accelerated decode is not supported in tvOS.

Still, I would recommend to extend the beta group beyond the 15 (I think it was) for the next release. My biggest wishes for 1.0.2:

- Passthru and decode of TrueHD and DTS-MA
- Better compatibility for (e.g. Harmony) IR remotes. In my case, I have mapped the fwd and ffwd etc buttons correctly on my Harmony Ultimate, but MrMC doesn't response. Workaround is to hit select and do it via the on-screen buttons.
- A quit button like on Android. However, it might be against Apple's rules which probably demand that apps stay inactive in memory when you go back to the home screen.
- Recently played files shown on top of the home screen .. if you you put MrMC in your top 5 apps.
- Not sure if the Kodi code-based is holy, but we need something else instead of the confusing levels for settings. It's very hard first-time to figure there are expert-level settings. Personally I would skip the levels and make expert default.
- Improved SMB access. Think I already mentioned this, if a NAS starts slow (e.g. out of sleep mode) you are bombarded with errors/warnings until the connection is made.
- Just plain unencrypted ISO support, up to UDF 2.6 ? You might run into a can of worms here, with menu's. If in doubt I would take the longest title (usually main movie) or allow you to skip back and forth between titles. For BD-like ISOs, you could just play the BDMV directory.
- I have no problems with the Kodi-like (XBMC) UI. I even hate the fuzzy gray UI from Infuse, Nastify etc. It's much denser and faster than the others. If you are willing to change (going to change), I would start to give the settings a re-thought.
- For HD formats, please make a choice between: 1) decode audio on ATV to 7.1 PCM, 2) decode "core" audio on ATV to 5.1 PCM, 3) passthru: send core stream, 4) passthru: send full HD stream. Wrt 1) and 2) you could of course also put the speaker layout setting from Kodi back. I have 5.1 speakers, but my receiver is 7.1. I usually let the receiver do the matrix processing for speaker mapping.

[jramskov]

"- Recently played files shown on top of the home screen .. if you you put MrMC in your top 5 apps."

I would probably prefer it to display recently added files instead. I rarely want to watch again what I have just watched.

As for the design, I'm pretty used to the Kodi interface, but I agree with those that says it doesn't really fit in on the Apple TV. I don't use it, but I think the Plex interface is better. Again, this is very early days and I very much prefer to have MrMC here now

[aeriqueke]

Davilla and others,

I think most has been set already: just great work, I hope Mrmc will give us all a great experience over the years to come. Ignore the haters

I do have a feature request :

On RPI2 I've always enjoyed a specific option thats boost the center channel audio when playing a 5.1 file on a 2.0 audio setup.

Is it possible to apply the patch for this ?

https://github.com/osmc/osmc/blob/c6ce6 ... nnel.patch

[kuroshirokun]

"- Recently played files shown on top of the home screen .. if you you put MrMC in

If would prefer what's on deck like the next episode of the tv shows I'm currently watching this with dts-hd pass through and 24p playback are the only reason I still have an Intel nuc with openelec

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I think apple should give you some money since this will boost their sales I gurantee it !
At least I have now pushed over 10 ppl to buy the apple tv 4

So This is awesome !

[davilla]

spread the word and hammer on the PR/Blog sites to promote MrMC. It is one way to help MrMC grow and keep spreading.

[Itzme1234]

Regarding what to show in the top shelf. There's room for 2 sections, Recently Added and Continue Watching. From there we should see a screen with ALL the metadata, description, IMDB or RT rating, reviews, and file specs, and From THERE we should be able to play the video.

I haven't been able to get any metadata except for the poster.