Looking for Best Practice: Music Video Playback

by DollyB

Planning to switch over to AndroidTV (from Fire TV). Looking for a way to continuously play Music Videos with constant display of metadata. Shuffle and playlists would be great to have.

Currently I'm solving this via hand-programmed website, but since it's buggy and laggy, I'd want to go for native Android app. Would anyone be able to recommend a fitting application?

Specifications:

  • Video files on local NAS in mp4 format
  • Metadata constantly displayed in lower third overlay:
    • Title (first line)
    • Artist (second line, left)
    • Year (second line, right)
    • Album Cover (available as jpg graphic)
  • Possibility to specify audio gain per file individually to adjust volume
  • Back / forward / play / pause controls
  • Crop to fullscreen independent of video format
MapGuy11

Check Out Plex it puts your Movies, TV Shows, And Songs all into one interface and has trans coding to your devices outside the home. Link: https://plex.tv

indianacpl

See you've tried plex, may also try Emby which i prefer over plex. Kodi is also a option

pawel_the_barbarian

Maybe check coreelec.org, get a cheap box that will run Kodi natively and do all you need to do with add-ons and a skin of your preference (most of what you need done is ready out of the box, a skin will change the way you want to display metadata more to your liking.) Check out https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-n2-4gb-coreelec-edition/ and see if that fits your needs. I know that this is an Android TV forum, but aside from getting an Nvidia Shield to do what you want running Kodi there isn't really another box, as the rest are just buggy. Unless of course you want a Shield, then go for the new version one, the non pro, and run Kodi on it with having an Android TV back end with the dream of someone one day developing an app that you asked for.