[mythtv] Web streaming video player module

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Jan 22 02:41:41 UTC 2008


On 01/21/2008 09:06 PM, brian boyle wrote:
> I am well aware of how much I hate commercials so I can only imagine 
> that everyone in the Myth world is the same. But your right we would 
> be prerolling an ad to monetize the effort. All our current web based 
> content is in FLV format so we may have to do something special. I 
> have no idea if VLC can deal with streamed FLV files. I had in my mind 
> that we could create an XML file once a day that is updated with movie 
> files and metadata.
>
> I should note that all our movies are short movies but we have over 
> two hundred online and we get a fair amount of web traffic. Just in 
> case it is important.

Note also that Myth is designed to allow the user to skip commercials 
and even if you were to put in code to prevent that for your 
feeds/recordings from your feeds or to prevent recording from your feed 
(LiveTV only), any user could disable that code since it is an 
open-source project.

Mike


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