[mythtv] Web streaming video player module

[Albert Graham]

[ apologies if this messages gets top posted, just joined the list, so could not reply ]

Brian,

You could also include in the XML file you plan to provide the Start and End
 positions of all the ads, so that commercial flagging can be disabled for your productions,
 [this saves myth users resources] to allow easy skipping (and will be very Myth User friendly),
if people want to skip, they will, so make it easy for them, this will also give your company
a "good" reputation - providing the idea is not abused - e.g. skip ads but still flash advertisers
 logos for a second or two at the start and end of the ads. 

Knowing that I could skip the ads "perfectly" if I wanted to, would persuade me to watch a few and may not skip at all!

Also, you could address some of the issues that cause people to skip the ads in the first place for example, not using "dynamic range compression"? - 
insist that your advertisers don't mess with the users volume/sound as most "web"  users will skip the ads, if an ad annoys me for any reason me I will skip.

If your advertisers insist on using dynamic range compression you should add a field in your XML file that informs MythTV
 the amount to adjust the volume down in %percentage terms, these features are not in MythTV yet - you could put them in :)


Lastly, whats the website name?

Thanks.

Albert.

 





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.

Cheers.


Brian.

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