[mythtv] iPhone streaming implementation

[Rob Smith]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Chase Douglas
<chasedouglas.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am at a crossroad as I begin new work towards implementing an iPhone
> frontend. The new iPhone OS 3.0 announced this past week allows for easier
> streaming from MythTV. However, the implementation does not follow a
> standard that exists today, so I am wondering how amenable the MythTV devs
> are to incorporating code into MythTV just for the iPhone (though the
> standard will become open once the iPhone 3.0 OS is released in June, and it
> could be used by other devices if they so choose).

There currently doesn't exist a streaming framework in myth at all. We
do our 'streaming' of non-recorded media types by using ffmpeg or
similar. For example, the current iphone streaming in mythweb requires
a user job to pre-compress to mpeg4 and then it'll stream just fine.

If you are looking for the backend to re-encode and stream, it's
something I personally would love to have, and as for support, given
we use libavcodec, add support upstream for the specific encoder type
and it'll make it's way back to us. There's is a fair bit of work
involved for both pieces, so it's not going to be something simple if
you want it integrated in.