[mythtv] iPhone streaming implementation

[Chase Douglas]

On Mar 23, 2009, at 5:49 PM, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> * On Mon Mar 23, 2009 at 01:06:29PM -0400, Matt S. wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Chase Douglas
>> <chasedouglas.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mar 22, 2009, at 11:57 PM, Rob Smith wrote:
>>>> What's wrong with just adding/extending the current streaming in
>>>> mythweb? You can copy the flv module, add in the specific iphone
>>>> ffmpeg options and stream away.
>>>
>>> Mythweb can't do live tv. I'm looking for a solution that includes  
>>> live tv
>>> streaming. I want to be able to be on the 3G network and watch  
>>> sports games
>>> for instance.
>>>
>>
>> A great example is live news.  You never know when the next major  
>> news
>> story might break (think 9/11 type event), and where you'll be.  I
>> could see this being a great example of why you'd want to have live  
>> TV
>> in your pocket.
>
> Actually that's an different beast, that's an example of why you'd  
> want to
> immediately start a recording and then watch the in-progress recording
> instead of using LiveTV and having the LiveTV auto-expire code  
> automatically
> delete the file tomorrow.

This is another reason why I think streaming should be fully  
integrated into MythTV, or through the MythTV protocol somehow. A  
mythweb implementation *could* work, but not without severe limitations.