[mythtv] Android companion application for Mythweb / API for Mythweb

[Robert McNamara]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Daniel Frey <dan at mythtvcast.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Daniel Frey <dan at mythtvcast.com> wrote:
>> > I am really digging how the services api is coming. ?I see a lot of
>> > potential for mobile apps. ?It will be nice with the Video service api
>> > to,
>> > for instance, video my kids and have it upload right to my mythtv
>> > backend
>> > from my phone.
>>
>> There's no upload facility yet, but it's definitely a possibility to add
>> one.
>
>
> There is an AddVideo api in the Video service api.

I know, I wrote it ;)

It adds a video already present on the drive to the DB.

> I am guessing the videos will still have to be transcoded to another format
> to make them available on mobile devices (i.e. mp4 or amr).  The MPEG2
> recordings would not be available to play native on a mobile platform.
>

Generally true.  More importantly for full featured playback would be
chunking/rolling playlists/HTTP Live Streaming.

Robert