[mythtv-users] mythweb launching/streaming audio/video files?

[Alan Snyder]

I agree that file:// links are trivial on the server
side if all of the
clients involved have /video mounted in the same
place.  /path/to/video
would be part of the mythweb config.

The harder part is on the client side: mplayer patch
for Linux clients,
DirectShow filter for Windows, etc.  

Another option would be for the client to have
mythtranscode's /fifodir
mounted, though the network bandwidth for raw video is
probably a killer.


-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of
Tim Harvey
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 1:25 PM
To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] mythweb
launching/streaming audio/video files?

Isn't a simple step to allow MythWeb to launch the
files which would
have nothing to do with streaming?  I can probably add
this (although
I'm not familiar with php scripting) but I'm not of
the best way to
handle configuring and persistently storing the
particular web client's
'prefix' to the files.  I suppose that they can be
stored as settings in
the db indexed by client ip.

Personally, in my setup I don't see an advantage of
streaming at all.
I'm using Myth in a home environment where I may have
up to 3 myth
frontends running and a multi-tuner backend.  I don't
see any reason to
stream when bandwidth on the home network isn't an
issue and none of the
frontends would really be watching the same thing
simultaneously.  My
filestore is a separate NAS box with 900GB of Raid5
storage and all home
systems are SMB/NAS attached.  Keep in mind I'm only
thinking of
web-initiated playback of stored video's, and music. 
I realize that
there may be some issues with LiveTV (do I recall
someone saying that
LiveTV was streamed through a socket to the frontend
vs the frontend
opening the output file?).  Recorded programs don't
seem that they would
be a problem as they are MPEG2 with a different
filename and I can watch
them fine with my windows based players (am I missing
something here as
well?  If you have cut's in the file will that choke
an MPEG2 player?).

Again though, I'm mostly wanting to be able to launch
an audio playlist
or one of the 250+ DivX movies I've got on my NAS
using the mythweb
frontend.

Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Chris Petersen
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 9:33 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb
launching/streaming audio/video
files?
> 
> > Just some thoughts... it seems like mythweb could
be a full featured
> > 'cross-platform' UI to MythTV if it could launch
files.  Perhaps
this is
> > being worked on and I've just missed the threads.
> 
> I've always wanted mythweb to be able to do this
kind of thing, but
> until there is a way to actually stream the content
in real-time, in a
> format that a browser would understand, it's kind of
pointless.
> 
> Having a separate process, like mythstream, would be
a better idea.
> Then mythweb could just forward to a URI for the
streaming server, and
> that server can do what it needs to for accessing
files, transcoding,
> etc.
> 
> -Chris
> 
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