[mythtv-users] streaming to windows (directly through myth)

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Mon Jan 16 15:54:55 UTC 2006


Andy Foster wrote:
> This question rears its ugly head every couple of months but I'm a 
> little baffled by what is needed, minimally, to stream videos from myth.
>
> Some people say they're able to play simply by installing dsmyth, 
> clicking on the myth://hostname:6543/xyz.mpg link in the appropriate 
> browser, and the media player of choice launches and starts streaming.
>
> I don't understand how they do this at all. This is the myth protocol, 
> and thats the mythbackend address, but how does their media player 
> understand the myth:// uri? As I understand it in this case the media 
> player is basically being launched with the uri as an argument. I have 
> tried this with wmp, media player classic and videolan client, none of 
> them comprehend the myth:// uri, and my backend log shows no access 
> attempts.
>
> As an alternative I tried disabling the url rewriting for windows 
> clients so that myweb simply provides a 
> http://hostname/valid/path/to/files.mpg . When I click this, it 
> prompts me to download it. I can download and then watch it without 
> problems (unless the file is over 2gb, but thats another matter), but 
> considering the sizes involved I'd prefer to stream. If I put this uri 
> directly into videolan, it works
>
> Both of these behaviours seem to be correct to me, but are 
> unfortunately not what I want. So how do I either:
> 1. make the media players understand the myth protocol?
> 2. make my browser (firefox) allow me to pass the http:// uri to the 
> program of my choosing?
>
> I understand there are a lot of workarounds for this, including samba 
> shares (I've tried this but similarly have not been able to launch 
> anything from a valid file:// uri), videolan on both client and 
> server, but I would really like to keep this minimal, as well as be 
> able to use the media player of my choice.
MythStreamTV (not so great on the minimal side, but...)

Mike


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