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

Torbjörn Jansson torbjorn.jansson at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 17:20:30 UTC 2006


2006/1/30, Torbjörn Jansson <torbjorn.jansson at gmail.com>:
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> 2006/1/16, Andy Foster <fostandy at gmail.com>:
> >
> > 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.
>
>
> first, what version of mythtv do you use and what version of the dsmyth
> filter do you use?
> i asume you want to stream mpeg files? if so is it from a dvb card or a
> pvr card?
>
> if you want to use the dsmyth filters to stream things you must make sure
> the mysql settings in the config program is setup properly and that it
> works.
>

one  thing i forgot, the dsmyt filters does not contain any mpeg4 or mpeg2
decoder, that must be installed separately.
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