[mythtv-users] Ipod Touch youtube player
Per Åge Sørvik
per.aage at gmail.com
Wed Oct 3 06:01:09 UTC 2007
2007/10/3, Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com>:
> On Oct 2, 2007, at 7:17 PM, Chris Isip wrote:
>
> > I am seriously considering buying an ipod touch and was wondering
> > if anybody in the list have tried any integration with mythtv.
> > It shouldn't be that hard to transcode videos so it will be
> > playable on the ipod touch. I have not looked into this yet
> > though but there are howtos everywhere in the net. My interest is
> > in the youtube player since there is no flash support in Safari and
> > therefore mythweb with real time flash encoding (should?) will not
> > work. It would be interesting to know how the youtube player
> > works. I was wondering how it communicates with youtube.com
> > (http? perhaps). If so would it be possible to send it a fake
> > youtube feed that contains a mythtv playlist transcoded to h264?
> > Perhaps achieve this with some sort of squid proxy redirect or some
> > iptables magic. Does the list have any insight into this?
>
> No, the YouTube link is hard-coded. You can only play back or search
> for videos on YouTube's site. The best chance for integration is
> myth2ipod. It actually works quite well and the video looks amazing.
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