[mythtv-users] mythbackend -> iPod Touch

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Oct 1, 2008, at 1:40 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:

>> So many ways.
>> http://www.google.com/search?q=mythtv+ipod
>
> Maybe I'm missing the point. If I am please let me know. (gnetly///)
>
> I went that way before I wrote to the list. Everything I'm finding
> *seems* to be for older, sort of static iPods. Convert the video,
> transfer it over USB, watch it. The iPod Touch is just a portable
> device that's always on our network. Conceptually it's just another
> machine that runs a browser & applications. I don't want to convert
> anything before it gets watched on the device. I just want to stream
> it like I was streaming to my PC and let it do whatever is required to
> format it to its screen. If that doesn't work, because maybe the
> device doesn't have enough processing power, then I'll look into
> conversion. The best interface for me would be a browser interface
> into the recorded programs list and then click and play.
>
> Thanks for the ideas.

Yeah, you are missing the point that the iPod can only play back  
specific quicktime formats natively so everything else will need to be  
converted to that format which is what everything in the google  
results does.

Someone made a way to convert the files on the fly and stream over  
mythweb, but I never got it to work.
The info for that is here: http://chriscarey.com/projects/mythtv/iphone/