[mythtv-users] MythWeb streaming guides?

[Pete Cap]

I'm not sure I was entirely clear in my post...

The issue has to do with remote clients (such as myself when I'm bored at work or travelling) playing video streams within the web browser than it has to do with grabbing video off a STB.  On my Mini (which runs Ubuntu and has VLC installed) the video starts playing after about 5 seconds (though the fast-forward/reverse controls are disabled, that's another issue).

In Windows, I get the following behavior:
- I can download (right click, save as) the files and they run in WMP, from the desktop, just fine--so there are no codec issues here.
- Attempting to stream them in Firefox brings up a screen that says "Video is loading..." and nothing happens after that.
- Attempting to stream them in IE7 brings up WMP.  WMP prompts for a username and password, and then when they are supplied, WMP says "Connecting..." and then nothing.
- Can load the URL in WMP.  Same results as above.

The windows box does have VLC installed as well as the VLC Plugin for firefox.  No dice.

I'm not sure how much of this has to do with configuring the client and how much of it has to do with mucking around with Apache to get it to stream the videos "correctly."

Any ideas?




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From: MrVining <myth-user-discussion at mrvining.com>
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Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 3:50:11 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb streaming guides?

I'm new to the linux side of things, but I've been grabbing MPEG2ts off my cable box for about 6 years now.  I have Mac OS X, and lots of flavors of Windblows and I have never came across a plug-in or codec that will play mpeg2 transport streams for WMP.

How about Windows Media Center?  WMC has come on all my versions of Vista so far, I haven't tried, but I bet you can associate the file thats downloaded with WMC.


On Feb 20, 2009, at 8:39 AM, Pete Cap wrote:

> All,
> 
> Can anyone point me to a good guide for setting up streaming video via MythWeb?
> 
> My HP mini can play the videos videos just fine because I use Firefox and VLC.  However, my work computer, which uses IE7 and WMP, cannot.
> Surely there is a way to get this to work since I'm only trying to play MPEGs and AVIs.
> 
> All of the solutions I have seen include stuff like "This assumes you are on the same network (why?)" or "You have to use Samba to get this to work" (why would I be using a remote web interface if I simply browse to the samba share?) or "You have to install VLC" (yeah, VLC is great, but I can't always control what is installed on the client).  There must be some way to configure the backend for this.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --Pete
> 
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