[mythtv-users] iPhone Frontend Issues
Chase Douglas
chasedouglas.lists at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 18:07:40 UTC 2009
On Mar 18, 2009, at 1:36 PM, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
> Might it be possible, in lieu of being able to skip around in the
> stream, to use the commflagger/transcoder to split out segments
> into separate files and use them as a playlist? If the commflagger
> was perfect, every other segment would be an ad and an entire segment
> could just be skipped by the user saying "next file" on playback. If
> comflagging blew it on that ad, the user just plays. (If it blows it
> on when the ad starts/ends but gets it mostly right, well, you'd have
> to play the whole segment anyway or miss some of the show, but this
> way at least you -might- be able to skip some/all of the ads without
> having general-purpose seeking capability.)
I like this idea. I'm not sure how well it will work in practice, but
I'll try it out. My biggest concern with this approach is that what
would essential happen is at every commercial break the frontend would
exit the stream and reenter later on. This means the video player
interface would close, then reopen. When it reopens, it will need to
reestablish the stream buffer again, which I suppose it would have to
do anyways.
I guess the main drawback to this idea is that you will only be able
to seek within a given segment. If you are in the first segment of the
show, the player is only going to show the seek bar relative to that
segment. The user won't be able to seek to a later segment easily.
I think even with that drawback some users would like the commercial
skip support like this. I probably won't work on it at first, but in
the future I'll kick it around some and maybe make it an option for
those who know what they're doing.
Thanks,
Chase
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