[mythtv-users] Strreaming Mythtv to Android device?

[Jeff]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Glenn Harris <gharris at eklo.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Colin Cross <mythtv at colincross.com>
> wrote:
> > On 09/29/2009 09:12 AM, Mike Dent wrote:
> >> Has anybody looked in to this yet? It would be nice to have a myth
> >> frontend which ran on android :)
> >
> > I have an Android app I did a while ago that sort of works.  The main
> > limitation is that I can't find any way to convert Myth recordings into
> > hinted 3gp tracks for streaming on the fly.  I can only use a 2 pass
> process
> > to transcode a finished recording into 3gp format and run MP4Box -hint on
> it
> > to add the hint track.
> >
> > My solution used a Django web application to provide an xml interface to
> the
> > Myth database.  Selecting a recording would start a transcoding to 3gp if
> > necessary, or stream it if it was already transcoded.  I also modified
> the
> > media player widget in the Android app to show commercial breaks on the
> > progress bar and also skipping commercials.
> >
> > The Django app needs to be replaced with something more standardized, and
> I
> > have to add more configuration options and fix some bugs before I can
> > release anything.
>
> I got my Verizon Droid on Wednesday... ;-)   So I'm interested in this now
too.

I've got the Droid, and Adobe is supposed to be releasing Flash 10 for it
any day now, so if nothing else, hpefully the 'built-in' FlowPlayer
streaming in MythWeb will work once that finally happens.

It would be nice to have a 'generic' application that would run on more
Android platforms...

J-e-f-f-A
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