[mythtv-users] Request for help: Myth on-demand streaming to android device

[Richard Shaw]

I've made some progress just getting a video to stream, however, the
only player I've found for android that can handle rtsp streams,
VPlayer, doesn't appear to be using accelerated playback as it's quite
jerky even though I'm scaling it down to the native resolution and
only using 500kbps video bitrate. Script posted on the bottom.

Richard

---
stream-android.sh
---
#!/bin/bash

# specify path to vlc here
vlc=/usr/bin/vlc

$vlc \
--intf=lua \
 --lua-intf=http \
--lua-config="http={host='0.0.0.0:8080'}" \
--verbose=2 \
--http-album-art \
--audio-language=en --sub-language=en \
--audio-desync=-50 \
--no-sout-rtp-sap --sout-rtp-caching=2000 \
--sout-transcode-threads=4 --sout-transcode-high-priority \
--sout-keep \
--sout="#duplicate{ \
  dst='transcode{ \
    venc=x264{ \
      profile=baseline,level=3, \
      keyint=50,bframes=0,no-cabac,ref=1,no-interlaced, \
      vbv-maxrate=512,vbv-bufsize=256,aq-mode=0,no-mbtree, \
      partitions=none,no-weightb,weightp=0,me=dia,subme=0,no-mixed-refs,no-8x8dct,trellis=0
\
    }, \
    vcodec=h264,vb=512, \
    vfilter=canvas{width=480,height=320,aspect=480:320,padd}, \
    soverlay, \
    aenc=ffmpeg{ \
      aac-profile=low \
    }, \
    acodec=mp4a,ab=128,channels=2,audio-sync \
  }:gather:rtp{ \
    sdp=rtsp://0.0.0.0:5554/android.sdp,mp4a-latm \
  }', \
  dst='transcode{ \
    vcodec=null, \
    acodec=mp3,ab=160,channels=2 \
  }:gather:std{ \
    access=http,mux=raw,dst=0.0.0.0:8081 \
  }' \
}"