[mythtv-users] MythTV Is Now Forked As Torc

Eric Sharkey eric at lisaneric.org
Tue Feb 21 20:04:28 UTC 2012


On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:17 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
>> advanced much in reality.  It's still doing the same thing it did 9
>> years ago generally except better (VDPAU and storage pools for
>> example).  I'm OK with that though.  I am however disappointed by area
>> like streaming to phones, laptops, transcoding, etc are still woefully
>
>     "streaming" to other devices is primarily hung up on the fact that
> many of them aren't well equipped to deal with any TV recording or most
> other forms of video for that matter.

That's what content negotiation is for:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_negotiation

Ideally the mythTV protocol used to communicate between the backend
and frontend would include some form of content negotiation, and
perhaps the backend could generate transcoded content on the fly to
best fit the frontend's needs.  It can be done, it just hasn't been.

Eric


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