[mythtv-users] HTTP progressive download possible?

[George Nassas]

On 2012-06-08, at 10:50 PM, Erik Jensen wrote:

> I was really excited to try out the new HTTP streaming functionality in 0.25. After upgrading, I connected via telnet and typed 'play file http://whatever'. Sure enough, the video started playing. Awesome!

Am I reading this correctly? It sounds like you're trying to play streams with a mythfrontend & that's not the purpose of the feature.

HTTP streams are meant to be played through a web browser or a custom client like one of the android ones coming out or that ios app that's occasionally mentioned here.

If you can find the stream files and make them visible to a browser you'll have a much better experience. On a stock system they're under /var somewhere, sorry I don't know exactly where but you can do a find /var -name ''.m3u8'. It's best to define a "Streams" storage group on disks with a lot of space as streams get quickly pile up.

The underlying structure of HLS streams is they transcode video into a sequence of 10 second clips and your player downloads them sequentially unless you seek and then the player skips over to the clip you've jumped to. It's efficient and responsive.

- George
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