[mythtv-users] HTTP progressive download possible?

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

On Saturday, 9 June 2012, George Nassas wrote:

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> 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.
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> 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.
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Http live streaming has never been restricted to playing only in web
browser. It's just a way to stream content. In fact for the time being; the
only web browser being able to play a m3u8 file directly is safari on ios.
Safari on a mac require the stream to be embedded in a HTML file.



Your understanding of it seems rather Incomplete.

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> 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.
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 Myth frontend as of 0.25 can play video file accessed across http://;
provided they are a direct link to a media file (such as mp4, avi etc)
Seeking is possible on some file; but not all.

In 0.26; myth frontend can also play HLS stream directly.

Being able to play HLS or video file straight over http was a requirement
to fully support AirPlay video.
Unfortunately, the ability to play HLS stream wasn't done on time for the
0.25 release.

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