[mythtv-users] HTTP progressive download possible?

Craig Treleaven ctreleaven at cogeco.ca
Sat Jun 9 20:47:13 UTC 2012


At 6:01 AM +1000 6/10/12, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
>On Saturday, 9 June 2012, George Nassas wrote:
>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.
>
>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.

Playback on iOS is pretty cool, too!  I've tested on an iPhone IIgs 
and orginal iPad (IOW, older slower iOS devices) and it works very 
nicely.  Both of these are running iOS 5.1.1, the latest.  I'm 
serving from my experimental OS X backend, built with MacPorts.  If 
HLS just had 'nice' names instead of 1691_2012060611:30:00.mpg it 
would be pretty much immediately useful.

Re Safari on OS X, is there an example of the required html 
somewhere?  Just curious; it is easy enough to run the OS X frontend.

I'm also confused why the backend web page insists that JW Player 
ought to be installed.  What does it add to the party?  It seems it 
is supposed to go on the server but I have no idea where relative to 
the myth backend.

Craig
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