[mythtv-users] MobileMyth Web Frontend Released!

Michael Watson michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au
Fri Jan 4 22:42:04 UTC 2013


On 4/01/2013 1:31 PM, Jon Heizer wrote:
> Welcome everyone!  I am finally at a point where I am ready to release 
> the first public version of MobileMyth (http://www.mobilemyth.net/). 
>  It is a web based MythTV frontend designed to work on mobile devices 
> taking advantage of the HLS streaming.  This all started a few weeks 
> ago as a way for my wife to be able to have her tv shows available 
> while feeding our new born on multiple devices.  I wanted something 
> that was easy for her to use and I had the ability to easily fix/upgrade.
>
> As of this point, recording and video stream has been implemented. 
>  Recordings can be viewed by date or show.  Organizing Videos into sub 
> folders have not been implemented.  I tried to use cover/fan art to 
> make it all look a little nicer. Like the ipad app, HLS is highly 
> supported on ios while at the same time android requires a 3rd party 
> player like Dice.  My Galaxy S3 with the latest update can play the 
> stream in the native player though.
>
> The site is written in asp.net <http://asp.net> but is fully supported 
> under mono (and that is how I run it).  You can find the install 
> instructions here 
> http://www.mobilemyth.net/index.php/install-instructions/ and will see 
> installing it looks just like installing a php based site.  You just 
> have to install mono like you would php.  All configuration of the 
> site itself is via browser.
>
> I have uploaded a handful of screenshots to the project's site. 
> http://www.mobilemyth.net/ So you can see the basics.
>
> I hope you find this useful and you can expect more updates over the 
> coming weeks.  After 9+ years of enjoying MythTV I hope this project 
> is my way of giving something back to the community.
>
> Jon Heizer
>
Well done.  Install was easy and painless, and it worked first time.  I 
had my doubts watching the large list of dependencies for mono where 
installing
Fantastic.  Works well.

Does it have the ability to show the files already transcoded?  So you 
can easily come back to something you were watching before.
Do the transcoded files get cleaned up automatically, or do they need to 
be managed?

Developers, as more frontends emerge that take advantage of the HLS 
streaming, it would be ideal if the transcode jobs ran through the 
jobqueue, so slave backends take on some of the transcoding work, 
possibly with a higher priority than user jobs and transcoding.

Michael Watson


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