[mythtv-users] Watch recording on iPad

Jean-Yves Avenard jyavenard at gmail.com
Wed Aug 6 02:04:40 UTC 2014


On 6 August 2014 11:41, Karl Newman <siliconfiend at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a surprisingly difficult time answering the seemingly simple
> question: What is the best (free) way to watch a recording on my iPad,
> streamed over my local network? I thought HLS was supposed to handle that,
> but I played around with mythbackend's internal server (<LAN IP>:6544) on
> the HLS page and couldn't seem to get anything to queue up. Further, it
> wanted me to install JWPlayer, but when I clicked "Install" Safari just
> tried to download a zip file and predictably failed. I see the Torc app in
> the app store and I presume that still works with 0.27+, but I only want to
> watch one recording at a time occasionally, without having to futz around
> copying the file over USB or whatever.

VLC and using the UPnP browser works fine for me.

Playback starts instantly , which is much better than using other
player that attempt them to transcode them first...


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