[mythtv-users] Watch recording on iPad

[Karl Newman]

On Aug 5, 2014 7:04 PM, "Jean-Yves Avenard" <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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...
>
Thanks JY. I'll give it a shot. A complicating factor is that all our
recordings are mpeg-2 from a PVR 500. I know mpeg-2 is not as widely
supported on modern platforms as h264. Also, this is our first and only iOS
device (a gift...horse?) so I'm less familiar with it.

Thanks,

Karl
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