[mythtv-users] What's the place-shifting state-of-the-art?

[Josh Rosenberg]

Hi, all! I've recently gotten more interested in place-shifting,
ideally with on-the-fly transcoding to accommodate typical home
internet bandwidth in the US, and I'm wondering what you might be
using. My use case would mainly to be to watch sports from my phone or
from my work computer. (For anything that's not sports, it's easy
enough to plan ahead and transcode and download the video file before
I'm ready to watch.) I've considered the following things:

* MythWeb ASX streaming (but it doesn't transcode and doesn't seem to
be able to play my files previously transcoded to MP4/H.264)

* MythTV Android client (but I can't seem to get HLS working right;
even if I do get it working, I think it's hard to seek with HLS and
therefore it will never be great for currently-recording programs like
sports; and it's Android only)

* Using Kodi as a frontend and streaming from there using a setup like
the one described at
https://thepcspy.com/read/remote-streaming-access-xbmc-kodi/ (but I
haven't been able to get it to work so far; needing a whole Kodi
installation seems like overkill; and I'm not sure this can do
realtime transcoding)

* Firing up VLC on my backend as a transcoder and streaming server
when I want it (but it's inelegant, requiring issuing a command line
command remotely; and it might also not be great at seeking)

* Wiring up a Slingbox to an additional MythTV frontend (but that's
expensive; it's probably hard to navigate MythTV menus through the
Slingbox interface; Slingbox has become horrible adware recently; and
really this whole option is just pretty silly...but I know it would
work)

Any thoughts? What have you been using that's working for you? Any tips?

Thanks!

Josh