[mythtv-users] The video format served by MythTV

[Janusz S. Bień]

On Thu, Jul 11 2019 at  9:17 -04, Jay Harbeston wrote:
>  On Jul 11, 2019, at 8:38 AM, Janusz S. Bień <jsbien at mimuw.edu.pl> wrote:
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>  On Thu, Jul 11 2019 at  6:11 +02, Janusz S. Bień wrote:
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>  On Wed, Jul 10 2019 at 18:12 +02, Janusz S. Bień wrote:
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>  [...]
>
>  A moment ago I asked Oculus about the formats supported by Gallery.
>
>  Oculus responded quite quickly: the supported formats are listed at
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>  https://support.oculus.com/164308327569416/#faq_164308327569416
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>  namely
>
>     mp4 m4v 3gp 3g2
>     webm mkv wmv avi
>
> Searching for handbrake on http://www.mythtv.org/wiki , there are several solutions for converting video.
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> The caveat to these solutions is that these are tools that can be used to convert, but you must come up with the
> Steps required to do ‘automatic’ conversions.  
>
> With that said, you can define custom jobs within mythtv that can be performed on recorded material.
>
> All the answers you need can be found on the wiki above!  

I believe you, but the anwers are not sufficiently explicit for me.


On Thu, Jul 11 2019 at 17:50 +01, John Pilkington wrote:

[...]

> I hadn't heard of this device until I saw your posts, so I may be
> mistaken.  But I suspect that you may need to work from
>
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming_Server
>
> which appears to use JW Player to do the transcoding.

If I understand correctly, JW Player requires a monthly subsciption.

Last but not least, an old problem with WebFrontend returned and I have
to concentrate now on fixing it.

Best regards

Janusz

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