This question rears its ugly head every couple of months but I'm a little baffled by what is needed, minimally, to stream videos from myth.<br><br>Some people say they're able to play simply by installing dsmyth, clicking on the
<a href="myth://hostname:6543/xyz.mpg">myth://hostname:6543/xyz.mpg</a> link in the appropriate browser, and the media player of choice launches and starts streaming.<br><br>I don't understand how they do this at all. This is the myth protocol, and thats the mythbackend address, but how does their media player understand the myth:// uri? As I understand it in this case the media player is basically being launched with the uri as an argument. I have tried this with wmp, media player classic and videolan client, none of them comprehend the myth:// uri, and my backend log shows no access attempts.
<br><br>As an alternative I tried disabling the url rewriting for windows clients so that myweb simply provides a <a href="http://hostname/valid/path/to/files.mpg">http://hostname/valid/path/to/files.mpg</a> . When I click this, it prompts me to download it. I can download and then watch it without problems (unless the file is over 2gb, but thats another matter), but considering the sizes involved I'd prefer to stream. If I put this uri directly into videolan, it works
<br><br>Both of these behaviours seem to be correct to me, but are unfortunately not what I want. So how do I either:<br>1. make the media players understand the myth protocol?<br>2. make my browser (firefox) allow me to pass the http:// uri to the program of my choosing?
<br><br>I understand there are a lot of workarounds for this, including samba shares (I've tried this but similarly have not been able to launch anything from a valid file:// uri), videolan on both client and server, but I would really like to keep this minimal, as well as be able to use the media player of my choice.
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