Probably nobody wants to hear this solution, but it works pretty darn good for me. I have installed the myth codecs on my laptop, and installed the open-source Media portal PVR software (<a href="http://www.team-mediaportal.com/">
http://www.team-mediaportal.com/</a>) After setting up the video directory to look at my samba shared TV videos directory, and the Music to look at the samba shared Music, and DVD etc... the overall experience is pretty darn good. Granted, I cannot control live tv, nor can I schedule programs, etc, but scheduling is what Myth's web interface is so darn good at anyway.... So , hopefullly someone else would think this is a useful interface option for a windows machine trying to look as good as myth.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andy Foster</b> <<a href="mailto:fostandy@gmail.com">fostandy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
This question rears its ugly head every couple of months but I'm a little baffled by what is needed, minimally, <span id="st" name="st" class="st0">to</span> stream videos from myth.<br><br>Some people say they're able <span id="st" name="st" class="st0">
to</span> play simply by installing dsmyth, clicking on the
<a>myth://hostname:6543/xyz.mpg</a> link in the appropriate browser, and the media player of choice launches and starts <span id="st" name="st" class="st0">streaming</span>.<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 <span id="st" name="st" class="st0">windows</span> clients so that myweb simply provides a <a href="http://hostname/valid/path/to/files.mpg" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://hostname/valid/path/<span id="st" name="st" class="st0">to</span>/files.mpg</a> . When I click this, it prompts me <span id="st" name="st" class="st0">to</span> 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
<span id="st" name="st" class="st0">to</span> stream. If I put this uri directly into videolan, it works
<br><br>Both of these behaviours seem <span id="st" name="st" class="st0">to</span> be correct <span id="st" name="st" class="st0">to</span> 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 <span id="st" name="st" class="st0">to</span> pass the http:// uri <span id="st" name="st" class="st0">to</span> 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 <span id="st" name="st" class="st0">to</span> launch anything from a valid file:// uri), videolan on both client and server, but I would really like
<span id="st" name="st" class="st0">to</span> keep this minimal, as well as be able <span id="st" name="st" class="st0">to</span> use the media player of my choice.
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