Wow! I am going to implement this over the weekend. For those people who are less savvy, what will it take to get this functionality on the development roadmap?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Jeff volckaert</b> <<a href="mailto:jvolckaert@gmail.com">jvolckaert@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;">
On 11/8/06, Michael Tiller <<a href="mailto:michael.tiller@gmail.com">michael.tiller@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Is there a way to do this without the user job? In other words, do the<br>> encoding on the fly? Also, I didn't understand the necessity to strip the
<br>> commercials (what is a B-frame?). The commercial flagging isn't 100% so I<br>> prefer to skip rather than remove the commercials (just in case).<br>><br>> It seems like this would be a fabulous extension to MythWeb (especially if
<br>> you could make it do the encoding on the fly). Any chance (and interest)<br>> for merging it into MythWeb?<br>><br>> --<br>> Mike<br><br>I don't know anyway to kick off the mencoder via PHP. It takes about
<br>15-20 mins to encode an hour long video so it would certainly work.<br>The B-frame issue is just something I saw as a problem with mencoder<br>and noticed that transcode strips them out anyway. If you just did<br>the lossless transcoding without commercial skip you would get the
<br>same stripping. I haven't tried transcoding an original file to see<br>if it bombs.<br><br>I like the idea of transcoding the files to separate directory under<br>apache and having the small php app that displays the flv filenames.
<br>That way I don't have to use mythtweb or give access to mythweb if<br>someone else wants to watch the videos. It's just VERY clean and<br>simple.<br><br>BTW, As Stuart pointed out there is a way to flash video under Mythweb
<br>from the Wiki. It's very similar in that it does a user job to<br>transcode (via ffmpeg instead of mencoder) and shows how to change<br>Mythweb to link to it.<br><br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Stream_mythtv_recordings_from_mythweb_using_flash_video">
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