<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 2012-06-08, at 10:50 PM, Erik Jensen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">I was really excited to try out the new HTTP streaming functionality in 0.25. After upgrading, I connected via telnet and typed 'play file<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://whatever/">http://whatever</a>'. Sure enough, the video started playing. Awesome!<br></span></blockquote></div><br><div>Am I reading this correctly? It sounds like you're trying to play streams with a mythfrontend & that's not the purpose of the feature.</div><div><br></div><div>HTTP streams are meant to be played through a web browser or a custom client like one of the android ones coming out or that ios app that's occasionally mentioned here.</div><div><br></div><div>If you can find the stream files and make them visible to a browser you'll have a much better experience. On a stock system they're under /var somewhere, sorry I don't know exactly where but you can do a find /var -name ''.m3u8'. It's best to define a "Streams" storage group on disks with a lot of space as streams get quickly pile up.</div><div><br></div><div>The underlying structure of HLS streams is they transcode video into a sequence of 10 second clips and your player downloads them sequentially unless you seek and then the player skips over to the clip you've jumped to. It's efficient and responsive.</div><div><br></div><div>- George</div></body></html>