Hi<br><br>On Saturday, 9 June 2012, George Nassas wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><blockquote type="cite">
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</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></blockquote><div><br></div><div>?? </div><div>Http live streaming has never been restricted to playing only in web browser. It's just a way to stream content. In fact for the time being; the only web browser being able to play a m3u8 file directly is safari on ios. Safari on a mac require the stream to be embedded in a HTML file. </div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Your understanding of it seems rather Incomplete. <span></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><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></blockquote><div><br></div><div> Myth frontend as of 0.25 can play video file accessed across http://; provided they are a direct link to a media file (such as mp4, avi etc)</div><div>Seeking is possible on some file; but not all. </div>
<div><br></div><div>In 0.26; myth frontend can also play HLS stream directly. </div><div><br></div><div>Being able to play HLS or video file straight over http was a requirement to fully support AirPlay video. </div><div>
Unfortunately, the ability to play HLS stream wasn't done on time for the 0.25 release. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote>