[mythtv] Mythweb and Windows Media Player over Samba

Andy Lintner mythtv at beowulfe.com
Fri May 14 13:37:38 EDT 2004


>From my experience, and I may have it set up all wrong on my machine, using
the myth:// URL still does not enable the seek bar inside of Windows Media
Player. With some other media players, I can seek backwards, but still
cannot move forwards.

-Andy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Torbjörn Jansson" <torbjorn.jansson at mbox200.swipnet.se>
To: "'Development of mythtv'" <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 12:50 PM
Subject: RE: [mythtv] Mythweb and Windows Media Player over Samba


> mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org <> wrote:
> > In case anyone is interested, I've made a few modifications
> > to MythWeb to
> > allow me to click on a program and play the file directly
> > from a samba share
> > into Windows Media Player. I use this in conjunction with the DSMyth
> > Direct Show filters for windows to play recorded programs on my
> > Windows box. The
> > main advantage of this over HTTP sreaming is the ability to
> > use the seek
> > bar. This is done by dynamically creating a .asx playlist containing
> > the .nuv which can be associated with Media Player.
>
> What's wrong with using myth:// url's and the config options already
present
> in mythweb cvs ?
> Only one # needs to be removed from config/conf.php to make it work and
> posibly editing the video_url string.
> It's much easier and doesn't rely on having a samba share.
>
> After that's done you can just click on the recording on the recorded
> programs page and your mediaplayer will open.
> Given that it knows how to open url's properly.
>
>
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