[mythtv] Implications of the new youtube API

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Fri Mar 14 13:50:39 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 23:52 -0600, Robert Johnston wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Kevin Kuphal <kkuphal at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Bryan Haskins <ryuzaki90 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Really? Weird. From all the blog talk around it, it seems as though the
> > biggest thing is the neutrality of the content, and being visible in any 3rd
> > party player. How is it being accomplished without directly passing the
> > stream?
> >
> >
> > Oh, it also has links to the SWF file and the 3GP file via RTSP.  Doesn't do
> > me much good inside of Myth because AFAIK, the internal player can't consume
> > an RTSP stream at this point.  If/when it does, things get more interesting.
> 
> The frontend can't, but the backend can (IIRC) in the IPTV recorder...
> 
> Now all we'd need is a method to make "Vidcasts" available as a
> channel to tune to...

Yeah, the backend can handle RTSP, and that is really the proper place
to handle video recording anyway, streaming or not.

-- Daniel



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