[mythtv] LiveTV http Stream

[René Bühlmann]

Sorry for sending the patch to the mailing list, I should have created a 
ticket but it was already too late and I just wanted to commit this 
patch somehow :)

Now there's the ticket:

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/6906

René Bühlmann wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> the attached Patch is the second part to enable LiveTV streaming through
> http. It adds an extension to the http server within mythbackend and
> enables it to stream TV.
>
> I only tried it with mplayer. To stream livetv, you have to play this
> URL:
>
> http://[backend-address]:6544/livetv/[channel-num]
>
> eg.:
> mplayer http://127.0.0.01:6544/livetv/1
>
> If available, the stream uses the recording profile called "Stream TV".
> With the live tanscoder patch, this profile can be setup such that the
> stream gets transcoded to a different format (and soon also a different
> resolution).
>
> I would love to see these features in 0.22 but I'm not able to provide a
> more finished patch for today. I would improve it during the bugfix
> phase. As these patches don't introduce too much change to existing
> code, it would be easy to revert them any time.
>
> Do you think it's possible to take this into the 0.22 release?
>
> thx
> René
>
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