[mythtv] API Bug or Feature?

Greg Thompson gthompson20 at gmail.com
Thu May 15 12:59:54 UTC 2014


On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 8:21 PM, George Nassas <gnassas at mac.com> wrote:

> On May 14, 2014, at 7:34 PM, Greg Thompson <gthompson20 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Then it occurred to me, that Mythtranscode tries to go as fast as it can
> when transcoding the HLS stream… Is there a mechanism in place to prevent
> that? So it won’t reach the end of the live recording and then stop?
>
>
> There's no such mechanism. Live TV doesn't really fit in to the current
> HLS streaming architecture where it HLS-izes a file in one shot from start
> to finish. A future change is planned where myth pretends all programs have
> been HLS transcoded and then creates segments on the fly as clients request
> them. Live TV support will probably shake out as a side effect of that code
> but who knows when it'll arrive.
>
> - George
>

With ffmpeg its as easy as using the -re switch on the input file... Is
mythtranscode based off of ffmpeg?

Greg
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