[mythtv-users] Streaming

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 06 June 2003 02:07 pm, Mark Edwards wrote:
> Hi, all.
> I'm a big fan of ffserver, and use it on my mythtv box when myth isn't
> running, so I can listen to the radio and watch TV upstairs in a window on
> my PC. I'd really like to be able to incorporate streaming into mythtv.
> There could be a few ways to do this, at the minute I shut down mythbackend
> and start ffserver manually, of course ffserver can pick up most file
> formats and stream them, so the alternative would be just picking up the
> ringbuffer.nuv file, but I'm having no luck with the nuv stuff, I guess
> this may be because it's an unusual format Myth uses?
>
> Anyother possibility would be trying to use transcode to get it into a
> format that ffmpeg/server would understand. But I suspect this would put
> way to much load on my allready struggling CPU.
>
> Anyone got any pointers on this, I don't mind getting my fingers dirty, but
> I'm new to python and my C is pretty rusty. I'm also fairly new to some of
> the intricacies of video formats

You could always just run a remote mythfrontend, as that's pretty much exactly 
what it's meant for.

Isaac