[mythtv-users] mythweb launching/streaming audio/video files?

[Alan Snyder]

I was initially excited about the prospects of
streaming, but now, the
problem IMHO is that it sucks up CPU on both the
server and client sides -
for encode and decode.

Ideas for alternatives:

For a home environment with Linux boxes: multiple
frontends - already done.

For a home environment with access on non-Linux boxes:
DirectShow filter - a
nontrivial job (someone working on it, I think), but
then once that's in
place and shares are set up correctly launching
through mythweb would be
easy (someone posted mythweb mods a while back) and
the server would only be
serving up the file.

For remote (low bandwidth) sharing: Streaming (server
side cpu use) seems
the logical choice.  Perhaps there could be a
transcoding option that would
keep the original but save a reduced-resolution copy
(over in MythVideo, or
a new MythServe?) ready for efficient streaming.



-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of
Tim Harvey
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 12:20 AM
To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] mythweb launching/streaming
audio/video files?

I've searched through the archives and have seen a
little bit of talk
regarding streaming audio/video files possibly kicked
off through an
interface like mythweb.  Is anyone currently doing
anything like this?

I see some advantages of streaming, but I think it
also could be a
difficult thing to support (ie, what streaming format
to use, and what
players/platforms support it?)

How about the obvious of just having mythweb launch
the files from an
nfs/smb network mountpoint?  I suppose you would have
to configure
mythweb on a per-client basis what the mountpoint is
of the various
shares.  I'm not much of a web programmer... would you
be able to do
this once via a cookie?

Just some thoughts... it seems like mythweb could be a
full featured
'cross-platform' UI to MythTV if it could launch
files.  Perhaps this is
being worked on and I've just missed the threads.

Tim




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