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

[Tim Harvey]

Isn't a simple step to allow MythWeb to launch the files which would
have nothing to do with streaming?  I can probably add this (although
I'm not familiar with php scripting) but I'm not of the best way to
handle configuring and persistently storing the particular web client's
'prefix' to the files.  I suppose that they can be stored as settings in
the db indexed by client ip.

Personally, in my setup I don't see an advantage of streaming at all.
I'm using Myth in a home environment where I may have up to 3 myth
frontends running and a multi-tuner backend.  I don't see any reason to
stream when bandwidth on the home network isn't an issue and none of the
frontends would really be watching the same thing simultaneously.  My
filestore is a separate NAS box with 900GB of Raid5 storage and all home
systems are SMB/NAS attached.  Keep in mind I'm only thinking of
web-initiated playback of stored video's, and music.  I realize that
there may be some issues with LiveTV (do I recall someone saying that
LiveTV was streamed through a socket to the frontend vs the frontend
opening the output file?).  Recorded programs don't seem that they would
be a problem as they are MPEG2 with a different filename and I can watch
them fine with my windows based players (am I missing something here as
well?  If you have cut's in the file will that choke an MPEG2 player?).

Again though, I'm mostly wanting to be able to launch an audio playlist
or one of the 250+ DivX movies I've got on my NAS using the mythweb
frontend.

Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Chris Petersen
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 9:33 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb launching/streaming audio/video
files?
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I've always wanted mythweb to be able to do this kind of thing, but
> until there is a way to actually stream the content in real-time, in a
> format that a browser would understand, it's kind of pointless.
> 
> Having a separate process, like mythstream, would be a better idea.
> Then mythweb could just forward to a URI for the streaming server, and
> that server can do what it needs to for accessing files, transcoding,
> etc.
> 
> -Chris
> 
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