[mythtv-users] Streaming video from web

Marc Nicholas marc at geekythings.com
Tue Nov 16 06:05:45 UTC 2004


Might be worth a side-project at some point, then.

-marc

David Whyte wrote:

>And me....for what its worth
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>On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:39:10 -0500, Marc Nicholas <marc at geekythings.com> wrote:
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>>Well, once I get a solid foundation for my Myth environment, I'd like to
>>have web transcoding/streaming as an option too. So you're not the only
>>one :-)
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>>
>>-marc
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>>Dave Packham wrote:
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>>>Yeah.  That would be nice.  My next door neighbor runs SnapStream and it
>>>has a on the fly transcode (downcoding) for him to watch on a lower
>>>bandwidth device, functionality from the webpage.  Even though its nice
>>>to be able to click on it now and have MythWeb serve up the raw NUV
>>>files... Its not all the time that im on a fast enough link.  Sometime I
>>>would really like to watch a show from a DSL link or conference wireless
>>>setup.  Launching VLC as a client app by some helper hook would be
>>>really cool.  VLC is a great client AND server app...  Maybe I'd make
>>>some cool themes for VLC that would allow it to look and feel like
>>>MythTv Themes....
>>>
>>>Dave P
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>>>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Marc Nicholas
>>>Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 7:19 PM
>>>To: Discussion about mythtv
>>>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Streaming video from web
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>>>I think Dave's referring to getting VLC acting as a "helper application"
>>>
>>>so that you can clock on URL and have a stream delivered.
>>>
>>>Obviously you can circumvent the above :-)
>>>
>>>-marc
>>>
>>>Brad Fuller wrote:
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>>>>Dave Packham wrote:
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>>>>>I use vlc on my AMD opt.  No probs... Hmm  how will you get VLC to
>>>>>fire off and start streaming and call a media player of some sort from
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>>>>>the web page?
>>>>>
>>>>>Streaming a file with VLC is easy.  The hard part will be  finding a
>>>>>way to fire off the client side app..  Like VLC on your notebook to
>>>>>receive the transcoded stream
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>>>>I don't quite follow you, Dave. I know nothing about these two apps,
>>>>but I thought VLC was the client app and VLS was the streaming server
>>>>one. I was refering to VLS.
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>>>>If you did compile VLS on a 64bit, did you change any source?
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>>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>>From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>>>>>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Brad Fuller
>>>>>Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 4:52 PM
>>>>>To: Discussion about mythtv
>>>>>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Streaming video from web
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>>>>>Marc Nicholas wrote:
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>>>>>>You're making things overly complicated. Why convert to RealMedia
>>>>>>when
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>>>>>>you likely already have files in MPEG format?
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>>>>>>http://www.vidoelan.org
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>>>>>This is cool. I dnl'd and tried to make. All the libraries compiled
>>>>>except for the main vls (streaming) app on AMD64. Several errors in
>>>>>/src/code/application.cpp of conflicting types:  'typedef uint64_t
>>>>>
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>>>u64'
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>>>>>Anyone get this to work on 64bit? This would be a very good solution
>>>>>in my particular setup.
>>>>>
>>>>>thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>>brad
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