[mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV

[David Whyte]

Roger that mate!  I might just take a look at it tonight ;)


On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:35:45 -0800, Joshua Ebel <jebel at bivio.net> wrote:
> David-
> 
> Yes wrapping the control to the http interface could be done quite easily.
> Also there is an rc (text) interface that allows keystrokes to control the
> output of VLC. If you're interesting in how the VLC HTTP interface works,
> there is full documentation in the Videolan client docs that describes
> creating a custom interface.
> 
> I will consider wrapping the interface in MythWeb for security's sake. But
> initially my proof of concept probably won't be that way.... (Unless I can
> find a really easy way to do it! :)
> 
> Unfortunately my 'real' job is starting to get busy and that leaves less
> time for me to play.
> 
> If you can get something working I wouldn't be opposed to adding it to the
> project.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Joshua Ebel
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of David Whyte
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 2:37 PM
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> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV
> 
> I saw the discussion on the sourceforge project page about swapping
> the 'I dummy' interface to 'I http' so you can view a VLC web page to
> control the stream and it works a damn treat!  Great stuff.
> 
> As you said, it would be cool to integrate this control into
> MythStream, however, it would require opening another port so your
> clients can view that page and you never know if the VLC web server is
> secure.
> 
> What I am thinking is, is there a way to wrap this page so that the
> control buttons are part of MythWeb but when they are pressed they run
> script to wget the relevant page of the VLC server?
> 
> Dave
> 
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:33:11 -0500, Joseph A. Caputo
> <jcaputo1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 January 2005 14:16, Joshua Ebel wrote:
> > > You've assumed correctly. Unfortunately there is no support in
> > > Videolan Client for the MPEG-4/RTjpeg Nuppel video files.
> >
> > To avoid confusion, you might want to stop referring to the files
> > produced by PVR-x50, ATSC or DVB cards as "NuppelVideo".  They are not
> > NuppelVideo, they are standard MPEG-2.  The ".nuv" extension is just a
> > convenience to simplify the way Myth handles files internally.  It
> > should be made clear that this solution will *only* work if:
> >
> > - you record your programs with a hardware MPEG encoder card (PVR-x50,
> > M-179, etc)
> > OR
> > - you receive programming in MPEG-2 a la DVB/ATSC/HD
> >
> > AND
> > - you do not automatically transcode recordings
> >
> > Actually, I'm starting to wonder if, with the increasing popularity of
> > hardware encoders and digital broadcasting, if it wouldn't make sense
> > to enable the internal transcoder to output a standard MPEG container.
> > That way only files that were originally software-encoded would need to
> > be in Myth's Nuppel container; everything else could either remain
> > MPEG-2 or be transcoded to MPEG-4 in an MPEG container.  I imagine this
> > might get a little dicey regarding audio sync if there were cut
> > points... actually, it would probably be possible to transcode to
> > NuppelVideo if (a) the source is already Nuppel, or (b) there are cut
> > points, otherwise, transcode to a standard MPEG container.
> >
> > ...come to think of it, you could probably do this now by turning off
> > auto-transcoding and instead running a custom JobQueue job that runs
> > transcode or mencoder to transcode down from MPEG-2... hmmm, I might
> > give that a try... no cutpoints, but you'd get the benefit of
> > transcoding to a smaller codec while preserving the ability to stream.
> >
> > Sorry, I realize this is not necessarily your concern in relation to
> > mythstreamtv, but I thought it an idea worth "putting out there", as it
> > may be of interest to some folks following this thread.
> >
> >
> > -JAC
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