[mythtv-users] MythstreamTV (and mythweb) question

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/24/06 20:39, chris at cpr.homelinux.net wrote:

>On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 08:07:52PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
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>>MythWeb automatically uses "myth://" URI's when the client (running the 
>>browser) is a Windows machine.  It's assuming you have the DSMyth 
>>filters (properly) installed.
>>
>That made a lot of sense when the files were in the .nuv format and 
>Windows had no way of viewing them natively.  Now that the 
>recordings are .mpg,
>
The file formats haven't changed.  If the files are in MPEG format, now, 
they were in MPEG format before--they just happened to have a name that 
ended with .nuv.  Any OS that wasn't designed to require file metadata 
to be encoded into a filename doesn't care.  And the OS that does 
require special filenames has a facility for changing the application 
associated with an extension.

> serving them through VLC (for streaming) or 
>http (for downloading) is probably more practical.  It shouldn't be 
>neccessary to treat Windows clients differently from everyone else.
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>
Wow.  I'm very surprised to hear that nobody ever transcodes their files 
to MPEG-4 in NuppelVideo containers and that nobody has software 
encoders (which record to NuppelVideo containers), anymore.

Mike