[mythtv-users] streaming to windows (directly through myth)

[Adam Propeck]

DSMYTH.  Google it or look at sourceforge specifically. It sets up the
Myth:// and Mythlive:// and all that stuff.

On 1/16/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>
> Andy Foster wrote:
> > This question rears its ugly head every couple of months but I'm a
> > little baffled by what is needed, minimally, to stream videos from myth.
> >
> > Some people say they're able to play simply by installing dsmyth,
> > clicking on the myth://hostname:6543/xyz.mpg link in the appropriate
> > browser, and the media player of choice launches and starts streaming.
> >
> > I don't understand how they do this at all. This is the myth protocol,
> > and thats the mythbackend address, but how does their media player
> > understand the myth:// uri? As I understand it in this case the media
> > player is basically being launched with the uri as an argument. I have
> > tried this with wmp, media player classic and videolan client, none of
> > them comprehend the myth:// uri, and my backend log shows no access
> > attempts.
> >
> > As an alternative I tried disabling the url rewriting for windows
> > clients so that myweb simply provides a
> > http://hostname/valid/path/to/files.mpg . When I click this, it
> > prompts me to download it. I can download and then watch it without
> > problems (unless the file is over 2gb, but thats another matter), but
> > considering the sizes involved I'd prefer to stream. If I put this uri
> > directly into videolan, it works
> >
> > Both of these behaviours seem to be correct to me, but are
> > unfortunately not what I want. So how do I either:
> > 1. make the media players understand the myth protocol?
> > 2. make my browser (firefox) allow me to pass the http:// uri to the
> > program of my choosing?
> >
> > I understand there are a lot of workarounds for this, including samba
> > shares (I've tried this but similarly have not been able to launch
> > anything from a valid file:// uri), videolan on both client and
> > server, but I would really like to keep this minimal, as well as be
> > able to use the media player of my choice.
> MythStreamTV (not so great on the minimal side, but...)
>
> Mike
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