[mythtv-users] Mythtube: Internet Video on Demand

[Jeff volckaert]

On 11/8/06, Michael Tiller <michael.tiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to do this without the user job?  In other words, do the
> encoding on the fly?  Also, I didn't understand the necessity to strip the
> commercials (what is a B-frame?).  The commercial flagging isn't 100% so I
> prefer to skip rather than remove the commercials (just in case).
>
> It seems like this would be a fabulous extension to MythWeb (especially if
> you could make it do the encoding on the fly).  Any chance (and interest)
> for merging it into MythWeb?
>
> --
> Mike

I don't know anyway to kick off the mencoder via PHP.  It takes about
15-20 mins to encode an hour long video so it would certainly work.
The B-frame issue is just something I saw as a problem with mencoder
and noticed that transcode strips them out anyway.  If you just did
the lossless transcoding without commercial skip you would get the
same stripping.  I haven't tried transcoding an original file to see
if it bombs.

I like the idea of transcoding the files to separate directory under
apache and having the small php app that displays the flv filenames.
That way I don't have to use mythtweb or give access to mythweb if
someone else wants to watch the videos.  It's just VERY clean and
simple.

BTW, As Stuart pointed out there is a way to flash video under Mythweb
from the Wiki.  It's very similar in that it does a user job to
transcode (via ffmpeg instead of mencoder) and shows how to change
Mythweb to link to it.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Stream_mythtv_recordings_from_mythweb_using_flash_video

Jeff