[mythtv-users] Mythtube: Internet Video on Demand

[Willy Boyd]

In theory PHP should be able to kick off mencoder, I guess it's just a
matter of the cpu, disk and bandwidth keeping up with the on-the-fly
encoding.  I have seen snippets of PHP code that downsample mp3's to a
lower bitrate for internet streaming with lame and that's basically
the same thing (albeit less processing since it's only audio).

On 11/29/06, Cory Zerwas <gannas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow!  I am going to implement this over the weekend.  For those people who
> are less savvy, what will it take to get this functionality on the
> development roadmap?
>
> On 11/8/06, Jeff volckaert <jvolckaert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
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