[mythtv-users] UPnP Myth .20 Roku HD1000

Bill Peck bill.peck at gmail.com
Wed Oct 4 22:27:34 UTC 2006


On 10/4/06, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
>
> Bill Peck wrote:
> >
> > I was very pleased to see that with the latest ATRPMS UPnP video
> > playback is working perfectly on my HD1000!  Especially important
> > since the native MythRoku has stopped working and devleopment is slow.
> >
> > I was wondering if it might be possible to have the MythServer skip
> > commercials for the UPnP clients?  Since the server would basically
> > have to skip the video that is flagged as a commercial it could get
> > annoying if it got it wrong.  Surely it would have to be an option to
> > turn on or off, or maybe provide another UPnP folder or file that is
> > the "commercial less" version.  Another thought would be to show the
> > commercial video if the user rewinds or forwards around a commercial
> cut.
> >
> > It just seems that now that UPnP is starting to work so well and we
> > don't have to worry about protocol versions on our silent frontends
> > that we could bring back the best feature of MythTV. :-)
> Since they skipping is done by the client (frontend), not the backend,
> your best bet is to do a lossless transcode and cut out the commercials
> from the original file which will then not have them when streamed to
> the client.


I know thats how its currently implemented.  I'm asking if this could be
implemented in a future version and if others think its a good idea.

I am going to use the commercial cutting script for now.  But I think we
could get some kind of hybrid approach (rew/ffwd) that would work well for
UPnP clients.

Kevin
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