[mythtv-users] Ipod Touch youtube player

[Willy Boyd]

On 10/2/07, Chris Isip <cmisipster at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am seriously considering buying an ipod touch and was wondering if anybody
> in the list have tried any integration with mythtv.    It shouldn't be that
> hard to  transcode videos so it will be playable on the ipod touch.    I
> have not looked into this yet though but there are howtos everywhere in the
> net.  My interest is in the youtube player since there is no flash support
> in Safari and therefore mythweb with real time flash encoding (should?) will
> not work.    It would be interesting to know how the youtube player works.
> I was wondering how it communicates with youtube.com  (http? perhaps).  If
> so would it be possible to send it a fake youtube feed that contains a
> mythtv playlist transcoded to h264?   Perhaps achieve this with some sort of
> squid proxy redirect or some iptables magic.  Does the list have any insight
> into this?
>
> Thanks
> Chris
>

You'll have no need to use the built-in YouTube player.  I have an
iPhone (quite similar in this regard), and have experimented a little
with video.  Not only can you just use something like myth2ipod or
many other scripts out there to transcode the video to MPEG4 or H264,
and use iTunes to copy the video directly onto the device, but you can
also just host the video somewhere and stream over HTTP using the
Safari browser.  As long as the webserver is setup to serve out the
right content-type (*.mp4 -> video/mp4), the builtin Quicktime player
will recognize the video and play it over HTTP.  (This also works for
MP3 sound).  For an example just cruise over to Apple's trailers
website using an iPhone or iPod Touch, and check out the movie
trailers they have setup in just the same way for proper streaming.

- Willy