[mythtv-users] Ipod Touch youtube player

[Chris Isip]

Hey, thats great info.  I am wondering if MythWeb could be setup to serve
transcoded stuff this way.  I know it presents a link to the mpeg4 file, but
clicking it only results in mythweb opening another page and displaying the
movie bits instead of playing it in Firefox running on Fedora and Windows
XP.  Does anyone know how to  set it up so clicking on the thumbnail will
result in video playback?  Or does this only work for quicktime video when
the browser is setup with that plugin?  has anybody gotten firefox to launch
mplayer when the thumbnail is clicked in mythweb on a nontranscoded video
file?


Regarding the youtube player.  My idea was to try  to figure out what  GET
commands it is sending through the network (if it does use http which I
assume it does) by runniing the request through squid and examining its
logs.  Then write a little script so that squid will redirect to a local
webserver whenever it detects this request and pull the video playlist from
there.  The local webpage could be dynamically generated by downloading with
curl the youtube page and then changing the links and tags to point towards
local transcoded video files.  I believe, this method of web page
redirection is  how the upside down ternet works as well as dansguardian and
adzap.

Anybody care to comment.

Thanks
Chris


On 10/3/07, Willy Boyd <willyboyd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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