[mythtv-users] mythbackend -> iPod Touch

[Wade Maxfield]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Brad DerManouelian
> <myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
>> On Oct 1, 2008, at 1:40 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>>>> So many ways.
>>>> http://www.google.com/search?q=mythtv+ipod
>>> Maybe I'm missing the point. If I am please let me know. (gnetly///)
>>>
>>> I went that way before I wrote to the list. Everything I'm finding
>>> *seems* to be for older, sort of static iPods. Convert the video,
>>> transfer it over USB, watch it. The iPod Touch is just a portable
>>> device that's always on our network. Conceptually it's just another
>>> machine that runs a browser & applications. I don't want to convert
>>> anything before it gets watched on the device. I just want to stream
>>> it like I was streaming to my PC and let it do whatever is required to
>>> format it to its screen. If that doesn't work, because maybe the
>>> device doesn't have enough processing power, then I'll look into
>>> conversion. The best interface for me would be a browser interface
>>> into the recorded programs list and then click and play.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the ideas.
>> Yeah, you are missing the point that the iPod can only play back
>> specific quicktime formats natively so everything else will need to be
>> converted to that format which is what everything in the google
>> results does.
> 
> So everything she's streaming from YouTube and www.nbc.com is all
> Quicktime? I'm surprised. I'll check that out when my wife and son get
> home. It was my impression that they were simply surfing the web and
> watching whatever they wanted to watch. If that only works when the
> server has quickTime formats then I'll have to convert as you suggest.
> Thanks.
> 

Not necessarily QuickTime, but most likely MPEG4/H264.   YouTube 
silently detects you are using an iPhone OS device and sends the H264 
version if it exists.  Some youtube videos won't play on iPhone/iPod 
Touch, as not all are available in H264.

  - Wade