[mythtv-users] Capturing a ASX stream over the internet

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Stackpole, Chris
<CStackpole at barbnet.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A group asked me to help them setup a PC to watch and capture an ASX
> stream over the internet for a conference next week. After talking with
> them about how they want to view the stream on one PC in the main room
> and possibly several other PC's in smaller rooms, I have come to the
> conclusion that MythTV would be perfect. One backend to capture the
> stream and then however many frontends they need (and that the network
> could handle) can be setup easily. Especially if I can use the Myth
> interface, then this is going to be a cakewalk.
>
> The problem is I don't know how to get Myth to capture an ASX stream.
>
> I know that there are various plugins that have been discussed for
> streaming sites (like youtube) but I don't know if they can capture an
> ASX stream. Can someone help point me to one that might work for an ASX
> stream? My Google-fu didn't turn up anything I found useful (just a lot
> about streaming /from/ mythweb).
>
> Just incase it matters, the site that is hosting the event is
> http://www.townhallforhope.com .

outside of mythtv its often as easy as

mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile yourname.avi http://example.com/path/to/stream.asx

if stream.asx is in fact a text file pointing to the real stream
address try -playlist in front of the url.

This of course does not get you into "recorded" but will be available
in "videos" and playable from front ends.

Other possibility from within myth is through the IPTV tuner in the
backend. This will involve setting up an m3u playlist file for the
stream, although I don't know if this is possible with .asx streams



>
> Thanks,
> ~Stack~
>
>
>
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