[mythtv-users] MythTV Transcode Proxy

[Chase Douglas]

Hello all,

I wanted to mention a project I've been working on call MythTV  
Transcode Proxy, or MTP. It allows for a slightly modified frontend to  
connect to a mythtv setup from across the internet, even if there are  
multiple slave backends and the system sits behind a NAT router. All  
control messages (and video streams if you want) are encrypted using  
TLS-SRP. Finally, and this is most interesting to me, the frontend can  
request the stream to be transcoded on the fly to a format of the  
frontend's choosing.

More details can be found at http://trac.assembla.com/legend/wiki/MythTVTranscodeProxy 
.

I would enjoy hearing of any and all comments, questions, and concerns  
anyone may have. My intention is that this can be used to allow for  
all kinds of atypical frontends, such as frontends on mobile devices.  
I am also currently working on an iPhone frontend, but it is very far  
from completion. However, I can attest that it can play back video  
streams from my backend to my iPhone on AT&T's 3G network.

Thanks,
Chase Douglas

P.S.: I find Qt to be marvelous, but c++ itself to be clumsy (when  
compared to objective-c at least), so if anyone peeks at the code and  
sees any code misuse or design flaws, I'm all ears.