[mythtv-users] Flash streaming through a non-standard HTTP port?

[Marc Tousignant]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of William
> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 6:22 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Flash streaming through a non-standard HTTP
> port?
> 
> Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > I am using Mythbuntu 8.04 with Myth 0.21 (long in the tooth, I know).
> > I enabled the experimental Flash server and it works well on my home
> > network which Apache serves on port 80.  Because my ISP blocks port
> 80,
> > I have Apache serving the Internet on a non-standard port (with
> > authentication).  Everything about MythWeb is working fine except
> that
> > I can't play the Flash video. The player loads and the video
> thumbnail
> > is displayed, but when the Play button is click the player screen
> goes
> > blank and no video appears.
> >
> > I find nothing in either syslog or the access log to suggest a kernel
> > firewall or Apache configuration that is stopping things.  Does the
> > Flash player use port 80?  If so, that will need to be addressed and
> a
> > new port assigned.  Where might I go about addressing that?
> >
> > - Nate >>
> >
> >
> Have you tried using your router to redirect the non standard port to
> port 80 internally? I am not sure if your standard router firmware can
> handle that task however any router flashed with dd-wrt will do it.
> 
> W.
> 
> _______________________________________________

Using apache to serve on a non standard port causes issues. I used to do
this as something else was on port 80 from a different machine.
In order to get nonstandard ports to work with mythweb AND the flash player
you have to modify the web code.

In your mythweb folder file includes/utils.php change this line
                 ? 'http://' . http_host
.':'._or($_SESSION['stream']['force_http_port'], '80')

What I usually did was remove the 80
                 ? 'http://' . http_host
.':'._or($_SESSION['stream']['force_http_port'], '')

What would happen is if I setup apache to use port 82 the line above would
still attempt to force over port 80 so nothing ever got streamed.
Changing this allowed apache to control which port was used. There was
supposed to be a way to change this using the mythweb settings > streaming
page but it never worked for me. What that would do is try to force
streaming over site.com:82:82 or something like that.

What William mentioned however might work, If you don't have something else
already on port 80 on that machine. Change apache back to using port 80, and
set your firewall/router to rout the outside port to the inside port. So,
for outside connections you connect to port 82 and internally that gets sent
to 80, your ISP won't know.

Marc