[mythtv-users] Strreaming Mythtv to Android device?

Colin Cross mythtv at colincross.com
Wed Sep 30 03:48:59 UTC 2009


On 09/29/2009 09:12 AM, Mike Dent wrote:
> Has anybody looked in to this yet? It would be nice to have a myth
> frontend which ran on android :)
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I have an Android app I did a while ago that sort of works.  The main 
limitation is that I can't find any way to convert Myth recordings into 
hinted 3gp tracks for streaming on the fly.  I can only use a 2 pass 
process to transcode a finished recording into 3gp format and run MP4Box 
-hint on it to add the hint track.

My solution used a Django web application to provide an xml interface to 
the Myth database.  Selecting a recording would start a transcoding to 
3gp if necessary, or stream it if it was already transcoded.  I also 
modified the media player widget in the Android app to show commercial 
breaks on the progress bar and also skipping commercials.

The Django app needs to be replaced with something more standardized, 
and I have to add more configuration options and fix some bugs before I 
can release anything.


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