[mythtv-users] Strreaming Mythtv to Android device?

[Glenn Harris]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Colin Cross <mythtv at colincross.com> wrote:
> 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 :)
>>
>> Mike
>
> 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.

Hi Colin,
Have you made much progress on this?  I have been looking around for a
good streaming solution.  I tried out OrbLive, but it is pretty
painful at times.
The 'commercial breaks on progress bar' sounds pretty enticing!

I was really hoping to find something that can do 'live streaming',
but it doesn't seem like that is possible yet.

Thanks!
--Glenn