[mythtv-users] MythTV Is Now Forked As Torc

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Tue Feb 21 20:13:46 UTC 2012


On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 03:04:28PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:17 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> >> advanced much in reality.  It's still doing the same thing it did 9
> >> years ago generally except better (VDPAU and storage pools for
> >> example).  I'm OK with that though.  I am however disappointed by area
> >> like streaming to phones, laptops, transcoding, etc are still woefully
> >
> >     "streaming" to other devices is primarily hung up on the fact that
> > many of them aren't well equipped to deal with any TV recording or most
> > other forms of video for that matter.
> 
> That's what content negotiation is for:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_negotiation
> 
> Ideally the mythTV protocol used to communicate between the backend
> and frontend would include some form of content negotiation, and
> perhaps the backend could generate transcoded content on the fly to
> best fit the frontend's needs.  It can be done, it just hasn't been.

   I know it can be done. I am just not convinced that it is all that it
is cracked up to be. 


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