[mythtv-users] http live stream doesn't use requested size

[Alex Tomlins]

On 20/03/2012 23:58, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> Seems to work fine here.  I tried passing in just a height of 720 and then
> again passing in just a width of 1280 and my 1080i recording was converted
> down to 720.  Can you try playing one of the .ts files in mplayer or
> something else that will report the video size?  The individual .ts files
> should be located in ~/.mythtv/tmp/hls/ on the backend.  They get cleaned
> up when you delete the stream, so you'll need to start one, then try
> playing the .ts file before you delete.  You can stop the stream transcoding
> if you want to after you have a playable .ts file, you only need to test
> the first one.  You can also test using the JW Player flash player on
> the master backend webserver.  http://backendIP:6544/samples/hlstest.qsp
> That page will have a link to the 1-click JW Player install if you haven't
> installed JW Player yet. Once JW Player is installed, you can
> start/stop/play/delete streams from that test page.  You might get prompted
> for a password when you try to install JW Player, this is the default
> backend web admin login/password of admin/mythtv.  This login and password
> will be used to protect the web setup pages once we convert to using them
> to replace mythtv-setup hopefully in time for 0.26.
>
> * On Sun Mar 18, 2012 at 10:51:06PM -0700, Jeffrey Wong wrote:
>> I tried passing 720 as the Height.  The livestream table correctly shows
>> 1280 as the width, and 720 as the height.  When I load the livestream in
>> Quicktime it shows up as only 853x480.  Is there another client I should
>> try using to test?  I tried VLC but couldn't figure out how to get it to
>> open the URL.
>>
>> -jw
>>

Is it possible that it only supports resizing downwards, and not 
upscaling?  i.e. it was coming out at 853x480 because that's the 
resolution of the source file.


Alex

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