[mythtv-users] UPNP in progress recordings

[Dave Brown]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>wrote:

> On 5/10/2012 06:33, Dave Brown wrote:
>
>> I read on the mythtv wiki that some upnp devices have problems watching
>> in progress recordings from mythtv.  I think playback needs to be
>> restarted often.
>>
>> I was going to purchase a wdtv live some time ago but when for a
>> frontend however, I could do with just getting a cheap upnp client for
>> another room.
>>
>
> MythTV streams content as a single file, and consequently, must give the
> player a file size.  Once the player reaches the end of that size, playback
> will stop, and most, if not all, UPnP players will dump you back to their
> menu.  This behavior will persist until MythTV switches to a playlist
> method, where it gives the UPnP player an unbounded sequence of chunks it
> can access, in very similar fashion to how the new HLS code operates.
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Cheers Raymond
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