[mythtv-users] HLS, transcoding with HD content etc

[Dan Poltawski]

Hi All,

I'm just starting to experiment with the built in with HLS support and
other things for playing UK DVB HD content on iOS devices. Unfortunately my
backend is nearly 10 years old and doesn't have much horsepower for
transcoding.

I'm wondering if anyone has any insights:

1) Is anyone pre-transcoding with HLS? Do you have a script for doing it
with services API or do you take another approach?

2) Can modern hardware do the HLS transcode in reasonable time? The various
android apps seem to suggest that way, so I'm considering upgrading my
hardware for this (I realise this is a 'how long is a piece of string'
question but wondering what others experiences are)

3) Are people using any other approaches for playing content on iOS? I am
keen to avoid transcoding on the iOS side to get a better scrubbing
experience... I am pretty clueless but I think that some of the UK channels
might just need putting in another container format as they have mpeg4
streams so that could avoid a transcode for those..

4) Are there quality limitations with the current HLS support? (Is it
capable of 5.1 sound?)

Any help/insights appreciated :)

cheers,
Dan
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