[mythtv] MythWeb/playback potential?

[Torbjörn Jansson]

I'm working on a directshow filter for windows that can read mythtv .nuv
files.
Once I get it a bit more stable and fixed most of the bugs I'll release it.
Hopefully it shoudn't be to far away, a few weeks maybe.

I have it working so I can play .nuv files encoded with with mpeg4 and mp3
or uncompressed audio, I think hardware encoded mjpeg shoud work too without
any modifications, but I haven't tested that since I don't have any test
files.

Yesterday discovered a problem with files larger than 2Gb. Currently the
filter itself does all of the file reading, but I plan on changing that when
its working a bit better and replace the file reading part with windows own
file reader filter (actialy an inputpin that uses IAsyncReader).
I hope this also will enable streaming nuv files over the web, it shoud work
in theory atleast.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-dev-bounces at snowman.net 
> [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of Chris Petersen
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 7:01 PM
> To: Development of mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] MythWeb/playback potential?
> 
> 
> > For those who are stuck with Windows on some of their machines,
> > enabling a Windows PC to play .nuv files, and the simple 
> addition of a
> > link on the MythWeb “recorded programs” page  to the file on the
> > backend would make an acceptable Windows front end.
> 
> This assumes that the mythweb machine has access to the files on the
> backend.  But yes, that's all possible, and relatively easy from a
> mythweb standpoint.
> 
> However, getting windows to play the files (copying the stream into an
> avi container doesn't seem to help make them more compatible) 
> is still a
> pretty major issue.
> 
> -Chris
> 
>