[mythtv] Streaming Media as part of MythMusic or new streamingmodule??

[Kevin Kuphal]

Darren,

You should look at the libavformat/libavcodec support I checked in for WMA
support.  The libraries support RTSP as well as Real streams and I believe
can handle Windows Media streams as well.  The modifications should be
trivial to feed it a URL rather than filename.  I think this is the type of
integration that Isaac is looking for

Kevin

> I have been looking into streaming media with MythTV, and 
> from the email below you can see that I have been in touch 
> with Stefan Frank. 
> 
> Stefan has told me that he has gone a long way down the route 
> of integrating this into MythMusic, with one major limitation 
> that this present solution cannot play realaudio streams.
> 
> I have done some experimentation in this area, and I have had 
> particular success using Mplayer with LIVE.com support 
> compiled in. This leads me to suggest a different approach to 
> that offered by Stefan, I am keen to develop a complete 
> steaming myth module based on mplayer. Firstly to support 
> Streaming audio and later to support streaming video as well.
> 
> My current idea is to take the mythvideo module as a template 
> and modify this to do what is required to launch mplayer with 
> the required command line options.
> 
> I suppose the main question is, should I pursue this, or 
> should I be concentrating on assisting the MythMusic solution 
> instead ?
> 
> Stefan, anyone else any comments ??