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

[Chris Eldredge]

> A side question, does mythvideo do streaming video?

mythvideo is basically just a menu+manager+browser that launches an actual
video player like mplayer or xine.  so the answer is yes it can play them.

you can do some pretty nifty things by just putting a mrl into a playlist
then treating the playlist as a video file.

for example, a cool feature of xine is if you have a dvd file structure on
your hard drive, you can navigate the dvd menus by playing the dvd like
this:

xine dvd://mnt/share/video/MYMOVIE/VIDEO_TS/

the trick is you can't just put a dvd structure into the mythvideo
directory or it will just see all of the VOBS and not a whole DVD.  my
solution:  put the DVD elsewhere, then do

echo dvd://mnt/share/dvds/MYMOVIE/VIDEO_TS/ > \
/mnt/share/mythvideo/my-movie.pls

which creates a playlist that xine can handle.  then just define a .pls
handler in mythvideo and your off.

i imagine it would be pretty easy to apply similar tricks to getting
pretty much any url to work with either xine or mplayer.

the only thing it can't do that seems to be a request right now is record
streams for later playback (timeshift).

chris.