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

[Darren]

Kevin,

Thanks for the information, I will investigate further. 

Regards,

Darren

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 02:32, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> 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 ??
> 
> 
> 
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