[mythtv] How to integrate streaming content

[Eric]

 Yes, the software tuner that provides channels sounds reasonable. The 
mythstream plugin experiment is built as a tuner. It however isn't integrated 
into mythtv as suggested (channels) and it also handles non-stream url's (web 
playlists). But tagging url's that actually play as channels is no problem. 
That data can be used by a tuner.

 A tuner per format is no-good I think: the user shouldn't be bothered with 
things like formats.

 Jeff's outline of stream implementation is focussed upon recording, centering 
recording of available content around gereric channels. These channels then 
enable recording of audio or video content, streamed or not. This places 
stream sources in mythtv. 

As an alternative, In my last mail I suggested integration of streams in 
mythmusic and mythvideo - wich has a focus on content form (audio versus 
video) and play. Isaac has stated that this is the way streamplay should be 
implemented in mythtv.

And there is the current unofficial implementation of mythstream that has a 
focus on play: integration of audio and video play in one dedicated stream 
plugin. 

 So you can see streaming from different perspectives. It's tv, radio, video, 
audio. You can listen, watch or record it and browse through lists of it. I 
guess an option is to enable it all, through complete integration, making 
streams as invisible as possible. 

This provides for Matt's recording backend, contolled through Jeff's generic 
channels, meeting with Isaacs requirements (I think). 
It will be a huge task, also requiring major changes to the presentation of 
content in mythmusic and mythvideo. One first step is...?

--> about the CC-issue: I clearly misinterpreted not getting a CC as a signal 
no answer is expected/wanted. 

Eric.



On Friday 09 January 2004 18:25, Jeff Clowser wrote:
> Not sure how this would be coded, and I'm still in the process of
> completing my myth setup, so some of this may or may not make 100% sense :)
>
> However, the ideal way I'd like to see streaming stuff like Internet
> Radio, webcasts, etc work would be to add them as channels on the mythtv
> guide (not sure how you'd put the schedule in, since obviously xmltv
> won't get these...), so that I could just select them and record them
> alongside other programs.  I suggested something like this a day or 2
> ago by way of a software tuner (in place of a hardware tuner like a
> bttv, etc card), so that you could define a tuner, set a schedule
> against it, and record stuff on it without a new mythmodule.
>
> I have no idea how much work this would be, but that would - at least to
> me - be the easiest way to _use_ it...  Don't know if you'd have to have
> a "tuner" per type (i.e. one for real audio, etc) or one tuner with
> plugins for different formats, etc, and may have to translate to a
> format Myth understands (i.e. mpeg2, etc).  Does this even sound at all
> reasonable?
>
>  - Jeff
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