[mythtv] gmyth livetv transcode support

[Melunko]

Hi Christian, thanks. This is good news, since I never tried with DVB-C. If
you have any other results, please tell me.

[]s,
Melunko

On 5/17/07, Christian Fredriksson <ille at ludd.ltu.se> wrote:
>
> Melunko wrote:
> > Hi Matt, sure.
> >
> > gmyth svn:  https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gmyth/trunk
> >
> > To play livetv with gmyth is very simple:
> >
> > - Compile and install gmyth (dpkg-buildpackage works)
> > - Run:
> >     $ gmyth-cat -h hostname -p 6543 -c chan_num | mplayer -nocache -
> >
> >  where hostname is the mythtv backend address. If it freezes, try
> > -cache 1000.
> >
> > - You can list the channels available:
> >     $ gmyth-ls -h hostname -p 6543 -u mythtv -w mythtv -c
> >
> > We are writing a tutorial about how to use gmyth-stream, but if
> > gmyth-cat works fine, livetv transcode will be fine as well.
> >
> > BR,
> > Melunko
> >
> >
> > On 5/17/07, * devel at mrwire.co.uk <mailto:devel at mrwire.co.uk>*
> > <devel at mrwire.co.uk <mailto:devel at mrwire.co.uk>> wrote:
> >
> >     Any chance of some links/more info?
> >
> >     Matt
> >
> >
> >               Hello there,
> >
> >     I am part of the team that is developing gmyth library. We have
> >     had interesting results to access several mythtv backend content
> >     remotely and one relevant contribution was the livetv transcode
> >     solution we had made based on gmyth, gmyth-stream and two
> >     different transcode engines: mencoder and gstreamer. This set of
> >     SW allow us to play mythtv channels remotely in any format we
> >     would like. This is particularly relevant for small linux based
> >     devices with wlan capability that could consume Mythtv content
> >     straightforward.
> >
> >     We have tested this solution in our analog TV environment and it
> >     would be very valuable to us if someone could try this solution in
> >     another environment and contribute to gmyth. So, please, if anyone
> >     is interested in this topic, be our guest.
> >
> >
> >     BR,
> >     Hallyson Melo
> >
> >
> Nice work!
>
> gmyth-cat works well for me with DVB-C (PAL) on my Ubuntu 6.10 laptop.
> My backend version is 0.20-fixes
>
> /Christian
>
>
>
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