[mythtv-users] nuv patch for videolan for streaming server?
Jeff
jeff at intersystems.com
Fri Feb 6 08:51:37 EST 2004
At 09:19 PM 2/5/2004 -0800, Chris Germano wrote:
>Cool, well I can help, I guess it depends how compatible VideoLAN is right
>now with MythNUV files. I'll quickly check it out right now. This would be
>an awesome feature. Just login online, click a recorded show and have it
>stream it to a player, or java app, whatever. I'm not quite sure what vlan
>actually supports. I'll look into it further.
I've done a lot of playing around with this. I took the mythlink script and
modified it to generate links with .mpg extensions. I have a cgi script that
takes the contents of my video directory and the "pretty" directory from
mythlink and puts it on a page (for testing). I link the pretty directory
into the
html/mythweb directory so that Apache can serve the files.
If you install the directshow filter for Myth (search for DSMYTH) then
RealPlayer 10
and BSPlayer will play these files from an http link. videolan (vlc) will
not, or at
least I couldn't get it to, maybe I didn't wait long enough for it to start.
My goal was to update mythweb so I can click on a picture and it would start
playing on my laptop.
My problem is this is only useful if you're on a LAN. Decent video
is about 10MB/minute which works out to around 170Kb/sec. The upload
rate on my cable modem tops out at 90KB/sec on a good day. I need to figure
out how to add something to play the video over a "slow" connection.
I played with the Darwin server for QuickTime and the Helix DNA server.
Neither of these seem to be good solutions as they require a lot of
processing on the host before you can serve the file. I had problems getting
the producer for Helix DNA to process my files so I didn't really evaluate that
product properly. My current "guess" is to try and fire up something on the
server
to reduce the framerate to something more appropriate for the connection
speed.
I was going to inspect the host address to figure out whether its on the local
lan or tunneled in via SSH to pick a frame rate.
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