[mythtv-users] Minimizing bandwidth with MPEG-4

[Preston Crow]

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 11:26, D Banerjee wrote:
> I've been thinking of doing this for quite a while, having a proxy/lo-res
> video automatically transcoded after recording and kept in parallel for use
> either by a remote frontend or DSMyth filter. I think your real problem is
> buffering. If you're using frontend, it's not very tolerant of losing it's
> data source. If you try using the DSMyth filter on windows however, it will
> let you play while you are still buffering, so you can keep it paused for a
> few minutes and then you should be all set. I've experimented with this a
> little, but I'd like to get a proxy version of frontend going, so I could
> cygwin/mythfrontend into the system when I'm on the road.

Yeah, using mythfrontend might not work so well, but it would be great
with mythweb.

--PC