[mythtv-users] Streaming video from web

Marc Nicholas marc at geekythings.com
Tue Nov 16 05:39:10 UTC 2004


Well, once I get a solid foundation for my Myth environment, I'd like to 
have web transcoding/streaming as an option too. So you're not the only 
one :-)


-marc

Dave Packham wrote:

>Yeah.  That would be nice.  My next door neighbor runs SnapStream and it
>has a on the fly transcode (downcoding) for him to watch on a lower
>bandwidth device, functionality from the webpage.  Even though its nice
>to be able to click on it now and have MythWeb serve up the raw NUV
>files... Its not all the time that im on a fast enough link.  Sometime I
>would really like to watch a show from a DSL link or conference wireless
>setup.  Launching VLC as a client app by some helper hook would be
>really cool.  VLC is a great client AND server app...  Maybe I'd make
>some cool themes for VLC that would allow it to look and feel like
>MythTv Themes....  
>
>Dave P 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Marc Nicholas
>Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 7:19 PM
>To: Discussion about mythtv
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Streaming video from web
>
>I think Dave's referring to getting VLC acting as a "helper application"
>
>so that you can clock on URL and have a stream delivered.
>
>Obviously you can circumvent the above :-)
>
>-marc
>
>Brad Fuller wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Dave Packham wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>I use vlc on my AMD opt.  No probs... Hmm  how will you get VLC to 
>>>fire off and start streaming and call a media player of some sort from
>>>      
>>>
>
>  
>
>>>the web page?
>>>
>>>Streaming a file with VLC is easy.  The hard part will be  finding a 
>>>way to fire off the client side app..  Like VLC on your notebook to 
>>>receive the transcoded stream
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>I don't quite follow you, Dave. I know nothing about these two apps, 
>>but I thought VLC was the client app and VLS was the streaming server 
>>one. I was refering to VLS.
>>
>>If you did compile VLS on a 64bit, did you change any source?
>>
>>    
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>>>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Brad Fuller
>>>Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 4:52 PM
>>>To: Discussion about mythtv
>>>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Streaming video from web
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Marc Nicholas wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>You're making things overly complicated. Why convert to RealMedia 
>>>>when
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>you likely already have files in MPEG format?
>>>>
>>>>http://www.vidoelan.org
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>This is cool. I dnl'd and tried to make. All the libraries compiled 
>>>except for the main vls (streaming) app on AMD64. Several errors in 
>>>/src/code/application.cpp of conflicting types:  'typedef uint64_t
>>>      
>>>
>u64'
>  
>
>>>Anyone get this to work on 64bit? This would be a very good solution 
>>>in my particular setup.
>>>
>>>thanks,
>>>
>>>brad
>>>_______________________________________________
>>>mythtv-users mailing list
>>>mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>>>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>>>
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>--
>>>
>>>_______________________________________________
>>>mythtv-users mailing list
>>>mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>>>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>-
>>
>>_______________________________________________
>>mythtv-users mailing list
>>mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>> 
>>
>>    
>>
>
>_______________________________________________
>mythtv-users mailing list
>mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>
>
>  
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>_______________________________________________
>mythtv-users mailing list
>mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>  
>



More information about the mythtv-users mailing list