[mythtv-users] streaming to windows (directly through myth)

Phill Edwards philledwards at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 01:19:16 UTC 2006


> I have no problems opening the .nuv files when I mount the TV recording with
> Samba. (I.E., I installed samba on my mythbackend box, then mount the TV
> directory on my Windows computer, and open the files using VLC.) The
> filenames are pretty cryptic, but if you see what you want to watch in
> mythweb, you can mouse over the link, look at the filename, and then open
> that one in VLC.

But that's not streaming. It's just opening a file remotely on the
samba share which will work find on a 100Mbps LAN but if you wanted to
access it from anywhere else it wouldn't work as you'd have to
download the whole file before it plays.

Regards,
Phill


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