[mythtv-users] Mythtube: Internet Video on Demand

[Cory Zerwas]

Wow!  I am going to implement this over the weekend.  For those people who
are less savvy, what will it take to get this functionality on the
development roadmap?

On 11/8/06, Jeff volckaert <jvolckaert at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/8/06, Michael Tiller <michael.tiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there a way to do this without the user job?  In other words, do the
> > encoding on the fly?  Also, I didn't understand the necessity to strip
> the
> > commercials (what is a B-frame?).  The commercial flagging isn't 100% so
> I
> > prefer to skip rather than remove the commercials (just in case).
> >
> > It seems like this would be a fabulous extension to MythWeb (especially
> if
> > you could make it do the encoding on the fly).  Any chance (and
> interest)
> > for merging it into MythWeb?
> >
> > --
> > Mike
>
> I don't know anyway to kick off the mencoder via PHP.  It takes about
> 15-20 mins to encode an hour long video so it would certainly work.
> The B-frame issue is just something I saw as a problem with mencoder
> and noticed that transcode strips them out anyway.  If you just did
> the lossless transcoding without commercial skip you would get the
> same stripping.  I haven't tried transcoding an original file to see
> if it bombs.
>
> I like the idea of transcoding the files to separate directory under
> apache and having the small php app that displays the flv filenames.
> That way I don't have to use mythtweb or give access to mythweb if
> someone else wants to watch the videos.  It's just VERY clean and
> simple.
>
> BTW, As Stuart pointed out there is a way to flash video under Mythweb
> from the Wiki.  It's very similar in that it does a user job to
> transcode (via ffmpeg instead of mencoder) and shows how to change
> Mythweb to link to it.
>
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Stream_mythtv_recordings_from_mythweb_using_flash_video
>
> Jeff
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