[mythtv-users] Where/Why did myth:// urls go?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/25/2008 09:46 PM, Matthew Jurgens wrote:
> The 0.21 release notes make a brief mention about these URLs
> "Fixed myth:// URLs".
>
> These appear to have been replaced by the ASX and "Direct Download" links.
> The myth:// urls used to let me redirect a player to start reading the 
> file off a samba share.
> The major advantage that these players had over the ASX and FLVs are 
> that you could seek in the recording.
> Now there appears no way to be able to seek in the ASX and FLV and now 
> that you can't automatically redirect a player to a samba share I have 
> to manually look in the samba share to try and find the recordings I 
> want to watch.
>
> Who uses the Direct Download link? Are we supposed to download the whole 
> huge video file before we watch it?
> Even on GB ethernet at say 50MB/s this takes 100 seconds for a 5GB file. 
> Good luck getting those speeds.
> Additionally this forces the client to duplicate the video file on their 
> own disk.
>
> Can we put the myth:// urls back - why were they considered broken?
> Could we perhaps have another like besides the ASX and Direct download 
> links which linked directly to a samba share?