[mythtv-users] Can I mythexport without transcoding?

Another Sillyname anothersname at googlemail.com
Fri Sep 3 17:09:59 UTC 2010


On 3 September 2010 17:44, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Friday, September 03, 2010 09:58:47 am John Baab wrote:
>> > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > I'd like a way to export my recordings to an RSS feed I could
>> > > subscribe
>> > > to from another computer. I want the exports to retain their default
>> > > resolution / bitrate / etc and since they're MPG I assume they will
>> > > play
>> > > on other Windows / Linux / Mac machines without issue.  I've
>> > > successfully mythexported recordings to iPod format but it appears
>> > > that
>> > > mythexport sends everything through ffmpeg and transcodes it. Is there
>> > > a
>> > > way to use mythexport (I'm open to other methods) to create a
>> > > non-transcoded RSS feed?
>> > >
>> > > Thanks in advance.
>>
>> > The symlink option should work for you.  Just be careful about how
>> > much data you may be pushing around.
>>
>>
>> Indeed, if this is for use on your local network you should be OK.
>>
>> But most residential internet accounts have glacial outbound speeds,
>> measured in bits per fortnight. If you plan to export
>> video to the outside world you may need to upgrade to a business class
>> account and pay for reasonable upstream bandwidth.
>>
>> Transcoding is a way to reduce the amount of data you need to export.
>>
>> Running a server of any sort often violates the TOS for residential
>> accounts, just something to be aware of.
>>
>>
>
> Thanks. What is this symlink option you speak of?  I see that mythexport
> does create one called mythexport which just links to the export directory.
> If I could symlink to the recordings but retain the recording info in an rss
> feed that would be nice.
>
> And I understand the ramifications of doing this over the internet, 99% of
> my recordings are H.264 and huge, so I don't plan on going that route. I
> don't have a real end goal yet, this is more of a what-can-I-do-with-Myth
> kind of thing. One thing I'm trying is to subscribe to my mythexport feed
> via Mirobridge on another Myth box, just to see how well it works.
>
> On another note, the On The Go recordings sounds close to what I want but it
> doesn't put it in RSS feed or easily "subscribable' format, it just dumps
> the shows to files that I then need to hit with mythimport.
>
> One could theoretically write an RSS interface to mythweb and that might be
> exactly what I'd need but I can't write code so that's out. Perhaps a
> feature request?
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>
>

Matt

Perhaps you could give an outline of exactly what you're trying to
achieve and people could suggest a different way to get to the end
result?

For example I'm trying to get my head around why you would use an RSS
feed to distribute the information rather then a pull from a web link.
 Are you wanting to remotely automatically pull the program based on
it being in the RSS list?


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list