[mythtv-users] HTTP progressive download possible?

Erik Jensen eriksjunk at laurelwoodart.com
Sat Jun 9 17:50:12 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>wrote:

> On 6/8/2012 22:50, Erik Jensen wrote:
>
>> I was really excited to try out the new HTTP streaming functionality in
>> 0.25. After upgrading, I connected via telnet and typed 'play file
>> http://whatever'. Sure enough, the video started playing. Awesome!
>>
>> However, I noticed that the time indicator always reads 0:01 of 0:01,
>> and seeking does not work. Attempting to seek backward starts the video
>> over from the beginning, and attempting to seek forward does nothing.
>>
>> It would be really cool if the video could start downloading as soon as
>> playback starts, and then let you seek around in the part that had been
>> downloaded so far. This would basically make HTTP streaming work the
>> same way that live tv works (with the exception that non-live streams
>> could be retrieved faster than real time).
>>
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at.  HLS merely means a
> playlist defining the video stream, combined with a bunch of short video
> chunks that can be downloaded independently by the client.  I believe we
> currently use chunks 10 seconds long.  It's up to the client to properly
> handle seeking, not the server.
>

Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. I'm not talking about the new HTTP Live
Streaming functionality, I'm talking about the new-in-0.25 ability for the
frontent to play http:// urls.
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