[mythtv-users] HTTP progressive download possible?

[Karl Dietz]

On 09.06.2012 15:55, George Nassas wrote:
> On 2012-06-08, at 10:50 PM, 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
>> filehttp://whatever <http://whatever/>'. Sure enough, the video
>> started playing. Awesome!
>
> Am I reading this correctly? It sounds like you're trying to play
> streams with a mythfrontend & that's not the purpose of the feature.

I thought the ability to directly playback via HTTP is one step towards
enabling mythfrontend to act as UPNP media renderer.

The extension of the backend to supply ios style http-live-streaming is
unrelated but also using http for transport.

Regards,
Karl