Re: [Mvpmc-devel] [Mvpmc-users] VLC setup problems...
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From: stuart <st...@xn...> - 2009-05-13 13:16:57
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Chase Douglas wrote: > On May 13, 2009, at 1:26 AM, Tom Metro wrote: >> stuart wrote: >>> Find out what happened to Chase's iTouch/iPhone project. Looked >>> like a >> Yes, that proxy sounded like the least effort way to inject real-time >> transcoding into the MythTV system while retaining the full >> functionality of the client. > > A quick update on this. I've stopped working on the transcode proxy in > the form I initially was using. I've been working with a MythTV dev > who has worked some on getting a libav* encoding solution inside the > MythTV libraries. I have used his patch to transcode recordings using > mythtranscode to other video formats and containers. I also modified > mythtranscode so it can transcode live tv recordings. > > My current idea is to have a frontend connect like usual to the > backend and start a recording. Instead of querying for data from the > backend, the frontend will then connect to a transcode proxy which > will simply wrap mythtranscode and shuffle the output to the frontend. > > At any point it would be helpful if people could test out my work and/ > or contribute. I've got an svn repo with my own branch of MythTV trunk > at http://svn.assembla.com/svn/legend/mythtv/transcode-br. Note that > it's still very early, and many issues have yet to be worked out. > > Thanks, > Chase I'm in such a hurry right now, I'll ask better questions later... For now: many of us who use mythtv hesitate loading up the SVN version. The released mythtv is difficult to stabilize to the point of general user acceptance. In my case, I've over a T-byte on MBE/SBE machines yet the ReplayTV is still the preferred PVR. Has anyone dealt w/this issue here and resolved it? -thanks |