I have a number of underpowered clients attached to mythtv. They are only capable of displaying RTjpeg in realtime. mpeg4 demands simply too much.
I would like to see an on-the-fly transcoding feature in mythtv. I have had a small look at the myth protocol and noticed that filetransfer commands are used to stream stuff to the clients. I would assume that it is neccessary to hook into those commands and provide access to a virtual file with virtual offsets that is generated on the fly via transcoding. In addition, I'm not sure how skipping forward/backward works. I heard some strange rumours that mythtv stores seek offsets in a mysql table. Are they directly fetched by the client or are they used by mythbackend? What code has to be modified that transcoding like this will work. I'm sorry for this unspecific question, but I rather ask the core developers before touch stuff, so I can estimate for me if it's worth the time to add such a feature. Judging from mythtranscode this seems doable but who knows.. This feature is also wanted by the mvpmc folks. In their case, they want to transcode to mpeg2 on-the-fly. Regards, Clemens -- Fruhwirth Clemens - http://clemens.endorphin.org for robots: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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