Andy Foster wrote: > This question rears its ugly head every couple of months but I'm a > little baffled by what is needed, minimally, to stream videos from myth. > > Some people say they're able to play simply by installing dsmyth, > clicking on the myth://hostname:6543/xyz.mpg link in the appropriate > browser, and the media player of choice launches and starts streaming. > > I don't understand how they do this at all. This is the myth protocol, > and thats the mythbackend address, but how does their media player > understand the myth:// uri? As I understand it in this case the media > player is basically being launched with the uri as an argument. I have > tried this with wmp, media player classic and videolan client, none of > them comprehend the myth:// uri, and my backend log shows no access > attempts. > > As an alternative I tried disabling the url rewriting for windows > clients so that myweb simply provides a > http://hostname/valid/path/to/files.mpg . When I click this, it > prompts me to download it. I can download and then watch it without > problems (unless the file is over 2gb, but thats another matter), but > considering the sizes involved I'd prefer to stream. If I put this uri > directly into videolan, it works > > Both of these behaviours seem to be correct to me, but are > unfortunately not what I want. So how do I either: > 1. make the media players understand the myth protocol? > 2. make my browser (firefox) allow me to pass the http:// uri to the > program of my choosing? > > I understand there are a lot of workarounds for this, including samba > shares (I've tried this but similarly have not been able to launch > anything from a valid file:// uri), videolan on both client and > server, but I would really like to keep this minimal, as well as be > able to use the media player of my choice. MythStreamTV (not so great on the minimal side, but...)
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