On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Smith wrote: > > Chris Carey wrote: > >> MythTV for iPhone allows you to watch your TV shows recorded on your > >> MythTV DVR on your iPhone. > >> > > > > Awesome!!! I presume it will also work with iPod Touch? > > Should. It's a just a web app, although designed to work in Safari on > the iPhone/iPod. All the magic of actually watching the shows is simply > a transcoding to mpeg-4 on the backend, and then embedding the video in > a html page that the built-in quicktime viewer (hardware accelerated of > course) can display. Very simple concept, but very cool, and well done. > However you can't watch live TV. For me, personally, I don't care much > about live TV, so it promises to work very well. > > I presume the code that will be released is the custom web backend stuff > (kind of like mythweb, but for the iPhone). Thanks Chris! > > Michael
Yep, you're on the money. It's just a web app that is the equivalent to MythWeb, but with Joe Hewett's iUI iPhone/iPod interface so it looks pretty on the iPhone/iTouch. I would also like to incorporate the iPhone remote for MythTV into this project (if it's license allows it), but that is a lower priority: http://www.legatissimo.info/node/355 It would be awesome if we could get ffmpeg to transcode on-the-fly and stream on a file that is still being written to. This could open up the door to live TV watching. However, on my hardware it is taking appx 1 hour to transcode the file to quicktime on a 1 hour show! not too snappy, not sure if on-the-fly will be possible. There are already significant improvements on my development branch over what is being shown in the demo. -- Chris /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
