Opened 14 years ago
Closed 14 years ago
#2660 closed enhancement (fixed)
PATCH: enable mythweb streaming via .asx
| Reported by: | Owned by: | xris | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | 0.21 |
| Component: | mythweb | Version: | 0.20 |
| Severity: | low | Keywords: | stream asx |
| Cc: | Ticket locked: | no |
Description
This is modeled slightly after the TivoWebPlus? functionality where a small .asx file is generated and downloaded to the client. When that file is opened on the client (usually automatically), the respective player (Windows Media Player, mplayer, totem, etc) reads the contents of the .asx file, and accesses the media as defined in the .asx file, which, in this case, is the direct URL to the full media file. The client then buffers and plays the media as it is being downloaded.
The current handler.pl implementation did not allow for this functionality as it required the entire mpg to be downloaded to the client before the client would act upon it.
This works for Windows and Linux clients. It has been tested against Windows Media Player, Totem, and mplayer.
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Change History (4)
comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by
In the patch, I inadvertently have it sending the file as "text/html". Where is shows: print header(-type => 'text/html',
It should have been: print header(-type => 'video/x-ms-asf',
Thanks go to catfish@… for point this one out to me. :)
comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by
You also didn't use the "root" constant to account for other directory structures, https connections or user login info (which I don't think will work with the asx stuff).
I'll see what I can do, though.
comment:3 Changed 14 years ago by
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
(In [12322]) Add asx streaming support to the current stream handler. This closes #2660. Keep in mind that a 'recording details' page is still in the works to actually provide the link to the asx downloader, so this commit doesn't actually provide an interface to use the asx stuff (though it's really just a matter of adding .asx to the end of the current download URL)
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