[mythtvnz] How feasible is this...?

[Steven Ellis]

Time for a flame war?

On Fri, October 26, 2007 2:40 pm, Robin Gilks wrote:
>
>> Yeah defiantly be keen on a couple..
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz
>> [mailto:mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz] On Behalf Of Steve Lang
>> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 10:58 AM
>> To: MythTV in NZ
>> Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] How feasible is this...?
>>
>> Current one is on demo from the distributor whom is 'testing' the
>> market. The first shipment is long gone.
>>
>> If you want, I'll check to see if/when they're bringing more in. A bit
>> unclear what the price will be.
>>
>> Cheers -
>>
>> Craig Spiers wrote:
>>> Who stocks these units in NZ?
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz
>>> [mailto:mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz] On Behalf Of Steve Lang
>>> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:46 PM
>>> To: MythTV in NZ
>>> Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] How feasible is this...?
>>>
>>> Hey.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> VLC can encode to many types of streams. The normal is like a
>>>> Mutlicast
>>>> MPEG4 h264 stream or simple MPEG2 stream.  (Or windows media. etc etc
>> etc)
>>>>
>>> .
>>>
>>>> What format can your Player receive?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Shoutcast for internet radio, but i don't know of any video streaming
>>> options. It does hi-def (720p) and has some other 'nice' features like
>>> being able to play an .iso image mounted on a windows share. But no
>>> video streaming as far as I know. http://www.ziova.com/cs505.php
>>>
>>> However, I did read that someone configured twonkyvision (upnp server)
>>> to talk to vlc and in effect send the tv stream to the player as a
>>> standard (presumeably mpeg2) upnp file. That is really what I want to
>>> duplicate, but instead pull many channels off, preferably get the EPG
>>> from satellite, and save the streams as 'episodes'. E.g..
>>> 20071025 18:00 TV1 One News at 6:00pm.avi
>>> 20071025 19:00 TV1 CloseUp.avi
>>> etc. etc. etc.
>>>
>>> That would make it quite usable with a standard 'dumb' upnp player.
>>>
>>> Cheers -
>>>
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>
>
> <grumble>
> Can anyone make sense of the order of posts in this message?
>
> As this mailing list etiquette requires and as good practice:
>    Please *BOTTOM POST ONLY*
>    Use a consistent quote character in replies
>    Trim off the extraneous tag/sig lines
> </grumble>
>
> Thanks
>

Personally I dislike bottom posting.


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