Today it was announced “videocenter” for maemo. Videocenter is an application to receive video streams, download videos and also manage your videos on the platform.You have services like Internet videos (rss), Internet TV, Remote EPG and soon you will also have Video Remote. Ow, and there is also one tab to manage the videos you have in your device and in your mmc.
This Video Remote feature that is missing on this release will be able to get streams from MythTV and some other services that you can run on your own machine (even ftp server). Now let’s explain why it’s not there: there is a bug on osso-media-engine that prevents the MythTV to properly work. The process of streaming from MythTV is very trick because we have to transcode the video before sending for the device as most of the users have DVB at their home, and because of this bug on osso-media-engine it doesn’t wait enough time for buffering (for users that are still using analog tv cards it just works fine). In order to receive this MythTV stream the user needs to install the gmyth library on the desktop that will work as the transcoder: the best option is to use the same desktop where you have MythTV backend.
Well, the best way of showing something is with a video, so here it is!
PS: if the movie is not that good it’s because Marko Sakkinen just shooted me too much yesterday on paintball! =P
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Is there any way to imagine VideoCenter could act as an UPnP client/control point ?
Well, VideoCenter is plugin based so maybe sometime in the future we could have such kind of plugin. It’s definitely not impossible to do that. Maybe next version.. 😉
So, in principle, it could be possible to integrate vdr support as well as mythtv? I know that currently there’s some script around to stream live tv from vdr using streamdev on vdr side and python/mplayer on the tablet side (scripts that I confess I hadn’t time to test yet), but proper integration with epg, timers and recordings would be really nice.
Yes. The mythtv plugin that you can see on the video support epg, timers and recordings…it’s working 100%. We just need some fixes on osso-media-server for livetv and we hope that they will be released on next firmware update. br,
Yes, I saw the demo with mythtv, but I use vdr, so I was wondering if it would be possible to do the something similar with it
http://cadsoft.de/vdr/
Yes, it’s possible to do make a plugin to use vdr. Maybe if you could fill in a “feature request” on Videocenter’s bugzilla, so the whole team knows about this…it would be great. Videocenter is based on plugins and it should not be difficult to make a plugin to vdr.
BR!
Is ‘Video center’ able to stream videos from stage6.com? theyre using divx encoding. Bitrate and resolution might be too high for N800 though..
You should give it a try…maybe trying to play with an external player like mplayer. That should work..
Thanks!
=)
hi, really found intresting , can you please help n8x0 user to install and use guideline step-by-step .
that’s gonna be great help for me specially…
kind regards.
dave