[Luna] Further testing with VLC

[Andrew Roazen]

I wrote:
> Remember, this box has a web interface accessible from any household 
> computer. Besides using that to remotely control programming and view 
> listings, I realized last night that the thumbnails in "Previously 
> Recorded" were hotlinks to the actual MPEGs on the Myth box. Myth docs 
> claim you need a Linux mythfrontend client to manage a /streaming 
> /server-client relationship between boxes... however, I have a feeling 
> that replacing the web interface's file hotlink with an exec 
> <http://us2.php.net/function.exec> to VLC's CLI for streaming 
> <http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch03.html> (and an 
> embed for the moz-VLC plugin 
> <http://www.videolan.org/doc/vlc-user-guide/en/ch07.html> on the 
> client side) would make this a more platform neutral solution.
Further testing last night confirmed my suspicions... and reminded me 
that any computer with a TV tuner card and VLC can be used to stream 
live television around your network, and I was able to successfully 
stream both live and recorded programming to my Mac. This may not sound 
impressive to everyone reading this, but bear in mind that the server's 
streaming live video /over a wireless connection/ through a router. 
Apparently a 108Mbps 802.11g PCI card has a fat enough pipe to do this. 
That's unicast mode, though; no idea what multicasting or multiple 
unicast streams would do to performance.
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