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Subject: Ability to view LiveTV streams at lower bitrate
LiveTV in general works well on non-HD streams where the bitrate is manageable by my network and system.
However, LiveTV proves essentially useless when watching HD streams since the bitrate exceeds the ability of my network to transmit it and/or my laptop to play and decode it without continual pauses and hiccoughs.
And this is playing over a LAN. Playing Live HD over a WAN is a non-starter (at least for me)
Given that HD is becoming more prevalent, it seems like this will be an increasing problem.
So, is there any way to adjust the bitrate say by doing some type of on-the-fly transcoding or is this outside of the existing capabilities of mythtv itself and would it be better to use some other streaming solution such as mythstreamtv/vlc?
It would be really cool though to have a native mythtv stream stepped down to a low bitrate so that I could watch a small live tv screen on my Windoze laptop from anywhere in my house without taxing my network or laptop.
Thanks
However, LiveTV proves essentially useless when watching HD streams since the bitrate exceeds the ability of my network to transmit it and/or my laptop to play and decode it without continual pauses and hiccoughs.
And this is playing over a LAN. Playing Live HD over a WAN is a non-starter (at least for me)
Given that HD is becoming more prevalent, it seems like this will be an increasing problem.
So, is there any way to adjust the bitrate say by doing some type of on-the-fly transcoding or is this outside of the existing capabilities of mythtv itself and would it be better to use some other streaming solution such as mythstreamtv/vlc?
It would be really cool though to have a native mythtv stream stepped down to a low bitrate so that I could watch a small live tv screen on my Windoze laptop from anywhere in my house without taxing my network or laptop.
Thanks
