Here's a piece of software I've been dreaming about:
An add on to DVArchive that shows xvid/divx videos in it's ReplayGuide (on other ReplayTV's). When another replay decides to stream that video then the PC running DVArchive must convert the xvid/divx to ReplayTV compliant mpeg2 on the fly. This could be used for any type of content, not just xvid or divx. I've seen it mentioned for mp3, but it was eventually abandoned. I don't see why. There's so much open source software out there that the real challenge would simply be to link all of the conversion programs together.
So... I'm thinking about starting up a project. I'm not sure I could muster 2 hours a day, but I could try. The goal would be to have something running before the summer.
First step for me would be to actually run a Xvid->mpeg2->5k RTVcompliant mpeg2->stream to replay. This would be by hand, not automated or real-time.
The Xvid->mpeg2 program would not really need modifying, as long as it does not lock the output file, then it can be streamed from the output file. Creating RTVcompliant mpeg2 is a job for RTVTools I believe. It is not open source and it would need to support streaming. DVArchive would need to be modified to display different media types in the replayGuide, and to start the conversion process and stream the output to a ReplayTV.
What am I missing here, what difficulties/complications am I not seeing?
An add on to DVArchive that shows xvid/divx videos in it's ReplayGuide (on other ReplayTV's). When another replay decides to stream that video then the PC running DVArchive must convert the xvid/divx to ReplayTV compliant mpeg2 on the fly. This could be used for any type of content, not just xvid or divx. I've seen it mentioned for mp3, but it was eventually abandoned. I don't see why. There's so much open source software out there that the real challenge would simply be to link all of the conversion programs together.
So... I'm thinking about starting up a project. I'm not sure I could muster 2 hours a day, but I could try. The goal would be to have something running before the summer.
First step for me would be to actually run a Xvid->mpeg2->5k RTVcompliant mpeg2->stream to replay. This would be by hand, not automated or real-time.
The Xvid->mpeg2 program would not really need modifying, as long as it does not lock the output file, then it can be streamed from the output file. Creating RTVcompliant mpeg2 is a job for RTVTools I believe. It is not open source and it would need to support streaming. DVArchive would need to be modified to display different media types in the replayGuide, and to start the conversion process and stream the output to a ReplayTV.
What am I missing here, what difficulties/complications am I not seeing?