I wanted to let everyone know about a new streaming video application, StreamBaby:
you can find it at:
http://code.google.com/p/streambaby/
It is originally based off of tivostream, and has the following main features:
* Random access streaming of video files. Able to seek to anywhere in the video. Also removes need for qt-faststart.
* Attempts to work around the 1.1G limit for streaming videos on the TiVo. If you reach the 1.1G limit, the video you are watching will be paused and restarted with a fresh buffer at the position you were in before.
* Ability to FF/RWD to points in the video that have not been buffered yet. When outside of the buffer, a "preview" of the movie (low-quality static images) will appear, and when play is pressed the video stream will be repositioned to start streaming at that point (ala Netflix/TiVo)
* Realtime preview generation for most file formats. Others (mpeg in particular) use autogenerated thumbnail files.
* Ability to transcode and stream video that is not inherently TiVo compatible. Supports most wmv, avi, and mkv. Preview mode and random-positioning work with most transcoded files.
* Remembers your position in the video when you stop watching and automatically starts at that position next time you watch. Works even when exiting playing via the "TiVo" button.
Please let me know what you think, or if you have any bugs/suggestions, etc.
Also I just wanted to make sure I thanked moyekj here for his work on tivostream, as well as his efforts in testing/debugging/code suggestions on Streambaby. Thanks! Thanks also to Steve C who also helped with suggestions and testing. Their efforts have hopefully helped make Streambaby a better application.
(Apologies for the repost, it was mentioned this may be a better forum for the thread)
Keary
you can find it at:
http://code.google.com/p/streambaby/
It is originally based off of tivostream, and has the following main features:
* Random access streaming of video files. Able to seek to anywhere in the video. Also removes need for qt-faststart.
* Attempts to work around the 1.1G limit for streaming videos on the TiVo. If you reach the 1.1G limit, the video you are watching will be paused and restarted with a fresh buffer at the position you were in before.
* Ability to FF/RWD to points in the video that have not been buffered yet. When outside of the buffer, a "preview" of the movie (low-quality static images) will appear, and when play is pressed the video stream will be repositioned to start streaming at that point (ala Netflix/TiVo)
* Realtime preview generation for most file formats. Others (mpeg in particular) use autogenerated thumbnail files.
* Ability to transcode and stream video that is not inherently TiVo compatible. Supports most wmv, avi, and mkv. Preview mode and random-positioning work with most transcoded files.
* Remembers your position in the video when you stop watching and automatically starts at that position next time you watch. Works even when exiting playing via the "TiVo" button.
Please let me know what you think, or if you have any bugs/suggestions, etc.
Also I just wanted to make sure I thanked moyekj here for his work on tivostream, as well as his efforts in testing/debugging/code suggestions on Streambaby. Thanks! Thanks also to Steve C who also helped with suggestions and testing. Their efforts have hopefully helped make Streambaby a better application.
(Apologies for the repost, it was mentioned this may be a better forum for the thread)
Keary