No segmented mpeg via m3u8 on anything but APPL devices, it's their standard, like microsofts smooth streaming (though I do some STB guys who have written a linux app to handle smooth streaming chunks)... but there's nothing for android yet that I am aware.
It's true for streaming to mobile devices, and well really any IP connected devices, some form of adaptive bit rate streaming over HTTP is the way to go. It's funny, the company that pioneered this stuff Move Networks is basically out of business but Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe (plus the big CDN's like Akamai and Limelight) are all moving towards HTTP streaming.
For the OP, it's H.264 as everyone and their mother has said so far, works on both handsets you're talking about and is easy. FFMpeg is probably doing the work regardless of what front end wrapper you're putting on it.
Agreed. For what the OP is asking for, any of the HD flavored tivo's is ideal.
Coupled with pytivo you can throw pretty much anything you ever have at it, and when it comes to the best DVR, tivo wins hands down.
There simply is NO (reasonable) argument (that I can think of) to be made disputing that fact. The tivo UI/UX (despite whatever issues one may have with it) is just better than every other option out there.
I've fooled around with everything under the sun starting with the first xbox based xbmc builds up to a win7 MCE HTPC. Fun to mess around with, not fun to rely on long term and add in the WAF and it's over.
I use my tivo's for everything and stopped futzing around with all these other "projects"
Unless of course you get your television from a satellite based provider then... I got nothin'
No, it's not worthless, it lacks a feature you want.
Personally it's super for me, it will record the HD broadcasts of the football games I currently use a vastly inferior SA box from my cable co to record. I have no need to extract or archive that. I certainly have no interest in extracting any network television show, since I would never want to watch that more then once.
Perhaps, I could become interested in extraction for a movie on HBO or something, but yo know it's not necessary. I'm pretty happy to rent/buy a film I want to see more then once.
You might want to consider the way you word your subject lines. I would would have used something like:
If I cannot extract recorded programs...
Imagine taking a photo of a street corner to find out where you are, or the photo of a city building to see its history
or a photo of your wife to see...
oh never mind.
I'd think most peoples' motivation is to save the time of viewing commercials, not because of some aversion to advertising.
I have an intense aversion to advertising. It's not just the time I'm saving, it's the crap that I'm not seeing. Being told I'm a "good" dad because I took my kid to eat a McDonald's hamburger or bought some crappy ass brand of peanut butter or GASP went to Disneyland is an insult and genuienly makes me angry. Further, being told that NOW is the right time to buy a car for the 14th year in a row is a little frustrating as well.
I do NOT want to see advertising. If I need something, I'll figure out what to buy, but I have no desire in being told what I SHOULD want every 15 minutes. Advertising is so pervessive today that it seems inescapable, but I will run from it until I am dead!
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No segmented mpeg via m3u8 on anything but APPL devices, it's their standard, like microsofts smooth streaming (though I do some STB guys who have written a linux app to handle smooth streaming chunks)... but there's nothing for android yet that I am aware. It's true for streaming to mobile devices, and well really any IP connected devices, some form of adaptive bit rate streaming over HTTP is the way to go. It's funny, the company that pioneered this stuff Move Networks is basically out of business but Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe (plus the big CDN's like Akamai and Limelight) are all moving towards HTTP streaming. For the OP, it's H.264 as everyone and their mother has said so far, works on both handsets you're talking about and is easy. FFMpeg is probably doing the work regardless of what front end wrapper you're putting on it.
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Agreed. For what the OP is asking for, any of the HD flavored tivo's is ideal. Coupled with pytivo you can throw pretty much anything you ever have at it, and when it comes to the best DVR, tivo wins hands down. There simply is NO (reasonable) argument (that I can think of) to be made disputing that fact. The tivo UI/UX (despite whatever issues one may have with it) is just better than every other option out there. I've fooled around with everything under the sun starting with the first xbox based xbmc builds up to a win7 MCE HTPC. Fun to mess around with, not fun to rely on long term and add in the WAF and it's over. I use my tivo's for everything and stopped futzing around with all these other "projects" Unless of course you get your television from a satellite based provider then... I got nothin'
No, it's not worthless, it lacks a feature you want. Personally it's super for me, it will record the HD broadcasts of the football games I currently use a vastly inferior SA box from my cable co to record. I have no need to extract or archive that. I certainly have no interest in extracting any network television show, since I would never want to watch that more then once.
Perhaps, I could become interested in extraction for a movie on HBO or something, but yo know it's not necessary. I'm pretty happy to rent/buy a film I want to see more then once.
You might want to consider the way you word your subject lines. I would would have used something like:
If I cannot extract recorded programs...
just sayin' -dm
PSSST... they announced it at LAST YEARS CES.
Not Kidding
-dm
Imagine taking a photo of a street corner to find out where you are, or the photo of a city building to see its history
or a photo of your wife to see...
oh never mind.
I'd think most peoples' motivation is to save the time of viewing commercials, not because of some aversion to advertising.
I have an intense aversion to advertising. It's not just the time I'm saving, it's the crap that I'm not seeing. Being told I'm a "good" dad because I took my kid to eat a McDonald's hamburger or bought some crappy ass brand of peanut butter or GASP went to Disneyland is an insult and genuienly makes me angry. Further, being told that NOW is the right time to buy a car for the 14th year in a row is a little frustrating as well. I do NOT want to see advertising. If I need something, I'll figure out what to buy, but I have no desire in being told what I SHOULD want every 15 minutes. Advertising is so pervessive today that it seems inescapable, but I will run from it until I am dead!