2014-06-18, 20:00
Currently, when I watch a TV show using ServerWMC, the PVR client directs XBMC to stream the file directly from a shared folder on my Windows Media Center. This is fine for devices that support MPEG2 decoding and where I have a large enough pipe to accommodate the traffic.
However, there are many devices that don't do MPEG2, don't do it well, or which won't have a big enough pipe to accommodate the traffic. For a while, I've solved that problem by using PlexBMC, an XBMC plugin that integrates with the Plex Media Server and allows me to view the same shows transcoded. The downside is that I have to use the PlexBMC inferface for those shows, rather than the XBMC Live TV interface.
It seems to me that it should be fairly easy for you guys to modify ServerWMC so that when it supplies the list of Recorded Programs to XBMC and their URL/Path, that instead of providing the path to the shared folder, it could share the path/command that would cause XBMC to request the stream from PlexBMC via the Plex Media Server.
This would allow ServerWMC to provide full transcoding to Mpeg4, and all you guys would have to do is make a simple change to the referral link.
Any thoughts or interest in doing this?
However, there are many devices that don't do MPEG2, don't do it well, or which won't have a big enough pipe to accommodate the traffic. For a while, I've solved that problem by using PlexBMC, an XBMC plugin that integrates with the Plex Media Server and allows me to view the same shows transcoded. The downside is that I have to use the PlexBMC inferface for those shows, rather than the XBMC Live TV interface.
It seems to me that it should be fairly easy for you guys to modify ServerWMC so that when it supplies the list of Recorded Programs to XBMC and their URL/Path, that instead of providing the path to the shared folder, it could share the path/command that would cause XBMC to request the stream from PlexBMC via the Plex Media Server.
This would allow ServerWMC to provide full transcoding to Mpeg4, and all you guys would have to do is make a simple change to the referral link.
Any thoughts or interest in doing this?