Transcode with EWA

[pastro]

I'm sitting in a hotel room in Dallas wanting to transcode a file so I can download it a little quicker over the 802.11b in the hotel.
Shoot, no transcode option that I can find. Please add it to the wishlist.

[UncleJohnsBand]

I'm sitting in a hotel room in Dallas wanting to transcode a file so I can download it a little quicker over the 802.11b in the hotel.
Shoot, no transcode option that I can find. Please add it to the wishlist.

When you stream you are transcoding the file......or are you saying you want to be able to transcode the file and then download the file?

[pastro]

When you stream you are transcoding the file......or are you saying you want to be able to transcode the file and then download the file?

I want to transcode then download. Streaming is too eratic in the hotel. I tried at 256K and it kept crapping out.
Figures I would forget to open a port on my router for vnc.

[dneprrider]

I'm sitting in a hotel room in Dallas wanting to transcode a file so I can download it a little quicker over the 802.11b in the hotel.
Shoot, no transcode option that I can find. Please add it to the wishlist.

Great Idea. I have wanted to do this in the past too. I've spent too many nights away from home in hotel rooms. What I did to get around this was to use VNC to log into the computer then transcode and download the .avi file overnight.

Hope you get home soon.

[pastro]

Great Idea. I have wanted to do this in the past too. I've spent too many nights away from home in hotel rooms. What I did to get around this was to use VNC to log into the computer then transcode and download the .avi file overnight.

Hope you get home soon.

I'm here for the weekend. Kids are playing volleyball at LoneStar Classic. Pretty exciting stuff, tornados warnings forced us to evacuate the convention center floor and hide out in the basement.

I normally open a port on VNC but I left without doing it this weekend.
EWA already does the transcode, I just want it to write a file and not stream it.

[chuck_2330]

This is something I would love to see added as well. It would then mirror more of the fuctionality of the GB-PVR app in a browser.

[UncleJohnsBand]

Well....I won't be creating the ability to transcode a file on the server and then download it via EWA.....GBPVR can do the transcoding when the file is recorded or you can schedule transcoding outside of GBPVR.

What I will do is add an option to download the stream via VLC.....you basically initiate the stream and instead of clicking a button to open the player to play the stream you will click a button which will generate a batch file that you will be asked to open or save......when you run the batch file it will kick off VLC so that it receives the stream and saves it to a file on your PC.

[pastro]

Well....I won't be creating the ability to transcode a file on the server and then download it via EWA.....GBPVR can do the transcoding when the file is recorded or you can schedule transcoding outside of GBPVR.

What I will do is add an option to download the stream via VLC.....you basically initiate the stream and instead of clicking a button to open the player to play the stream you will click a button which will generate a batch file that you will be asked to open or save......when you run the batch file it will kick off VLC so that it receives the stream and saves it to a file on your PC.

Will that have the same issues with locking up that occur now with VLC playing the stream with a slow connection, or will that behave better?

[UncleJohnsBand]

Will that have the same issues with locking up that occur now with VLC playing the stream with a slow connection, or will that behave better?

If the lockup is related to pc overload on the local machine when receiving the stream I believe it will help since the video/audio are never rendered.

If the lockup occurs because the host is streaming at too high of a rate/options that what the hosts up speed bandwidth can handle then I would think you would have the same issues since that is network related and not stream related.

This will enable you to start the stream and go to bed and then watch the file later on the local machine.....without having to have the video/audio rending on the local machine while the file is being saved. VLC will be active and show that it is playing but you will not see anything other than that.