Does MediaPortal stream the video? (1 Viewer)

[kenny782]

I'm looking at using MyMovies Windows Home Server Edition (My Movies - Home)
Which your software can use as a data provider according to their site.

My question is would your software being streaming the video or what?
I'm making a vpn connection to my machine at home over the internet from my laptop.
So now I'm as good as plugged into my router, all ports available, except I'm in a low bandwith enviroment.

Could I launch media portal, pick a movie and let it stream to me in the background while I'm watching.
Like YouTube would for example? Or is that just beyond what's it's designed to do?

Thanks,

Kenny

 

[funkstar]

MediaPortal isn't designed to do this. Live and time shifted TV is streamed over an RTSP connection, but there is not re-encoding, it just streams in whatever format it was captured/recorded in.

things like MyMovies are handled by the client as opposed to the server, so they would be pulled directly off a network share or something similar.

Remote streaming, also known as place-shifting is something that might be possible in MediaPortal 2, but that is a long way off at the moment