General Information

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GMythStream (GMS) is a transcoder server developed in python. It makes live 

transcode of any input video and streams it via HTTP. The media player opens

an HTTP uri informing the input video location and the desired muxer/video/audio

formats. The GMS server parses this url and starts to transcode the input video

using one of the transcode plugins: gmencoder or mencoder. The transcoder output

is sent to the media player via the HTTP connection.

The client can also request transcode progress and the files already transcoded

and stored in the server. GMS is currently hardly used as a live transcoder for

mythtv content (recorded videos and livetv).

GMS is free software, licensed under the GNU GPL.

The official web site is:

  http://gmyth.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Information about mailing lists can be found at:

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmyth/

Our IRC channel is #gmyth on Freenode (irc.freenode.org).

Installation

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See the INSTALL file.

How to report bugs

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Bugs should be reported to the GMyth SourceForge bug tracking system.

(http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=177106&atid=879914.) 

In the bug report please include:

* Information about your system. For instance:

   - GStreamer version

   - Available GStreamer plugins (run gst-inspect with no arguments)

  And anything else you think is relevant.

* Before you report a bug, it will be useful to know if GStreamer works.

  If you have playback issues, try running this command:

  $ gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri="file:///path/to/my/musicfile.ogg"

  Just replace /path/to/my/musicfile.ogg with some sound file in this command

  above.

* How to reproduce the bug.

* If the bug was a crash, the exact text that was printed out when the

  crash occured, and a trace (which can be obtained by using gdb or bug-buddy).

  See http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces for more information on getting

  stack traces.