Provide feature to allow episode to be downloaded

[SingingDwarf]

Provide the user with the option to Download, as well as Play, an individual episode.

[dmfrey]

I will have to think about this one. You are possibly talking upwards of
10Gb for and hour and a half HD recording. 6-7 for an hour and 3-4 for a
half hour. Videos, especially bluray MKV files could be upwards of 50 Gb.
These episodes would need to be transcoded first on the backend. There is
no data to indicate it if a recording has been transcoded.

We would need more details as well as workflow possibilities. For example,
what happens to the locally downloaded recording after you delete the
episode on the backend? Regular frontends don't download the recordings
for offline viewing.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 7:14 PM SingingDwarf [email protected]
wrote:

Provide the user with the option to Download, as well as Play, an
individual episode.

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[SingingDwarf]

I'm thinking simply to download a copy of the recording to local storage, no need to keep in sync with the backend. Regular frontends aren't portable like a tablet/phone, so don't need the feature.

It would be nice to be able to download shows to local storage (possibly restrict to wifi connections only if worried about bandwidth), in order to allow user to view the show where there is no connection to the backend. Mythweb allows this, but its not a great interface for use on a tablet - I much prefer MythTV Player for Android ;-)

[billmeek]

@SingingDwarf, just FYI, I removed the Enhancement from 3 subjects
and set the enhancement label.

[dmfrey]

If a feature like this were to be implemented, I would think we would only want to allow it once the user has transcoded it down to mp4. Thoughts?

Also, I think we would want to avoid trying to get any handset to be responsible for playing mpeg2 content as well as filling up a user's device with raw mpeg2 or MKV Bluray rip.

Playing raw mpeg2 content would have to be performed by a third-party app, such as VLC for Android. This app is never going to implement a native mpeg2 codec for video playback.