the mp4 container does not perform better than the matroska container in that sense. But if you really want an mp4 container, you can always post-process recordings quick and easy.John Törnblom
The mp4 protocol does not support live streaming, the container require the total stream length to be present in the header. There are variants of mp4 which goes around this design flaw, but last time I checked, no browser supported it.John Törnblom
Another, perhaps more secure approach, would be talk htsp via websockets. See my old branch at: https://github.com/john-tornblom/tvheadend/tree/websockets the branch is pretty old, so will probably not merge that well with upstr...John Törnblom
The mp4 container does not support muxing of continuous streams, and thus is not available in tvheadend. Microsoft has something they call smooth streaming, which is basically several mp4 files concatinated, but is not supported by any o...John Törnblom
fixed as of https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend/commit/f6450c3adc7d0f7d620aebc4db45de7393353c58 tested in both debian wheezy and jessie.John Törnblom
fixed as of https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend/commit/f6450c3adc7d0f7d620aebc4db45de7393353c58 tested in both debian wheezy and jessie.John Törnblom
John Törnblom21:18 Tvheadend General: RE: MP4 Container