VLC and VOMP protocol

[polo1984]

Hi,

Does it's possible to view live tv using VLC & VOMP?

What is the protocol used by vomp to tune to a given a channel and send stream to mediavp, it's something like rtsp ?.

Regards

[Chris]

Sorry, the vomp protocol is custom.

If you want to stream content from VLC to the MVP there is a project here to do that:

http://www.quixotic-research.net/

[polo1984]

The idea is to use an Amino STB instead of a mediaMVP.

If I'am be able to read the TV stream from VOMP using VLC so it will be easy to put an amino.

Does VOMP use UDP/TS or PS streaming protocol ?
if yes: how can I tune & start the streaming from the command line (i.e: using netcat for example)

regards

[Chris]

That won't really be possible with the vomp protocol. Why not use other VDR plugins that support standard video streaming protocols? streamdev comes to mind though I can't remember what protocols it supports.

[polo1984]

Streamdev is HTTP streaming server, So you have to convert the http stream to UDP.
Witch is not very easy and reliable.

So VOMP does not stream mpeg UDP/TS/PS packet?

Regards

[Chris]

VOMP streams PS (actually not quite PS we think, it's multiplexed PES) in large blocks (requester defines the size) carried over a TCP connection. The protocol is not textual (so no easy manual use). The MPEG data carried in a vomp packet is not aligned to any MPEG boundary as it all goes as a constant stream into the demuxer in vompclient.