Streaming from a Dreambox

[rdoac]

I asked this on the VDR mailing list, but it occured to me it might just be easier adding it as an option to the media player.

On a PC I can stream an mpeg2 stream from a dreambox by doing:

http://192.168.2.7:31344

And it will play whatever is on the TV.

Is there a way to do this on Vomp?

Could I create a playlist and try and play it?

It would help as we only have two Sat cables coming down, and one of my Diseqc's keeps arguing with my SkyStar but less so with the Dreambox.

We have three mvp's in the house, but it ties up both cables if my wife wants to watch the same TV in the kitchen as we do in the lounge, then the kids can't watch something mindless on Nickelodean.

[Lutz]

http://www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/iptv

This is the link of the IPTV-Plugin, you can connect streaming sources via url in your channels list and hopefuly play them also in Vomp... maybe thats what you are looking for!

Lutz

[avvdr]

On a PC I can stream an mpeg2 stream from a dreambox by doing:

http://192.168.2.7:31344

And it will play whatever is on the TV.

Is there a way to do this on Vomp?

As soon as there is a video media player available (still needs work in the media player) this could be an interesting option.
At the end this would be more efficient then to go trough the server.
What about having a small vompserver on the dreambox?
OK currently does not make much sense - but if the mediaplayer could play videos it could be integrated on the server side to access streams - then no additional server would be necessary.

Could I create a playlist and try and play it?

It's on the todo list for the mediaplayer (just after video...).
Regards
Andreas

[rdoac]

http://www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/iptv

This is the link of the IPTV-Plugin, you can connect streaming sources via url in your channels list and hopefuly play them also in Vomp... maybe thats what you are looking for!

Lutz

I had a  play with IPTV, but it isn't a good thing, as it appears as another DVB device and always goes on, which clobbers the dreambox, as you can't change channel or record if you're streaming.

Thanks though,

[avvdr]

Hi,
after I uploaded now a version that is able to play videos (http://www.loggytronic.com/forum/index.php?topic=248.msg2053#msg2053, maybe someone would be interested in adding this.
The media player now internally has a hierarchical structure of media providers, so it should be fairly easy to add a streaming receiver locally at the client side.
It needs to implement MediaProvider - and would need some configuration (like a playlist).
Optionally you could try out the new server side plugin interface. If you would use e.g. mencoder (or some other simpler program like wget if the stream is well formatted) that is able to receive streams, you can add the wanted channels as files in a dedicated directory.
For example you could create a script to handle files of the extension "stream".
Those files will simply contain the URL to be streamed.
Eg: mystream.stream

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http://192.168.2.7:31344


The command configured to handle the extension "stream" would inlcude

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....
if [ $1 = play ] ; then
    wget -O - `cat "$2"`
fi

The disadvantage would again be that it goes through the server...
The client side would require some C++ hacking 

Regards
Andreas