[linux-dvb] Virtual Samba FS

[Joachim Preissner <joachim@preissner-muc.de>]

Hi there,

I still try to get an MPEG2 stream over ethernet and watch it with a 
Windows(!) standard DVD player.
I'm following 2 approaches.

1) Sending a TS/PS from the DVB card in a linux box with RTP or 
similar on the network to a Windows machine.
I was recommended VideoLan but the receiving machine needs to 
be a Windows machine, but VideoLan is Linux only.
Do you know a viewer like WinDVD etc. which is able to receive 
streaming data? Did anyone implement any system where you 
watch TV with a "standard" DVD player on a Windows box while the
this stream is coming over ethernet from a linux box.

2) The second approach is: If I cannot find a Windows DVD player, 
which can read streaming data, can I make the stream on the linux
box look like a virtual file. Then I could hook a player on it using 
Samba. 
The first idea was to use a ramdisk to avoid disk traffic and a fifo 
kind of file. The named pipes that come with linux didn't work, the 
player couldn't hook on it.
Anyone tried something like that?

Thanks
Joachim



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