[vdr] Re: Experimental Live Streaming Patch for VDR 1.0.0

["Sebastian Herp" <newsletter@scytheman.net>]

ok, meanwhile i managed it to extract the netplayer from the broken
zip-file.

1. i hate it when elecard does what it does (overwriting my previous mpeg2
decoder which worked just fine ... whatever
2. the rest seems to work as expected :-) ... thanks ... only one minor
bug/feature: there is no audio on channels with more than one audio-pid
respectivly an ac3-pid ... aaaand: the aspect ratio in the player is not
correct (on channels which do not broadcast in full PAL resolution)

thats it ... great work,
Sebastian


----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Dean" <linux-dvb@sickhack.com>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 2:16 AM
Subject: [vdr] Experimental Live Streaming Patch for VDR 1.0.0


> I have written a small patch for VDR that allows live multicast UDP
> streaming over a network.
>
> The patch is experimental and basically replaces the record mode in VDR
> with live streaming.  IE when you tell VDR to record something it won't
> actually record it, it will instead stream the program over the network.
> The next version should hopefully stream regardless of whether a
> recording is in progress, as well as actually recording programs.
>
> Can I stress again that with the current version of the patch VDR will
> NOT actually EVER record anything.  This version is meant solely for
> testing.
>
> What you will need:
> - Multicast networking enabled in your kernel.
> - A local multicast network route.  This can be achieved by executing
> the following line:
>     /sbin/route add -net 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 dev eth0
> - A Windows client with Moonlight UDP Streaming Application installed.
> This can be found at:
>     http://www.moonlight.co.il/products/udpstreaming.shtml
>   The file you need is:
>     http://www.elecard.com/ftp/pub/mpeg/UDP/UDP.zip
>   The NetPlayer has to be installed in order to view the stream.
> - DirectShow filters for MPEG2 demultiplexing and decoding.  You can
> find such filters at:
>     http://www.moonlight.co.il/products/mpeg2decoder.shtml
> - A vanilla installation of VDR 1.0.0.
>
> The patch can be downloaded from:
>
>    http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~csuqk/vdr-1.0.0-strm.diff.gz
>
> To install the patch:
> 1) go to your vanilla VDR 1.0.0 directory and execute:
>     zcat vdr-1.0.0-strm.diff.gz | patch -p1
> 2) Install Moonlight UDP Streaming Application (UDP Stream Player).
> 3) Install MPEG2 demultiplexer and MPEG2 decoder DirectShow filters
> (http://www.elecard.com)
> 4) Run
>     ./runvdr
>    in your vanilla VDR 1.0.0 directory.
> 5) Start an instant recording in VDR.
> 6) Open Windows Media Player on your Windows PC and open the following
> location:
>     moonlight://224.0.0.1:1212n/udp
>    Where "n" is the number of the DVB card being used to instant record
> (with 0 being the first card, 1 being the second card...).
> 7) Enjoy watching live streamed MPEG2 TV!
>
> If you experience any problems then please send them to the VDR mailing
> list.
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon Dean
>
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