[vdr] Re: Streaming Mode? answers, requests and problems

[René Bartsch <rene@bartschnet.de>]

As client you can use mplayer-CVS "mplayer [options] rtp://[clientIP]:[clientPORT] -cache [cache in KB]".

To install compile VDR_0.99 with AIO-24.02 and streaming option [streaming=1].

You also have to copy DVBVideoLan-package parallel to DVB and VDR. Go into DVBVideoLan and do "make"

Set the export DVBVL_DEST="[clientIP]" and export DVBVL_PORT="[clientPORT]" variables (write them down to /etc/rc.d/rc.local (RH7.x)
to set them automatically in case of restart ...)

Go to VDR-OSD, select channel, go to "Streaming" option and use red/F1-button for "Streaming on".

Then you can start mplayer on the client.


Problems:

- it works only for live tv :-(
- There are often RTP package failures causing distortions in the picture ...
- stuttering sound on DVB-S audio out with DVDs (might be caused by AC3-patch)
   but streaming sound is fine.
- it often works only one time, then mplayer complains something about header 1 and a reboot of VDR-machine is needed to make it
work again

request:

Obviously, streaming uses a device like /dev/ost/dvr as source. So only live tv can be streamed. But what about not using output
from driver but input to driver interface instead? So anything send to hardware decoder by any software would be streamed.

Streaming tv, radio, recordings, dvd, svcd, mp3 would also work then ...

Rene



----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Schneider" <Robert.Schneider@de.ibm.com>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 1:19 PM
Subject: [vdr] Streaming Mode?


> Hi,
>
> can someone shed some light on the RTP streaming mode that has made it
> into the AIO patch?
>
> What kind of clients can I use to view the streamed data?
> What do I have to do, to make VDR stream?
>
> Appreciate any comments,
>
> Robert
>
>