IP TV Support (1 Viewer)

[Anonymous]

I too have a provider (TransACT-Australia) that pumps out TV over UDP. It's great - I can record up to three channels at once without any drama. ALthough it's a PITA ATM. If i could hook it up into Midaa Portal and have it as simple to program and watch as using my VCR it would be great.

If there any programmers about there is some info over at the whirlpool forums (here: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=128335&p=1) regarding how it all works. I have managed to get it working but most of the tech stuff goes over my head.

I currently use an old build of myHTPC as my media centre. Iy's good, but it's now gone commercial so I'll never be updating. Whatever media centre (mythTV ot Media Portal) first gets native streaming UDP support is the one I'll be downloading.

I can't wait.

 

[NooK]

My friend just got video-on-demand (Telia provider in Sweden) where it cmoes together with the internet info in his ADSL modem and out of the modem comes one network cable to the computer for internet and another to a digital box (Which uses a smartcard and he has to enter some pin numbers to work) so I wonder if using VLC is possible at all because of the smartcard and all? Using MP would be even better.

Best Regards

NooK

 

[gadu^]

Bringing up an old thread...

Any news on getting Bredbandsbolaget's IP-TV in MP?

 

[unknow21]

Hello,

I'm interresting about IP-TV support too.
I'm in France and i'have a set-up-box with my adsl provider witch provide tv by ip.
My adsl provider call free ( http://adsl.free.fr/tv/multiposte/ ) .
I can watch tv stream with VLC.
The stream is mpeg TS:

rtsp://mafreebox.freebox.fr/freeboxtv/201
rtsp://mafreebox.freebox.fr/freeboxtv/202
..

Flux 0:
Codec: mpga
Type: Audio

Flux 1:
Codec: mpgv
Type: Video

A "virtual tv card" to support streming tv would be very cool!

 

[unknow21]

nobody?

 

[Autoper]

This is a very interresting function to add into MP! I hope there will be a solution for this

 

[Inkvisitor]

Yes, it's possible to play streams from bredbandsbolaget IP-TV in VLC.
SVT1 URL Example: udp://@233.33.194.1:10001

However...

Previously all channels on viasat were streamed unencrypted but that have changed. Now you need a card for your box. Is there a way to handle encrypted streams in VLC ? Do I need a cardreader ?

 

[Corve]

Hi,

I'm a french user of MP and my DSL provider deliver some IP-TV channels too. A "virtual card" in TV module would be a great (r)evolution for users like me :

- Currently, the mpeg broadcast is converted in analogic signal by my STB and re-converted in mpeg by my PVR 150.
--> You don't want to know the quality!!!

- And with a vlc connection to my stb, I can watch several channels at the same time.

In a conclusion, I hope there will be a solution for this.

 

[Autoper]

Corve, I like the virtual capture card idea

 

[Stinky]

From what I can see, the big issue would be channel mapping - matching a stream to a channel number/station ID. Many IPTV servers carry a few hundred channels and users would be forced to map an IP address to a channel by viewing it and waiting for some staion ID. Of course, once a set of mappings is completed, it can be shared with other MP users subscribed to the same provider.

I'd love to work on something like this, but I really have no idea where to start. I'm Delphi programmer but I've never written anything like a device driver. I did, however, write a quick little app that uses the VLC plugin, I'm sure I could write an app to help with the channel mapping. Dump a packet sniffer log into a VLC playlist, dump the EPG channel listing into a listbox and step through the channels (displaying the stream) letting the user choose a match and store the matchings to a DB.

Edit: I see that some providers match the last quad of the IP to the channel number. The above might not be necessary.