Stream TV over WAN possible? (1 Viewer)

[miroslav22]

Wow cool a 50mbit upload? That's something we can only dream of in the UK!

From a technical point of view it should work nicely as long as there's very little/no packet loss (it will be slower to change channels and scroll through the EPG though as the latency is higher)

Unfortunately there is a bug in MP that might cause a hurdle over a WAN. The actual TV streaming connection always uses the host name of the server machine for the address of the connection (even if you configure the client to use the IP address). You could possibly get around it by adding the server's hostname to the clients OS hosts file, mapping it to the WAN address of the server.

It will be fixed soon, but not in 1.2.0 unfortunately. Hopefully in a service release (maybe 1.2.1).

 

[miroslav22]

BTW the connection would need to be capable of a constant 15-25mbit upload (for HD anyway). Some providers advertised speeds are 'burst' speeds meaning they can only be sustained for a small amount of time before being shaped (lowered!).

 

[Peter2]

I configure my laptop tv client to the public IP adress of my network and i create a route access to the IP local tv server but it does not work.

Is there a way to watch TV on WAN to the tv server?

Woudn't using a VPN connection be a better option?

 

[msj33]

A SD MPEG2 channel is about 4 - 6 Mbit/s. I use MPWebStream to stream my channels to VLC on WAN with a 10 Mbit/s internet connection. It can also do transcoding so even a 1 Mbit/s connection should work.

Excactly what i was looking for - A transcoded stream to lower the bandwidth.

Anyway of doing transcoding for Mediaportal clients on WAN?

If not, is it possible to switch channels from VLC?

Care to do a How-To guide? (Installer for MPwebstream, streaming quality, which ports to forward and how to setup VLC)

/Morten

 

[vuego]

On the server I installed MPWebStream according to the instructions from that thread and forwarded the Cassini port to the server at my router (port 8080 by default).
On the client simply go to http://your-wan-ip:8080, right click the link for the transcoding you like, copy the shortcut and paste to VLC's Open Network Stream.