Current Version: 1.3 - 08 Oct 2013
Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vodserver/files/?
Full documentation: http://vodserver.sourceforge.net/
Change Log: http://vodserver.sourceforge.net/history.html
A question that comes up every now and then is whether it is possible to add internet streams to the DVB-IP tuner of the MediaPortal TV-Server. Currently this is not possible out-of-the-box, since most internet streams are not in the MPEG2-TS format that the TV-Server requires. The OnlineVideos plugin provides a good alternative for watching internet streams, but it is a client-side plug-in and doesn't provide features like EPG and scheduled recordings.
Therefore I have developed a simple yet flexible and powerful Video On Demand Server, which can open many types of video streams and transcode them to a format supported by the TV-Server. This is a stand-alone server; the streams provided by this server can be used by the standard TV-Server DVB-IP tuner. VODServer uses rtmpdump and ffmpeg for retrieving stream data and transcoding; these utilities are included in the archive. Streams are started on-demand (i.e. whenever the TV-Server requests a stream), so no unnecessary use of bandwidth.
Sample configuration files are included for iLive.to and CastAlba.tv, allowing you to stream content from these services to the TV-Server (note that these samples are for reference purposes only; actually using this functionality may violate the Terms of Use for these services). Support for other services can be added via configuration files.
Please refer to the README.HTML file in the installation archive for more information. If you have any questions, remarks or additional service definitions to share, please do so on this thread.
Note: For now this server is Windows-only (due to the way ffmpeg and rtmpdump are invoked). The server itself is written in Java, so you will need to have a Java 7 JRE installed.
Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vodserver/files/?
Full documentation: http://vodserver.sourceforge.net/
Change Log: http://vodserver.sourceforge.net/history.html
A question that comes up every now and then is whether it is possible to add internet streams to the DVB-IP tuner of the MediaPortal TV-Server. Currently this is not possible out-of-the-box, since most internet streams are not in the MPEG2-TS format that the TV-Server requires. The OnlineVideos plugin provides a good alternative for watching internet streams, but it is a client-side plug-in and doesn't provide features like EPG and scheduled recordings.
Therefore I have developed a simple yet flexible and powerful Video On Demand Server, which can open many types of video streams and transcode them to a format supported by the TV-Server. This is a stand-alone server; the streams provided by this server can be used by the standard TV-Server DVB-IP tuner. VODServer uses rtmpdump and ffmpeg for retrieving stream data and transcoding; these utilities are included in the archive. Streams are started on-demand (i.e. whenever the TV-Server requests a stream), so no unnecessary use of bandwidth.
Sample configuration files are included for iLive.to and CastAlba.tv, allowing you to stream content from these services to the TV-Server (note that these samples are for reference purposes only; actually using this functionality may violate the Terms of Use for these services). Support for other services can be added via configuration files.
Please refer to the README.HTML file in the installation archive for more information. If you have any questions, remarks or additional service definitions to share, please do so on this thread.
Note: For now this server is Windows-only (due to the way ffmpeg and rtmpdump are invoked). The server itself is written in Java, so you will need to have a Java 7 JRE installed.
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