streaming with DVB s PCI card on home network

snaps

Hope this is the best place to ask, im trying to stream around the house via a home network (Both WLAN and LAN). Ive a media center pc with a DVB S card in. Im running Alt DVB, DVB Dream and DVB viewer. Ive a free standard version of prog dvb as well (But dont really like the layout of it).

Ive tried to stream using dvbdream to VLC players on other laptops around the house, but to be honest im not having much luck.

Ive got to the point where i can get a picture but it doesnt do anything, its just a frozen picture.

Any suggestions on what to do or use would be welcome.

watty

ProgDVB works.
Install it on both PCs.
One has Sever module enabled and other client.
Then you have full remote also.

if using VLC, run a VLC at the PC with card as Streaming Server, for the clients. otherwise it won't work.

Also look at Free MS Windows Media Encoder 9 (XP)

And Unreal Server and Clients etc.

snaps

Thanks Watty will take a look at that. Will the free version of prog dvb work or do i need to get the professional paid version?

Do i need to put any settings into VLC player on the one that is running in the PC with the card?

Mr McBoatface

You could try Mediaportal. You can install it's tvserver engine on the PC with the tuning card, then set-up your other PC's as client PC.

By default you can receive 7day EPG for Freesat and Saorview direct from the DVB source. For the 7day Sky EPG you can use this addon - http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/general-development-no-feature-request-here-48/sky-uk-uk-freesat-epg-43261/index110.html - read from post 1100 onwards.

I'm looking at streaming TV from one server to multiple clients myself using the MP method, I just haven't had a chance to set it up yet.

watty

snaps wrote: »

Thanks Watty will take a look at that. Will the free version of prog dvb work or do i need to get the professional paid version?

Do i need to put any settings into VLC player on the one that is running in the PC with the card?

you only need the paid version for HD or MPEG4 to work properly I think.

I have paid prog DVB, but I only ever tried the streaming some years ago on free version.

You need to set VLC's input to connect to your player.

Download the free "graph edit" for editing how media stuff connects and what codecs etc are default. I have no idea why it's not standard since NT4.0 in Control Panel.

snaps

Ive never got media portal to work correctly. In theory its looks a great app, but it just seems to complicated. least with the other dvb softwares, they are easy to set up and run.

Mr McBoatface

snaps wrote: »

Ive never got media portal to work correctly. In theory its looks a great app, but it just seems to complicated. least with the other dvb softwares, they are easy to set up and run.

It only made me partially bald for a little while ... the hair eventually grew back

snaps

i keep getting some ts timeshift error when trying to watch a tv channel in media portal.

rlogue

I've had success with DVBViewer - their streaming plugin works well. Mediaportal looks good but is a pig to set up and works intermittently for me.

snaps

ill take a look at the dvbviewer plugin

dmm1000

hi folks
just resurrecting this thread - I have been trying the same things - VLC is supposed to be the best and while I have used VLC / Progdvb / Dvbviewer all streamed succesfully inside a LAN network.

My experiences :-

Progdvb (freecom DVB-T usb stick )- fine using http port 10999 inside a LAN (remote channel change from client sometimes a bit choppy unpredictable but not bad at all) - you need to pay for something called "Internet Gate" to do WAN streaming

Dvbviewer (Skystar2 Sat Card) - brilliant inside a LAN including remote channel changes - havent got round to trying WAN streaming


Windows Media Encoder (WME) - this is the only software ive managed to get working to stream any AVI or WMV file to the internet (WAN) using http port 8080 - but it will not see my DVB-T card (so i cant stream live TV) - i'm using BDA drivers maybe WME doesnt like BDA drivers ? - havent tried WME on my PC with the Skystar2 card)

VLC (using Skystar2 Sat Card) great inside a LAN using protocols UDP / Multicast / Unicast - BUT it will not stream over HTTP either inside or outside of the LAN for me - tried numerous ports from 8080 / 8081 etc etc - I know I have all ports forwarded on router correctly - but it will not do HTTP which i need to go out to WAN (currently cant get it working LAN or WAN http)

So for me anyway inside a LAN streaming live TV using various applications and protocols (UDP mostly) works - but VLC is supposed to be able to do it ALL

I know that some older releases it is rumored work better than newer releases for various functionality - anyone care to comment on that ?

but my goal is to be able to stream live TV from a DVB device over the internet (WAN) - I have managed using WME over http but only with a video file not live TV - anyone know a version of VLC or indeed any special version of VLC or any settings that i have missed in VLC that would allow live TV over http - i think http is the simplest to use protocol that will stream live TV over WAN using VLC - correct me if im wrong - but if i could get VLC to stream ANYTHING (avi mpg wmv file) over any http port even internally (LAN) the rest would be easy - thats where im stuck

dmm1000

well I had another go with an earlier version of VLC last night (0.86i) and lo and behold i cant get http streaming to work over a LAN with a standard avi / wmv / mpeg file etc
however i cannot get it to recognise or play anything from my dvb-t freecom tuner stick
so basically i can use the latest vlc 1.1.5 (i think it is) to tune into dvb-t signal and display - but not stream anyhting over http - whereas the 0.86i version streams fine over http but cant tune into my dvb-t stick - kind of frustrating but i guess thats open source software for you and we should be grateful for some great functionality

but it is frustrating when a future release of the software (1.1.5) breaks something that was working (http streaming) in an earlier release (0.86i)