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Anyone had any luck with streaming from a Dreambox 7020 yet?

It also works fine with 4:2:2 chroma feeds !!!

I wonder why the audio is not being passed through?

VLC supports 4.2.2 chroma broadcasts and I use it to watch captured .TS files from a Dreambox receiver. Streaming is another problem with VLC reporting errors in the MPEG decoder for me.

looks ok on a dual G5

I don't think the Dreambox firmware matters as it uses the same networking protocols. MPlayer displays the stream only after allocating a buffer of 8MB in its preferences of which it uses 20%. VLC has no way to set a buffer size for the incoming stream and discards it.

Enter the network location as http://ip of dreambox:31339/vpid,apid this should result in a stream received by VLS or VLC but it won't display it...

Success - but using MPlayer OS X 2 not VLC

The http stream is entered in MPlayer as http://192.168.150.2:31339/0xbd7,0xbd8 which VLC will not display. Strange.

Hmmm, a bit beyond my technical expertise at the moment... :shock: However if I save to the Dreambox's internal HD and ftp the TS file across to my desktop it plays without a problem in vlc. However I cannot get vlc to display or save the streaming TS file over HTTP. The box is streaming to vlc as I...

Right, we're now getting a data stream of 425KB/sec from the Dreambox but still no video is displayed. main: playlist item `http://192.168.150.2:31339/bd7,bd8' main debug: waiting for thread completion main debug: access `http', demux `', name `192.168.150.2:31339/bd7,bd8' main debug: thread 3489843...

Ok guys, thanks for the pointers. Let's see if we can replicate this on a FTA channel such as MTV Central on 19.2E (11739MHz V 27500 3/4) If I enter http://192.168.150.2:31339/0xbd7,0xbd8 in a web browser (pids taken from the main window in Dreambox webinterface) I can see the datastream being trans...

Thanks for the link to the test build. 4:2:2 will make it a killer app but firstly I need vlc to display the transport stream from the dreambox (see posting in Tech forum)

Using vlc 0.7.0 test-1 and Dreambox DM7000s sat receiver connected to dual 2GHz G5, OS X 10.3.1. DB has IP of 192.168.150.2 and can be accessed from the mac via FTP and telnet using root/dreambox login combo. It doesn't seem to be streaming the MPEG.TS through vlc. The following message appears in t...

That's great news DJ. I'll be testing it as soon as the Mac OS X version is released.