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Free to air streaming

Postby stretch4x4 » 14 Apr 2009 14:36

Hi, I am trying to redo our free to air streaming at our college as it regularaly breaks and is a pain in the butt. I know that VLC currently does the streaming part but it is not used to pick up the channel which I think is where the problems lie. We have two FusionHDTV USB, AVStream Capture (DVBT-DUAL) cards in our server. Can I set this up using VLC 0.9.9 in windows? Will this hardware work? Or do I need to load Ubuntu on it and try that way.

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Re: Free to air streaming

Postby stretch4x4 » 23 Apr 2009 09:45

Ok so I gave it a go today VLC 0.9.9 it seemed to work if I put in the channel frequency and bandwidth although it was extremely jerky and the colours were off although this may have been due to the remote desktop connection. I wanted to test this theory by streaming it but as soon as I enabled the streaming settings I got the mrl error.
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvb-t:// :dvb-frequency=219500 :dvb-bandwidth=7'. Check the log for details.

Ideas anybody?

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Re: Free to air streaming

Postby stretch4x4 » 24 Apr 2009 02:28

Ok so I continued to stumble around the forums and eventually found a thread that helped. If I go to the streaming box and get the command string then cancel it and go to the capture device open box and manually add it to the end of the command string there it works! Sounds like a bit of a bug to me :( So I can make it work yay!
I now have one final issue. The computer has two cards each can do two streams so I want to do four seperate streams. The only problem is everytime I try to run more than one stream, VLC crashes. This also occurs when I finish streaming if I push close or stop VLC crashes. Is this because it is trying to access the same card?

Please could someone help it has been really hard figuring out what I have and Im running out of ideas.

Thanks Andrew


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