Dreambox internet streaming-Guide
Posted: 19 Jun 2006 08:15
Maybe it would be nice to give me my settings for having the dreambox being able to stream over the internet.
First the network settings:
dreambox internal network ip 192.168.1.250 (having the hydra final 1.09 image)
transcoding/streaming pc internal network ip 192.168.1.7
router/firewall map tcp-port 1234 from wan to lan ip 192.168.1.7 (howto depends on router). Its even better to map a different wanport to lanport cos of security reasons (for instance 47474-->1234, thats mostly an upnp-setting in the router), or choose something else than 1234 (36363-->36363)...
Now choose a channel on the dreambox, enter http://192.168.1.250/video.pls, and save video.pls
Start up vlc media player, "Open Network Stream..." and copy/paste the url in video.pls to the field "HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/MMS", this should look like http://192.168.1.250:31339/0,0105,1388,1389,138a,1388 (this is bbc1 london).
Transcoding options:
"Advanced Options, Stream/Save settings...", depending on the uploadspeed you are having, copy/paste one of the following lines in the upper Targetfield:
:sout=#transcode{vcodec=WMV2,vb=384,scale=0.75,acodec=mp3,ab=96,channels=2,deinterlace,croptop=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=mmsh,mux=asfh,dst=192.168.1.7:1234}}
:sout=#transcode{vcodec=WMV2,vb=192,scale=0.5,acodec=mp3,ab=64,channels=2,deinterlace,croptop=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=mmsh,mux=asfh,dst=192.168.1.7:1234}}
for streams with about 500 or 250 kbps respectively.
You can always get these settings by also choosing the appropiate settings for Outputs, Encapsulation Method and Transcoding Options, but then there are no options for "deinterlace" and cropping (croptop=2 is removing the upper 'buzz'line)...
Press OK twice.
Now there is a stream waiting to be transmitted on port 1234 of the transcoding pc with ip 192.168.1.7
Note: you need a quite fast pc being able for the realtime encoding of the stream, minimum pentium 4, 2 GHZ, 500 MB, mine is AMD X2 4200+, 2 GB
The pc is already encoding now, check the cpu load! I get around 20% load on the 500 kbps stream.
You can check if all is alright by entering mms://192.168.1.7:1234 in windows media player on the local pc or on another local network pc, or mmsh://192.168.1.7:1234 in the vlc media player.
Okay, im @work, wanting to see a World Champion Soccer game... (not really, but thats not the point).
Open up windows media player, "Open URL:...", enter mms://a.b.c.d:1234 where a.b.c.d is the internet address of your network at home. Replace 1234 by another port if you mapped differently in your router.
But use the vlc media player preferably to watch the stream (especially for 16:9 content; then the aspect ratio is ok too), then enter mmsh://a.b.c.d:1234 ("Open Network Stream...", field "HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/MMS").
If you wanna zap to another channel, change the url of the dreambox stream to whats in the new video.pls.
Thats It!
dagg.
First the network settings:
dreambox internal network ip 192.168.1.250 (having the hydra final 1.09 image)
transcoding/streaming pc internal network ip 192.168.1.7
router/firewall map tcp-port 1234 from wan to lan ip 192.168.1.7 (howto depends on router). Its even better to map a different wanport to lanport cos of security reasons (for instance 47474-->1234, thats mostly an upnp-setting in the router), or choose something else than 1234 (36363-->36363)...
Now choose a channel on the dreambox, enter http://192.168.1.250/video.pls, and save video.pls
Start up vlc media player, "Open Network Stream..." and copy/paste the url in video.pls to the field "HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/MMS", this should look like http://192.168.1.250:31339/0,0105,1388,1389,138a,1388 (this is bbc1 london).
Transcoding options:
"Advanced Options, Stream/Save settings...", depending on the uploadspeed you are having, copy/paste one of the following lines in the upper Targetfield:
:sout=#transcode{vcodec=WMV2,vb=384,scale=0.75,acodec=mp3,ab=96,channels=2,deinterlace,croptop=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=mmsh,mux=asfh,dst=192.168.1.7:1234}}
:sout=#transcode{vcodec=WMV2,vb=192,scale=0.5,acodec=mp3,ab=64,channels=2,deinterlace,croptop=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=mmsh,mux=asfh,dst=192.168.1.7:1234}}
for streams with about 500 or 250 kbps respectively.
You can always get these settings by also choosing the appropiate settings for Outputs, Encapsulation Method and Transcoding Options, but then there are no options for "deinterlace" and cropping (croptop=2 is removing the upper 'buzz'line)...
Press OK twice.
Now there is a stream waiting to be transmitted on port 1234 of the transcoding pc with ip 192.168.1.7
Note: you need a quite fast pc being able for the realtime encoding of the stream, minimum pentium 4, 2 GHZ, 500 MB, mine is AMD X2 4200+, 2 GB
The pc is already encoding now, check the cpu load! I get around 20% load on the 500 kbps stream.You can check if all is alright by entering mms://192.168.1.7:1234 in windows media player on the local pc or on another local network pc, or mmsh://192.168.1.7:1234 in the vlc media player.
Okay, im @work, wanting to see a World Champion Soccer game... (not really, but thats not the point).
Open up windows media player, "Open URL:...", enter mms://a.b.c.d:1234 where a.b.c.d is the internet address of your network at home. Replace 1234 by another port if you mapped differently in your router.
But use the vlc media player preferably to watch the stream (especially for 16:9 content; then the aspect ratio is ok too), then enter mmsh://a.b.c.d:1234 ("Open Network Stream...", field "HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/MMS").
If you wanna zap to another channel, change the url of the dreambox stream to whats in the new video.pls.
Thats It!
dagg.