Streaming TransTV (was: RE: [clug] TransAct ISP)

Andrew Smith andrew at coolchilli.com
Mon Feb 2 03:36:13 GMT 2004


The Motorola uses MPEG2 over ATM, the i3 is an ethernet over ATM bridge, so
uses an IP multicast for the stream.  The ethernet port for the PC seems to
be a 100Mbps hub rather than switch (PCs with only 10Mbps cards screw the TV
on the new STB).

Andrew

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dale Shaw" <DShaw at exceed.com.au>
To: "Canberra Linux Lovers Club" <linux at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 9:49 AM
Subject: RE: Streaming TransTV (was: RE: [clug] TransAct ISP)


> Does this mean you can be watching one channel on your telly and another
> channel (in another room) on a PC or does the STB support only 1 stream
> at a time? Bandwidth issues?
>
> Has anyone tried this on a Motorola STB? I'm struggling to understand
> why/how the i3 would behave differently.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-bounces+dshaw=exceed.com.au at lists.samba.org
> [mailto:linux-bounces+dshaw=exceed.com.au at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of
> Brett Worth
> Sent: Sunday, 1 February 2004 9:20 PM
> To: Canberra Linux Lovers Club
> Subject: Re: Streaming TransTV (was: RE: [clug] TransAct ISP)
>
> On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Francis James Whittle wrote:
>
> > Using a video player that supports RTP over UDP streaming ...
>
>
> [...]
>
> It certainly adds an excellent feature to a Transact subscription.
>
> -- 
> Brett
>
>
>



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