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

[Duncan Bolt]

Well I actually tried this last night, I have the i3 Mood silver and 
blue box.

I am a Netspeed customer, and as mentioned they had already set my 
routes for me.

I was doing this on a Windows 2000 machine with the Windows ports of 
Videolan Client and Xine. (Our home network consists of two GAMES 
computers...)

However it was very hard to get working, at the stage where I felt the 
urge to try everything, I turned off the Windows Internet Connection 
Sharing and it worked.

Hooray.... I thought, but then I noticed it only worked for Channel 2 
(and only Channel 2 not the analogue 22). Channel 2 worked every time, 
but no others.

I kept fiddling, and thought that since this was windows rebooting 
would fix it. Logged into Netspeed again and then nothing worked.

I eventually got it running again on all the channels, after logging 
out of Netspeed, disabling the home network card, and putting the route 
command in manually. I was able to have two channels going at once with 
a different channel running on the telly.

I suspect the Windows ICS was too stupid and was messing it up.

This was with Videolan Client, xine did not seem to work as well. I 
think the PC port is a bit out of date.

So now I need to work out how to script all this with windows AT 
commands. Starting the VLC is easy enough, but I need to work out how 
to stop the program before the computer crashes for lack of disk space.

Alternatively either buy one of those Tivo that have been discussed, or 
get a third computer to run linux in order to digitally record TV.

On 02/02/2004, at 7:01 PM, Francis James Whittle wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 09:49 +1100, Dale Shaw wrote:
>> 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?
>
> AFAICT, it's not what the STB supports that matters here.  I can
> actually receive all 17 channels at once (Although I don't know 
> entirely
> about how much bandwidth collision there was there - theoretically 
> we're
> talking ~7.24 × 17 = 123.08Mbps which is more than the 100Mbps modem 
> can
> optimally handle, but probably not the network itself)... There is
> certainly no doubt as to whether you can watch 2 channels at once.
>
>> Has anyone tried this on a Motorola STB? I'm struggling to understand
>> why/how the i3 would behave differently.
>
> I recall actually doing this when the STB was unplugged before - so I'm
> not sure whether it has any relevance at all.  Keep in mind that the i3
> MoodBox is an embedded linux device, so you should theoretically be 
> able
> to do anything it can do with your linux box.  Although, IIRC the
> Motorola STB actually also acts as the cable modem, so the deal may be
> somewhat different, and there's a high probability that it doesn't
> transport those connections over your LAN.  Although you *might* be 
> able
> to set up the appropriate bridge yourself....
>
> -- 
> Francis James Whittle
> BSEng Student,
> Australian National University
> Canberra, Australia
>
>

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