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

[Dale Shaw]

The guy I spoke to at TransACT denied this was possible, so I guess they
either don't want you to do it or he didn't know what I meant.

He claimed the Motorola STB could do twice as much as the i3 STB and
that the i3 STB was 'budget'. Nevertheless, this 'feature' interests me.
I initially called to see if I could request a STB swap but I don't
think I'll have much success there. Are there any other pros/cons of the
i3 STB that are worth the effort to try again? Is it actually against
TransACT policy?

cheers,
Dale

-----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
Francis James Whittle
Sent: Monday, 19 January 2004 1:54 PM
To: crash at michaelcarden.net
Cc: linux at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [clug] TransAct ISP

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<tangent>
Just out of interest, did anyone know that you can stream TransTV
straight to your linux box - the i3 Mood Digital TV system actually runs
on a strange but effective high-speed Ethernet bridge over the cable
system.  You can, after setting up appropriate routes:

route add -net 224.0.0.0/4 dev eth0
route add -net 192.168.0.0/16 dev eth0

(Yes, that is a 4 bit netmask there: that's multicast) use a media
player that supports RTP over UDP and mpeg1 transport streams (with full
surround audio ;-) such as VideoLan or Xine (I prefer Xine from them) -
GStreamer 0.7 supports multicast udp as well but setting up video
decoders is hard and gst-player does *not* support it.  However you can
relay through a FIFO to mplayer which at least has a decent deinterlacer
- and connect to 239.193.0.x on port 8208 for the video stream where x
is one of (these are really fairly obvious - Mostly the same as channel
numbers):

2 for ABC
5 for Transact Info Channel (Kinda' pointless, but hey)
7 for Prime
8 for SBS
9 for WIN
10 for Ten
11 for House of Reps.
12 for Senate
14 for BBC World
(17) for SBS World News (I think)
18 for LNTV (Only has mono audio and plays on one speaker - very
annoying.  But then, I don't speak Mandarin anyway.)
19 for TV5
20 for DW
22 for ABC Analogue (and 4:3)
27 for Prime Analogue (and 4:3)
(96 for Disney Channel, but it's encrypted(?))

eg: xine udp://239.193.0.2:8208 will get you 16:9 aspect ratio surround
sound ABC with full support for Xv or VIDIX.... and gives you a short
rewind buffer (although you tend you lose sync when you go back to the
stream end).

Nice for cron-based recording, perhaps?

Just something I thought I should share with you all....
</tangent>

Francis

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Francis James Whittle
BSEng Student,
Australian National University
Canberra, Australia