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

[Chris Henman]

WRT the 'tangent'.

could you please explain  how this works.  Apart from the 'route add 
...' what else needs to be done?

Cheers,
Chris Henman

Dale Shaw wrote:

>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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