happyhammer
02-11-2009, 06:50 PM
someone was asking about watching footie using some iptv channels, so i did a little testing today.
Firstly, i have a PC on 24/7 that houses me music/video etc. Using VLC on this PC, i first made sure i could stream a movie to the azbox. I simply added an IP channel on the azbox using UDP, i just gave it a name, left the ip blank and set the port to 1234. On the PC, used vlc udp streaming (port 1234) and specified the ip address of the azbox.
That all worked with an avi or an mpg file.
Next step was to get one of those iptv p2p programs that stream footie, so the most popular is sopcast. installed that on the pc , selected a channel and waited for that to get going. Now you run VLC again but you select network stream instead of file, this will be http://localhost:8902. The content was WMV3 so this needs transcoding
as well as usp streaming as above. transcode to mpeg and you now get teh footie on the tv. Quality on a big screen aint great though.
Firstly, i have a PC on 24/7 that houses me music/video etc. Using VLC on this PC, i first made sure i could stream a movie to the azbox. I simply added an IP channel on the azbox using UDP, i just gave it a name, left the ip blank and set the port to 1234. On the PC, used vlc udp streaming (port 1234) and specified the ip address of the azbox.
That all worked with an avi or an mpg file.
Next step was to get one of those iptv p2p programs that stream footie, so the most popular is sopcast. installed that on the pc , selected a channel and waited for that to get going. Now you run VLC again but you select network stream instead of file, this will be http://localhost:8902. The content was WMV3 so this needs transcoding
as well as usp streaming as above. transcode to mpeg and you now get teh footie on the tv. Quality on a big screen aint great though.