[mythtv-users] Wireless networking. Is is fast enough to with a
remote frontend?
Paul Wheeler
paulrwheeler at gmail.com
Wed Nov 10 17:38:31 UTC 2004
I use a combination of g and a at home and easily stream live tv and
recordings around via wireless. It works great :-). The backend has a
pvr-350 and is connected by a 100Mbps lead to the wireless router (so
only one wireless link). I havent had any problems with it at all.
Paul
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 23:30:02 -0500, Jack Trout <witmore1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> While that is true, it seems that front ends themselves stream the
> datafile through the mysql server, so in that case it doesnt seem
> mysql has very much error control abilities to continue the stream
>
> I have attempted to use 802.11b to stream through mythtv my recorded
> shows at any point does it encounter an error the playback immediately
> stops
>
> now I have had better success mounting my /video partition via smb
> then using smb to play the .nuv files accross the network using the
> dsmyth filters on my windoze box and I get alot more reliable
> playback, but I dont have the show information so its pretty much
> guess work to figure out what I am trying to watch so its a trade off,
> I just tend to fish wires as that is alot of initial work, but far
> more worth it for myth
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:49:57 +1100, Doug Scoular <dscoular at cisco.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > This might be kinda off-topic since the solution doesn't
> > involve mythtv...
> >
> > Bill Munson wrote:
> > > Does anyone have any experience with running a remote frontend on a
> > wireless
> > > network?
> >
> > I've had pretty good results using vlc (http://videolan.org) to
> > stream over my crappy 802.11b wireless network. While
> > 802.11b is rated at 11Mbps I only ever seem to manage
> > a sustained rate of about 1.5Mbps. vlc is available for
> > many platforms including windoze and Linux.
> >
> > I use the following command on any box with content to
> > start streaming:
> >
> > vlc /mnt/store/8004_20041023193300_20041023202500.nuv \
> > --sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=1024,scale=1,acodec=mpga, \
> > ab=128,channels=1}:duplicate{dst=std{access=rtp, \
> > mux=ts,url=192.168.200.4:1234}}
> >
> > Where 192.168.200.4 is the IP address of the target machine
> > you are going to be viewing the content on. (you may have
> > to strip out the ' \' above as I just put them in to stop my mail
> > client wrapping). The first argument is the content you want
> > to stream... vlc understands just about any format, I've streamed
> > mpeg-2, mpeg-4 etc without any problems.
> >
> > On the client machine you merely launch vlc and tell it to
> > open a network stream on port 1234 (it's default), you don't
> > need to give an IP address. The content should just start
> > playing (assuming the server is playing too).
> >
> > What the above is actually doing is re-encoding and transcoding
> > your video and audio. Video will be sent at around 1024Kbps
> > using an mpeg-4 codec. Audio will be sent as a single channel
> > of 128Kbps mpeg audio (if you want stereo replace the
> > channels=1 with channels=2). Note that your CPU must
> > be grunty enough to handle this in real-time (mines a 2.4GHz
> > PIV). Newer versions of VLC have a wizard to help you
> > set up streams too.
> >
> > The only annoyance with this is that the VLC gui on the
> > content server lets you stop, start, pause, rewind and
> > fastforward the stream whereas the VLC gui on the
> > client doesn't let you do much other than stop or adjust
> > the volume. You can solve this by using X windows to
> > export the VLC gui on the content server to the client.
> >
> > In a perfect world mythbackend would use the videolan
> > library to stream to mythfrontends at user-specified
> > bitrates using user-specified codecs... I don't see
> > this happening though... sigh... oh! and uPnP or zerconf
> > would be a way of dynamically locating streamable
> > content across all machines... just dreaming.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Doug
> >
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