[mythtv] IPTV project - 'officially' starting

[Steve Adeff]

On Thursday 10 November 2005 22:14, Robert Johnston wrote:
> On 11/10/05, Jun Yu <junyuu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am interested in the idea or GPL iptv solution but not quite sure about
> > what you are referring to here. Are you talking about to use backend as
> > server and stream the video to the frontend which is pretty much what
> > mythtv does today? Simply enable UDP multicast isn't going anyway unless
> > you have router supports multicast to MANY users with MANY video sources.
> > You don't need multicast to support 2 or 3, even 4 or 5 frontends which
> > is a lot comparing to what most of us have at home. Also, with mutilcast,
> > the frontend would have to buffer the video so it can moving back which
> > make it a recorder also.
> >  I am in the process of building my home entertainment system with one
> > backend with 4 tunners and 4 frontends for each TV.
> >  My idea of  IPTV infrastructure would be like this: a server/backend
> > shoot out video programming on different channels (AKA multicast IPs),
> > when client chose a channel, it register corrordinate multicast IP with
> > the route which will then distributing the stream down. But that is
> > hardly needed by any family, I would think.
> >  Paul, It is not my intention to shot anyone rather than sharing my 2
> > cents.
>
> I think you've missed what IPTV is here, Jun.
>
> IPTV is a system for service providers to provide television services
> over high-speed internet connections (Cable Modem or ADSL2, for
> example).
>
> An example would be the UK "HomeChoice" system, where "HomeChoice"
> provide a DSL line and a STB that connects to it. They then have a
> smart client on the STB that requests programming from "HomeChoice"'s
> content servers, which is unicast/multicasted to the STB using TCP/IP
> over the DSL link. This also enables the STB to make use of the
> content server's large capacity, by requesting a specific program from
> a specific time to be streamed, rather than just "Live TV".
>
> At least, I hope that's what version of IPTV this thread is about,
> otherwise I have inserted my foot very firmly into my mouth on this
> one. :)
> --
> Robert "Anaerin" Johnston

I assumeyou mean how Verizon plans on offering HDTV through their FIOS 
service? From what I've heard they are currently doing a test run of this in 
1 neighborhood in the States. From what I hear their plan is to eventually 
offer normal cable-type service through their FIOS lines.

Steve