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Author:  ewills [ Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:53 pm ]
Post subject:  Using VLC to stream Windows Media files
I have not had success with this yet. I'd really like to crack this nut so I can watch my favorite football teams on CSTV using my MythTV box. So far, I can only watch these games upstairs on my Windows PC :(

I read about the latest additions to VLC (ability to read streaming wmv1 and wmv2 files) and tried 'apt-get install vlc' (using the 'sarge' line in /etc/apt/sources.list) to get VLC to stream windows media files on my Linux PC (Running Linux 2.6/R5A16). So far, all I get is about 20 seconds worth of audio and a blank picture.

Thanks in advance for your help.
Author:  Xsecrets [ Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:37 pm ]
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have you searched for mythstreamtv?
Author:  khrusher [ Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:18 am ]
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this is intresting....kind of a 'reverse mythstreamtv' if I understand you.

Are you tring to stream the files directly from the windows box or are you using streaming from the linux box from a network mounted disk?

I'll assume the latter, since you mention apt-get. Have you read the vlc docs, there are a million config options. mythstreamtv as documented here and the Wiki will stream pvr created files (mpeg2) but to get that to work a long list of config options needs to be manually compiled into vlc and ffmpeg.

Any chance your files are mpeg2? If so, as Xsecret suggests, look into mythstreamtv to config vlc, the mythweb interface is probably not applicable, you'll need to use the commandline

if your files are not mpeg2, you may need to identify the correct set of config options for vlc.

let me know what kind of data you are trying to stream
Author:  ewills [ Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:14 am ]
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Sorry for the confusion...

All I'm trying to do is log on to a website that is sending a Windows Media Player (wmv) stream and watch it on my Linux/MythTV box using a browser or some other program run from GDM (or even a console if that is what it takes). I thought VLC took care of this for you, but have not been able to make it work yet.

I AM NOT trying to transmit/stream stuff from my MythTV system (yet!).


khrusher wrote:
this is intresting....kind of a 'reverse mythstreamtv' if I understand you.

Are you tring to stream the files directly from the windows box or are you using streaming from the linux box from a network mounted disk?

I'll assume the latter, since you mention apt-get. Have you read the vlc docs, there are a million config options. mythstreamtv as documented here and the Wiki will stream pvr created files (mpeg2) but to get that to work a long list of config options needs to be manually compiled into vlc and ffmpeg.

Any chance your files are mpeg2? If so, as Xsecret suggests, look into mythstreamtv to config vlc, the mythweb interface is probably not applicable, you'll need to use the commandline

if your files are not mpeg2, you may need to identify the correct set of config options for vlc.

let me know what kind of data you are trying to stream
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