Streaming TV around the house

[Johnain]

I have a number of DVB-S tuners, including two tuner PCI cards mounted on PCs. Plus a couple of Hauppage USB tuner cards.

Yesterday I managed to set up streaming around the house from my "Server" PC to any other PCs on my WiFi and/or TCP/IP network.

So, two questions.

1. Is this an area that some members might find interesting, and if so should I write a descriptive message explaing how I did this?

2. If so, is this the area of the forum where I should do so.

... by the way, it is surprisingly easy, and not all that "Techie"

[SatWaveDude]

Re: Streaming TV around the house

Tell a little bit more about your streaming server.
What software did you use, how many streams etc...
Many of the enigma2 receivers used here you already can stream from without the need of a server ortherwise if you stream over the internet you have to trancoding the stream them you need a pc or server to do this.
Anyway tell us your setup it might be interesting

[lotuselite]

Re: Streaming TV around the house

Please tell. Looking forward to your detailed setup instructions. Thanks in advance.

[purenirvana]

Re: Streaming TV around the house

Hi Johnain, I would say that a write up to assist people with this might come in handy. Lots of people seem to struggle with network configurations etc. so if you have a simple way of doing this, I think it would help a fair few people.

In terms of where on the forum to post, I'd say this is the right area as I see no other category that matches the topic. The forum mods would have the final say on that though

[fandm]

Re: Streaming TV around the house

if you do not have Linux it does not mean that you cannot stream around the house.
And if you do not have wifi you can still stream around the house just buy some mains adapters that plug into your sockets and then plug your router into them.

[p1ngb4ck]

Re: Streaming TV around the house

I am doing the same with mythtv. backend on gentoo - htpc and frontends are available for linux,windows and android. can also use my android phone to manage devices / control tv.

regards, p1ngb4ck

[herrr]

Re: Streaming TV around the house

In DvbDream:
Preferences: LAN Streaming: slash active and use (or change) port that you read there.
On client pc open vlc.
In VLC: open URL and write there adress and port (default 127.0.0.1:1234).

[SatWaveDude]

Re: Streaming TV around the house

I am doing the same with mythtv. backend on gentoo - htpc and frontends are available for linux,windows and android. can also use my android phone to manage devices / control tv.

regards, p1ngb4ck

That looks interesting.
Can you control a DVB-S2 card with MythTV ?
Let us now more about your hardware.

[Johnain]

Re: Streaming TV around the house

Tell a little bit more about your streaming server.
What software did you use, how many streams etc...
Many of the enigma2 receivers used here you already can stream from without the need of a server ortherwise if you stream over the internet you have to trancoding the stream them you need a pc or server to do this.
Anyway tell us your setup it might be interesting

Aah! It looks as though I have mis-used a technical term. Sorry, I suppose it is the peril of being a newbie in a the Satellite world.

I used the term "Server" to describe the main source of media transmissions around my LAN / WiFi installation within my home. Not to describe streaming across the internet. I have not reached those dizzy hights yet.

However, bearing in mind some of the other responses - and all of them were helpful and interesting - I will put together a description of the way in which I have accomplished my distribution at what will, I suspect be layman level.

I have much to learn from you guys, so my objective right now is to try and make a useful contribution to the overall knowlege pool. I guess that there are many different levels of experience and ambition on this forum.

I will do it over the next couple of days, and post it here, and I will look forward to any comments and advice that I might receive.

[kostis]

Re: Streaming TV around the house

word "server" can be used for many orher ways of "giving-sharing" so dont worry. but if you need a couple of days to explain then maybe it will not be that easy.

[duhoki]

Re: Streaming TV around the house

I just want to say thank you for your contribution on forum. Maybe you can post it in tutorial thread or let the admin move it for you. If we dont have a tutorial thread for this kind of information, maybe admin can create one?

[p1ngb4ck]

Re: Streaming TV around the house

Okay, I was asked via private message, if I could explain my setup some more into detail, so here we go :

I am father of a 1 year old son that doesnt have an endless amount of money, so I don`t have the possibility to buy new hardware etc. very often, I mostly have "to live with" old, sometimes used hardware, but with a bit of tuning everything works fine.

My hardware : (to be complete and for understanding the topology)

2 desktop-pcs: 1 ready for multimedia and lowend gaming (my wifes ) and mine, with more modern hardware and full-hd screen.
2 laptops : my working and multimedia-laptop, hd-"ready" Acer and an older, partly destroyed (has no internal keyboard anybore) Toshiba A100-151.
1 crt - tv (veeeery old)
1 soundstation, cheap one, with simple 3,5" jack aux-sound-input
2 cheap android smartphones (Samsung Galaxy Ace, rooted & with custom rom (jellybean)) .. my wifes and mine
1 dreambox (dm500s) with smartcard inserted.
I also have a simple usb-sat-tv-tuner (TeVii S660) and a usb-infrared-sender/receiver-module.

In my special case (look at "ipv6"-threads here in the forum) I am using 2 Fritz!Box-routers also, 1 (6360 Cable) from my provider, with original firmware ("locked" model, no custom/freetz-firmwares available) and a very old FonWlan-7050 attached to it. The old Fritz!Box 7050 is freetzed, and running openvpn and cccam (currently, downloaded working oscam bin for freetz already, didnt have the time yet). I need that openvpn-setup due to my provider giving me a so called DS-Lite connection for IPv4 only, which makes nat, portforwardings etc impossible.

My goal was to make tv and multimedia-ressources available for all possible devices without the need of running a full-featured pc for multimedia-playback of prerecorded files on one of the android handys or the desktop-pc.
Since I have a hdd attached to my main router, this is not a problem at all and discussed in many threads already. (UPnP streaming from fritzbox)

Additionally, I wanted to be able to watch live-hd-tv on the desktop-pc and the laptop that is able to do so, and I wanted a "better" dreambox attached to my crt and soundstation.

So I turned the toshiba-laptop into a htpc-machine, by attaching the crt-tv, the soundstation and the usb-sat-tuner and usb-ir-device to it. It is running on gentoo with mythtv on it, with proper standby-setup (suspend to ram), lircd for infrared remote (in connection with that usb-infrared-sender/receiver) and a software called "sasc-ng" which is a softcam daemon, that kind of emulates a second dvb-tv-tuner, imitating the original one, but with decryption layer in between, so that pay-tv can be decrypted. sasc-ng is able to be a client to any current cardserver-protocol, but cannot act as a server (as far as I know).
I then have installed mythtv-frontends or mythdroid (the android app for mythtv) on all devices and configured mythtv properly (takes a lot of time due to endless options).

Features :
-Live-tv, Timeshifting on any "real-pc" host but not (yet, its under heavy developement) on android. hd-playback on any frontend that is able to playback hd-content (doesnt make sense much on old tiny crt-tv does it ;D)
-Playback of any type of media-files/stream, on all linux/windows/android-device, either via own frontend/app or via upnp (parallely + additionally)
-Remote-control from android for any pc-frontend, including external devices via infrared (control old crt-tv + cheap soundstation from android remote)
-Mythtv can control multiple tuners of all types (dvb, networktuners, etc etc) and record from them, easily via epg (also supports dvb-epg via dvb-stream).
-Full-featured (I think a bit tooo many options) post-processing of recordings, including detection (and removal) of commercials, reencoding of media-files (for archives etc. or like in my case to put those files on external hdd attached to my router) and features for optical-devies (archive media to disk, playback of bluray etc)



Downsides/planned features :

I have an old dreambox, which is currently being used as kind of a enhanced smartreader only : running CCcam on it (will change to oscam as soon as oscam is installed to freetzed fritzbox too, if I dont have a smartreader until then) and passing the smartcard to the freetzed-fritzbox, where the "main" cardserver is located (so that clients can connect via vpn). The htpc-laptop is then another client of the freetzbox. Also, I have UnityMedia cable-tv available at home now, but yet no dvb-c-tuner available =(.

So the next thing will be to buy a sundtek dvb-c-usb-tuner, there are driver for modules for freetz available, making it possible to let that freetzbox stream tv-signal, so I can perhaps even watch live-tv on android-tablet/smartphone in the future without having the htpc run. Also a smargo is definitely already on the list of planned devices

So far, if you`re not too interested, please just skip that wall of text
regards, p1ngb4ck

Edit : I think duhoki is absolutely right, if a nice moderator would be so kind to create a "HowTo"-section for mediacenter and home-streaming and all kind of stuff like that, this would be too awesome.