[streaming] Re: How to stream high-def video over a LAN?

[Chhaya, Harshal]

Tristan wrote:
> The Moonlight plugin of Elecard is an UDP MPEG-TS plugin for 
> wmp. I am not sure it works in your case since you want to 
> use the DxVA.

I have tried the Moonlight plug-in and have used it to play
MPEG2-TS over UDP in WMP. It does enable playback of a UDP 
stream but their released version has the same issues as vlc
i.e. takes too much of CPU to playback a 1080i stream.

However, Moonlight has a beta version of their DxVA-enabled 
MPEG decoder. I am not really sure how to use this version 
and I am hoping that they move it out of beta soon so I can 
use it.

I also got an HDTV tuner + decoder card and am trying to see
if I can use the on-board MPEG decoder chip to decode the HD
stream.

> > Is there any other way I can stream these high-definition
> > files? Are there other players that can decode MPEG-TS over
> > UDP?
> 
> There are not many, and they hardly do HD... you should really 
> get a more powerful CPU and use vlc !

That's what I am working on. I have asked for a faster PC and
hopefully will get it sometime soon.

In the meantime I demo'ed the system this week by streaming an
MPEG4-HD file (DivX HD) through vlc and played it through vlc
too. Worked great but the data rate was less than half that of
an MPEG2-HD stream.

Thanks again for all your help and more so for making vlc such
a great app!

- Harshal

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