[streaming] Re: RTSP streaming cable box

[Justin Wetherell]

"http streams" seem to have too much network overhead. My client computer is
on a 802.11B network and the stream seems to go to crap with anything but
RTSP. The idea right now (to get around client freeze problem), is to have
the client request a channel from the server, the server then checks to see
it it's recording, if it isn't than start up the RTSP stream, if it is
recording return a error code. I would really like this to be hidden from
the client computer. So the client computer (running Freevo also) would just
select a channel from the TV-guide and then the server would provide the
RTSP stream.

On 9/29/05, Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 09:06 -0400, Justin Wetherell wrote:
> > The TV tuner box is a freevo box. I currently use it as a recordserver
> > and play the files recorded over a NFS mount on the client box. I
> > ideally want to use VLC RTSP to stream live television to the client
> > box
>
> This is easily done already. Although as you mentioned, doing the
> channel changes is the difficult part.
>
> > It looks like I am getting very close, I just have to figure out how
> > to change channels on the server box without the client freezing up.
> > If I get this working, there is still a good amount of Freevo code to
> > write (since Freevo doesnt nativaly supprt VLC) but it's looking
> > promising.
>
> Yeah. It's a shame that mplayer does not play the rtsp streams. In the
> end, I resorted to using http streams instead. Works for now, but it's
> not the solution which I want.
>
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