[mythtvnz] DVB multicasting

[Ross and Jemima Knudsen]

Nick Rout wrote:
>> figurations...
>>     
>
> I don't have the answer to your question, but I can say that dvbstream
> can also multicast a whole transponder (or less if you don't want all
> of it).
>
> I have also seen a setup where vlc was used to stream the transponder
> and then used mythtv network recorder. This was before multirec came
> available in mythtv, so was a way around the lack of multirec.
>   
I did run across some posts using Google along those lines.  I didn't 
realise that it was a workaround for multirecord.  Mumudvb is a fork of 
dvbstream I believe and the developer is very helpful with pretty 
reasonable documentation so I'm pretty happy with it at the moment.  As 
for vlc, I also looked at it but decided against it because its a bit of 
overkill and I thought it might be a bit resource intensive because of 
that.  I'm wanting it to run as lean as possible on some fairly light 
hardware.  I have it running on a converted thin client (HP T5700) and 
the processes were using ~40% for each transponder so I can't squeeze 
much more out of it!
> So I don't have a solution for your problem, just suggestions for
> different ways to kill the cat :)
>   
Mmmm cat...

Thanks for your thoughts Nick.
> BTW I would think you'd be lucky to stream even one channel of DVB-T
> HD over wireless g, let alone a whole transponder!
>
>   
I might have been a bit optimistic but I thought one of the lower res 
channels might have worked OK.  I'm not really up to play with the whole 
multicast thing but since they are on separate IP addresses I assumed 
that you could just receive each channel separately.  I'm not too 
worried about it, I just thought I'd say what worked and what didn't.
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