[mythtvnz] unpnp streaming of live tv

[Nick Rout]

All TV is recorded in mythtv, whether you like it or not. Even livetv.



On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Spider <mythtv at spides.co.nz> wrote:
> But that wouldn't be fun though would it? :-)
>
> I just want to start with viewing only, recording comes later when I shift
> the card into my server and get much more grunt to play with, not to mention
> a TB hard drive to store recordings.
>
> The immediate issue is live tv through unpnp to the PS3, once that is either
> confirmed or denied as a possibility, then if I have to, move on to stage
> two where I have to make a front end and put it in the lounge just to view
> tv, (and later to set up recordings).
> Stage two sounds more and more like an unavoidable event the more I search
> the net & forums.
>
> Tortise wrote:
>
> If you are sure that you only ever want LiveTV then it would be simpler and
> cheaper overall to simply buy a DVB-S STB.
> Kind regards
> David
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Spider
> To: MythTV in NZ
> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 9:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] unpnp streaming of live tv
> Woops. This is what I meant to send....
>
> The thing is I don't want to record anything, just view live tv. Essentially
> I'm trying to avoid buying a freeview decoder. :-)
>
> I'm picking I'll end up either with a Freeview tuner or a atom like head
> unit in the lounge, or both.
>
> Preferably I would like to just have the PS3, then I don't have to keep
> changing settings on the 42" plasma that we bought years ago (doesn't do
> 1080p or have hdmi) but works well with component (RGB) video.
>
> It's also annoying having a remote for the tv, a remote for the PS3, a
> remote for the stereo, and a remote for the sky reciever (and then there's
> the remote for the DVD that plays the region 1 dvds....). I know I'll only
> be changing one remote for another, but then at least I don't pay $40
> something to sky anymore....
>
> I did read that .22 did have planning for live tv, unless I read that wrong
> (most likely).
>
>
>
> Nick Rout wrote:
>
> The workaround is to record the prgram (use eg mythweb) and then
> stream it via upnp (while it is recording)
>
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Spider <mythtv at spides.co.nz> wrote:
>
>
> The atom would only be for the head end only - I already have a Blue ray
> player (PS3). ;-)
>
> At the moment I'm purely interested in the unpnp streaming of the live tv
> from the dvb card.
> The PS3 receives unpnp streams just fine, so that's what I want to display
> the freeview on. Admittedly I'll have to get the myth box connected to a
> wireless remote to change channels.... :-)
>
> Douglas Pearless wrote:
>
> As you cannot / do not want to receive Freeview HD, AND if Linux ever
> has a BLu-Ray player, you never want to use that either (I do not recall
> the intel 945GC having enough grunt for anything useful like on GPU
> video decoding), and the Atom is a very underpowered processor, then it
> could be suitable...
>
> Cheers
> Douglas.
>
> Spider wrote:
>
>
> Having been a long time reader of this list and never actually doing
> anything I have actually gotten around to actually building my mythtv
> box and have got it all working.
>
> Now I knew it had a unpnp streaming ability but didn't realize I
> couldn't stream live tv 'out of the box' or so I am lead to believe.
> Am I correct in this assumption or is it possible?
>
> I have built this system from my old linux PC and is a little under
> powered, however once this is proven one way or another I may install it
> on my current linux PC which is much gruntier... I'm using mediatomb on
> it now and it works well with my PS3.
>
> If mythtv can't stream live tv then I was thinking of using this atom
> powered shuttle box to view it instead.
>
> http://global.shuttle.com/product_detail.jsp?PI=1153
>
> Basically I want to drop sky soon, but I can only receive satellite
> signals where I am, no possibility of terrestrial freeview I'm very sad
> to say. :-(
>
>
>
>
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