Thread: Http streaming and the Azbox

Thanks LAK7 and B.J. for all the information. I'm kind of new at using Linux system. I'm used to the PC format. I will try testing the UDP feature sometime to see how far, I can get with it.

Originally Posted by Babadem

Thanks LAK7 and B.J. for all the information. I'm kind of new at using Linux system. I'm used to the PC format. I will try testing the UDP feature sometime to see how far, I can get with it.

There's really no Linux involved with what I've been doing for UDP streaming. If you have some .mpg files you want to stream, I'd recommend getting a copy of VLC at
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, and play around with playing the files on the computer. THen, after you get familiar with it, there is a little check box to "STREAM", when you load a file, depending upon which version you have, there will be either a check box to stream with a setup button next to it, or a drop down menu to stream , and in the setup stream, you set it for UDP, and give it the address of your Azbox. I use an older version of VLC. The newer versions don't seem to want you to use UDP, but you can over-ride their advise.

Anyway, VLC is a nice program, and it's free. It can do a lot of things that I don't understand, but yet it's simple enough as to be fairly user friendly for people like me who aren't that familiar with video formats.

VLC has some other related program that functions more as a video server, but I think it is only available for Linux. I do have a linux based file server on my LAN, but I'm not sure if the linux version on it is compatable with this VLC server. I have another computer with and older version of Red Hat on it, but it's currently turned off, and I haven't used it for a couple years. I should probably start that up again and modernize it.

As a status reminder, I had created a couple UDP "channels" that worked, and tried to create an HTTP channel that didn't work.

It seemed strange to me that when you viewed the details of these "channels" in the channel list, that it didn't indicate ANY info about the IP# of the IP channel.

So I was curious whether the channel editors might give more info than that which appears on the TV screen. I first tried the MAZ22 editor. It gave nothing but gibberish, basically a 10 digit number for the "frequency", which I was unable to convert to an IP# via the usual methods. It DID, however give the port number for the UDP channel in one of the PID categories (I forget which). But no apparent way of viewing or editing any of the IP data that I could figure out.
When I tried the 2880 version of the Azbox editor, it initially gave the same 10 digit numbers, and showed the same other gibberish values in what it was interpreting as the video parameters for the "channel", however if I right clicked the channel and selected "edit", it popped up a window which had the IP channel data. For my UDP channel (for some reason it only had 1 listed, even though 2 appeared on the Azbox channel list), it gave the proper IP# and port number that I had set up. For my HTTP channel, however, it had the wrong IP#, and it had a blank port number. So it seems like either the HTTP channel didn't get set up properly in the Azbox, or perhaps the editor didn't understand the data it retrieved from the Azbox.
Anyway, no progress to report, but just wanted to comment on what the data displayed by the 2 channel editor programs.


EDIT: Another oddity, the MAZ22 program indicated that the IP channels were in Tuner B, while the display on the Azbox said they were in Tuner A. Not a big issue, since in actuality they weren't coming from EITHER tuner, but just another indication that MAZ22 didn't know how to interpret the data. The 2880 azbox editor didn't indicate which tuners anything was in.