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Re: Streaming avi,divx movies to Dreambox #21 elpichon

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Posted 28 November 2007 - 11:01

Hi, all.
It's working now the file convertion thank you all.
One question more, when i stream from my dreambox to my laptop with cable the video have a lot's of breaks!
Someone knows how can i resolve this problem?

Re: Streaming avi,divx movies to Dreambox #22 jornaa

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Posted 28 November 2007 - 14:06

For those of you who did not get the script to work If yu copied the script and not used the included text file, there is missing a colon here. And there wil be no output from this script. The colon was missing after channels=2}.
If you correct this the script will work OK.
If you are using wireless or have low bandwith, you can try to change:
vb=3072 to vb=2048 or vb=1024
or scale=1 to scale=0.5

This will of couse lower the quality of the picture.

I have not tested this on DB, so i am not shure if it wil work, but it works ok for streaming between two pc,s.


Here's a handy solution I found on my travels through all things related to recording/streaming from/to dreambox. It's a VLC script which you can drag and drop a movie file onto (all formats accepted avi,divx,etc) and it converts the movie to a transport stream format file in the movies mount folder on your PC. So on your DM box it will show up as a recorded movie & you can view it while it is being converted by VLC. You also, at the end, have a copy of the movie in ts format on your mount folder.

Just create a .bat file with this content:


"%ProgramFiles%\VideoLan\VLC\vlc" -vvv %1 :sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vb=3072,scale=1,acodec=mp2a,ab=192,fps=25,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=ts,dst="C:\db\hdd\movie\%~n1.ts"}}

Change C:\db\hdd\movies to your mount folder



Re: Streaming avi,divx movies to Dreambox #23 dweeb4

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Posted 28 November 2007 - 15:38

Hi Elpichon,
Streaming from Db to PC is another story altogether & there is a wealth of postings on it here. Basically, on a 500 DB it's flawed but the zapstream plugin (in the current PLi image) goes a long way towrds solving these flaws. The new version of zapstream completely solves all the flaws, I believe. When will this be released, is your next question, I know - with the next PLi image relaease I assume.

Hi jornaa,
Thanks for the clarification - was this a mistake in the attached batch file also?
Another option is to convert avi or divx files to widescreen ts files by using the width=704,height=576 (IIRC)

Edit: I have edited the first post to reflect these suggestions/corrections

Re: Streaming avi,divx movies to Dreambox #24 jornaa

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Posted 28 November 2007 - 15:48

Hi, dweeb4

No, the attached file seems Ok.
Can You edit your firs post again and press "Disable Smileys in this post "

Re: Streaming avi,divx movies to Dreambox #25 dweeb4

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Posted 28 November 2007 - 15:56

Ah, That's what caused the initial problem - thanks, Done!

Re: Streaming avi,divx movies to Dreambox #26 guillaumeloriot

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Posted 10 December 2007 - 20:54

I have found options to use with vlc to keep the good ratio of a movie when viewing on a 16:9 tvscreen. It adds black strips where it lacks. With this, no more widescreen movie cut on the sides:

Try to add: canvas-aspect=16:9,canvas-width=720,canvas-height=576
for 16:9 PAL

I think it'll work also with other resolutions!

Re: Streaming avi,divx movies to Dreambox #27 dweeb4

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Posted 12 December 2007 - 19:40

Thanks for adding to this thread, guill - I will give this a try!

Re: Streaming avi,divx movies to Dreambox #28 dweeb4

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Posted 19 December 2007 - 23:48

I tried it & found it gave a rather wide black line around the image - viewable picture was down to about a quarter of the screen but centred. Did you try this, what results? I will go back to my original settings

Re: Streaming avi,divx movies to Dreambox #29 Tii

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Posted 27 January 2008 - 13:19

been using the bat file, with mixed results...
some movies turn out good, others have messed-up aspect ratio and are badly cropped.

Hints anyone?
Thx & good luck,
T.


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