Is it possible to watch HDTV on PC streamed in realtime from Dreambox?

[tintoy]

Is it possible to watch an HDTV channel from a PC in realtime by "reading" the stream from the Dreambox.

Currently I am able to watch HDTV material on PC (e.g. with VLC) only after recording it on the dreambox and then ftp-ing it to the pc.

With VLC Player I can see in realtime (without recording it) what the dreambox is receiving by using the HTTP/FTP/MMS method.
But this is true only for SDTV channels, not for HDTV, as I suppose VLC just receive what the dreambox has trasformed from DVB standard to PAL. It is just like setting the display to a different machine...

Currently on Astra (19.2E) and Hobird (13E) there are four HDTV channels:

Sat.1 HD (19.2E)
Euro1080 (19.2E)
ASTRA HD (19.2E)
HD Forum (13E)

ASTRA HD & HD Forum are FTA, Euro1080 is both FTA & Encryted, Sat.1 HD seams to be just encrypted.

[kahnan]

Don't you get any picture at all with HDTV? or is it low res.
I have stremed from AstraHDTV on 5E with good result, at first the resolution was not good at all but after changing the interlace settings on VLC the resolution where great..
But I can't say for sure if it is real HDTV.

/Kahnan

[tintoy]

No picture at all.
VLC does not open any viewer at all like there is no signal.
This evening I will try again, maybe chaning some interlace parameters.

If you record it and then transfer to pc, you will see that it's "true" HDTV!
Actually I was not able to verify with a proper player (not VLC) the real 1920x1080 resolution.

TinToy

[andriko]

yes, it's possible, I watch euro1080 from sirius with mplayer

[kahnan]

Originally Posted by tintoy

No picture at all.
VLC does not open any viewer at all like there is no signal.
This evening I will try again, maybe chaning some interlace parameters.

If you record it and then transfer to pc, you will see that it's "true" HDTV!
Actually I was not able to verify with a proper player (not VLC) the real 1920x1080 resolution.

TinToy

I know that at least Astra1080 on 5E sends crypted from time to time, then VLC does not open any viewer, but when it sends FTA then I can watch it with VLC.
I can't neither verify the resolution but it looks really good on my LCD computer screen, better than when streaming the other channels so I think it is HDTV resolution.

/Kahnan

[scapin]

...no problem with BitControl codecs...search 4 BitControl or go to BitControl.com
Personally tested with my Dbox Hydra+lan+WinXP+Wmplayer and these codecs.

[tintoy]

Probably I was not able to properly explain my issue.
I am able to see HDTV material on my PC by using VLC or ZoomPlayer with Elecard Codec (I verified yesterday, all material is actually 1920x1080), my problem is that I would like to stream it from the DB connected via LAN to the PC without recording the HDTV content, copying it to the PC and only then using a Player to see it.

With WMPlayer, are you able to stream the HDTV content directly from Dbox?

Thanks,

Tintoy

PS

OK, I have seen BitControl site and it seams that it is the solution.
Unfortunatelly it is not free. My objective is just to do some test...

Originally Posted by scapin

...no problem with BitControl codecs...search 4 BitControl or go to BitControl.com
Personally tested with my Dbox Hydra+lan+WinXP+Wmplayer and these codecs.

[kahnan]

Originally Posted by tintoy

Probably I was not able to properly explain my issue.
I am able to see HDTV material on my PC by using VLC or ZoomPlayer with Elecard Codec (I verified yesterday, all material is actually 1920x1080), my problem is that I would like to stream it from the DB connected via LAN to the PC without recording the HDTV content, copying it to the PC and only then using a Player to see it.

With WMPlayer, are you able to stream the HDTV content directly from Dbox?

Thanks,

Tintoy

PS

OK, I have seen BitControl site and it seams that it is the solution.
Unfortunatelly it is not free. My objective is just to do some test...

I'm using VLC and watch it without recording it.

/Kahnan

[pitxo]

Put the adress of your dream in your browser (eg. "http://192.168.0.128").
Select the channel you want see. On top of the page there is a link named vpid:, then whit the mouse on it (eg. 0x6e) select save to disk, you get a file named "video.pls", select it with the mouse right button "open with" and choose vlc media player and in a couple od seconds you can see the stream with videolan.
Sorry for my bad english. I'm spanish.
Greetings from here.
- pitxo -

[tintoy]

Thank you for your suggestion.
I will try this evening and I will let you know if it works with HDTV channels too.

TinToy

Originally Posted by pitxo

Put the adress of your dream in your browser (eg. "http://192.168.0.128").
Select the channel you want see. On top of the page there is a link named vpid:, then whit the mouse on it (eg. 0x6e) select save to disk, you get a file named "video.pls", select it with the mouse right button "open with" and choose vlc media player and in a couple od seconds you can see the stream with videolan.
Sorry for my bad english. I'm spanish.
Greetings from here.
- pitxo -