[mythtv-users] IPTV

[Robert Johnston]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 15:15, Jasper Stolte <jasperstolte at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Sorry to dig up this old thread, but I promised to keep you posted on the
> KPN situation in the Netherlands when I got my STB.
> I managed to borrow an old hub (16 ports no less). After I soldered an old
> notebook adapter to the power plug I was good to go.
> Following Robert's excellent pointers, I had the UDP stream found in no time
> using Wireshark.
> After that it took a long while to figure out how to actually read that
> stream since it wont read it as long as my wifi is online.. ??
> Taking the wifi offline, the stream finally did open in mplayer.
>
> The news is good: it's playing. Or at least, I think it is. Watching a
> Champions League game, I'm seeing a screen with a bit of green and a lot of
> artifacts. The sound is stuttering like crazy. Mplayer manages to tell me:
>
>            ************************************************
>            **** Your system is too SLOW to play this!  ****
>            ************************************************
>
> My 3 year old notebook may be a bit on the slow side by now, but I had
> expected it to run.. Maybe it's the ATI drivers again.
> Anyway. It seems that the KPN stream is not encrypted, and it is likely that
> the MythTV tuner will be able to open it!
> Now to get that HTPC installed. When that happens I'll get back to you with
> a config file for KPN iTV.

Have a look at the stream coming in within Wireshark. If it has
sections within the stream that are "FF FF FF FF FF FF", it is
encrypted (Though at the moment, I can't work out how - Where's the
missing data coming from?), and with the same method Sasktel are using
for some streams. The artifacts you are getting (Green sections,
stuttering sound, artifacts) sounds exactly like what happens when I
try to open one of Sasktel's encrypted streams.

You might also want to try passing in "-framedrop" into mplayer, to
see if letting it drop frames will help some. Glad to see you've got
something working, though.
-- 
Robert "Anaerin" Johnston
Sent from: Regina Saskatchewan Canada.