[sclug] Playing with video (DVB-T)

[Alex Butcher]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2012, Jason Rivers wrote:

> I've been playing with video streaming lately, so that while my flatmate is 
> watching some crap on TV I can still watch something else...
>
> I have a system with 2 DVB-T tuners, I'll just start with 1 card, tuned to 
> 666000000 which allows me to get all the BBC goodness and currently using 
> DVBlast to get all the channels over the network on Multicast (seperate 
> Multicast IP for each channel). E.G.
>
> rtp://239.255.1.1:5004 ##BBC1
> rtp://239.255.1.2:5004 ##BBC2
> rtp://239.255.1.3:5004 ##BBC3
> rtp://239.255.1.4:5004 ##BBC4

OK, that's cool, but if it's just for you (i.e. one consuming client, as
opposed to many - a student hall, for instance), why are you even going down
the multicast route?

Surely a dumb DVB player application (mplayer, kaffeine, Me-TV) - or MythTV
at most - would suffice?

> Jason.

Best Regards,
Alex