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Internet TV (even p2p!) streaming to Dreambox

by on Jan.26, 2008, under Tips and Tricks

I’ve been flooded by your requests since my “Streaming live camera feed to Dreambox” article and now, finally, the time has come: you don’t have to wait anymore :) For those who don’t know what I’m talking about… it’s how to watch your favorite p2p internet channel on your dear Dreambox! Yeah, you can now sit on your sofa watching porn movies from the Internet on your 52” plasma :D

Requirements

- Broadband Internet connection
- Internet Stream recording software (Cool-Recorder, SDP Downloader, etc.)
- A working VLCF-Final plugin installation on your Dreambox which correctly communicates with your PC (check my previous tutorial for help on this stuff)

Let’s do it!

First of all, you need the address of the stream you want to bounce back to your Dreambox. If you don’t know it, try to watch the stream in your browser. Right click in the video area and choose Properties from the menu. In this window, look for the Location property (names may change depending on the web player, just be sure to look for an URI): that’s the address of the stream.

Now run VLC, and leave it running on the background, since this is needed for VLCF-Final plugin on your Dreambox to work. Once you’re done with that, run the stream recording software you’ve chosen and paste the stream address in it. Then choose the path and file name to write the stream to, but don’t forget it needs to be in a folder that VLCF-Final is configured to scan (if you can’t understand, look for vlcf_original.xml in this article).

Now run VLCF-Final plugin from the plugins panel on your Dreambox and open the file you are writing the stream to. After few seconds, the stream should play on your TV :)

Hey, if you found this post useful, need help or just want to insult me, feel free to post a comment! Also, it would be very nice if you would buy me a beer (check the right panel) ;)

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4 Comments for this entry

  • writetome

    Hi,
    I wrote something similar on

    http://www.i-have-a-dreambox.com/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=87408&hilightuser=36335

    have a look.

    I’d like to exchange obsevation and progress to You

    Best regards

    Write

  • Alessio Placitelli

    Interesting, that was the first approach I tried, but I don’t know why it didn’t work.

    The positive side of your method is that no files are written on the disk, thus relaxing disk space requirements!

    It’s always inspiring to see other effective solutions to problems.

  • write

    Yes, You are rigth, basically I realize e local broadcast, thanks to VLC and than I catch the broadcast on Dreambox using VLCF.

    But … VLC works not for all TV streams ….
    I’m looking for an application ( like Reaply Media Catcher ) able to catch stream and BROADCAST locally the catched stream but, up to now, a was not able to find that on the web

  • Alessio Placitelli

    I really don’t know about any similar software :(

    Is there any particular issue with VLC? Did you find out why it doesn’t work with all tv streams?

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