Stream to PS3

mplayer

You need to go to deal databse if you want to know more.

 

As long as you have the server (tserver, vserver - I forget) running on the TiVo end, it does indeed work like that.

 

You're definitely running vserver (not tserver) and can connect to it with telnet?

 

Are you sure that version on mplayer is TiVo compatible? many variants knocking around have been compiled without TiVo support.

what do you get from:

mplayer tivo://192.168.1.105/list

 

I notice from your post in the other place that you have VLC installed as well - does that not work either?

 

Hmm, just tried to do it myself with the latest version of VLC and mplayer with no joy.

I think something's got broken with them down the line.

 

FWIW, I booted up an old PC which I'd streamed to previously and it was working fine using the TY enabled mplyer v0.90

 

I get basically the same error using Gentoo Linux on a PC.

Playing tivo://tivo1.xxx/plist.
No stream found to handle url tivo://​

 

Your mplayer binary is no good since it has not been compiled with vstream support.

You need to download the mplayer source tarball from mplayer.hu [1] and compile it yourself, including support for tivo vstream.


But before you do that, first ensure that you have both the vstream-client [2] package installed, and also (at least on fedora), the vstream-client-devel [3] package.

The latter package, which might be called something else in your distro, provides the required C header file /usr/include/vstream-client.h without which you will encounter a fatal compiler error.

When running ./configure, you need to manually issue the command line option to include vstream support, since support is disabled by default.

Code:

 ./configure --enable-vstream

When configure has successfully executed, you can check that vstream support is indeed going to be compiled into the mplayer binary:

Code:

Config files successfully generated by ./configure !
....
  Enabled optional drivers:
    Input: [b]vstream[/b] ftp network tv-v4l2 tv-v4l tv mpdvdkit2 vcd dvb smb
.....

Fingers crossed, and make should start the successful compilation of mplayer!

Zzzzzzzz!

Nine minutes later on this AthlonXP 2000+, and mplayer has finally compiled.

Now you must ensure that vserver is actually running on your tivo..

Code:

tivo bash-202# vserver-ppc-s1-exec
waiting for connections on port 8074

It is, and so we can use our vstream-enabled version of mplayer to get a list of the available streams on the tivo..

Code:

[ibx100@ibxbox MPlayer-1.0rc1]$ ./mplayer tivo://tivo/list

MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team

Playing tivo://tivo/list.
Connecting to server tivo[123.123.123.123]: 8074...
546770 -- 07/07/07 18:40 -- 03 -- ITV1BS
546488 -- 07/06/07 18:40 -- 03 -- ITV1BS
546206 -- 07/05/07 18:40 -- 03 -- ITV1BS
545924 -- 07/04/07 18:40 -- 03 -- ITV1BS
545577 -- 07/03/07 18:40 -- 03 -- ITV1BS
......

Success!

Best of Luck!
ibx100

[1][2][3] - All URLs ripped out by forum s/w

 

OKAY for anyone (especially Alextegg) wanting to stream an avi, xvid, wmv, whatever to the PS3 there's a fairly simple way to do so...

You use Nero Mediahome which acts as a media server, talks to the PS3 to determine what format the PS3 would like the movie to be in and then it transcodes the avi or whatever on the fly which is sent to the PS3 which sends it off to your TV....

Boo I can't post a regular URL till I make 5 posts.... you'll have to google the following topic and it should come up as the first hit....

"PC to PS3 Media Streaming (DLNA) Thread"

or google "For v1.80 users: PS3 AVI Transcoding On-The-Fly" it too should come up as the first hit....