HTTP video stream playback?

[YuppieScum]

Is there any way to have my HDR-FOX-T2 play HTTP video streams of the form http://[host]/[path]/[name].ts ?

Thanks...

 

[Black Hole]

No.

What there is a possibility of is accessing network storage by SMB or NFS, using network-shares-automount - see https://hummy.tv/forum/threads/network-shares-automount-package-released.1126/

 

[YuppieScum]

Thanks for the reply.

I already use that to play back video and music from my NAS, but I was hoping there would be some mechanism (perhaps via one of the custom portals) that would support playing the remote streams I subscribe to...

 

[Black Hole]

A custom portal function would rely on the built-in web browser being able to render the video stream - and it doesn't have that kind of capability (nor would the processor/memory be able to cope if it did). The only possibility I can foresee is to find a way to mount an external feed as if it were local storage (which is what NSA does) - then the Humax firmware is tricked into playing the file as if it were stored locally.

 

[Black Hole]

This might help: http://hummy.tv/forum/threads/searching-for-the-perfect-dlna-client-windows.399/#post-4819

 

[YuppieScum]

Aha! Use a DLNA server to re-stream the HTTP content - I hadn't thought of that.

I'll give that a go - thanks for your help and, of course, for your on-going work