Is there any model of Humax that provides its stream over an ethernet port or wireless network link?
My satellite setup is in the lounge, and my PC is in a bedroom converted to an office, and I would love to watch the stream on the PC, via my router's wireless home network.
Can it be done?
Wibs
Yes, just tried it on the Foxsat HDR. The steps are:
Remove Twonky and install Mediatomb on your Foxsat HDR
In the web interface, find the new Mediatomb plugin and make sure the Video folder is being scanned. You should see 0.ts in there.
You now need a player. I use MX Player on Android and point it at the stream:
http://
192.168.0.51/media/Video/0.ts
Substitute the IP address of your Foxsat HDR.
One alternative is to install UPnP by bebopfreak, and use that to find the streams that Mediatomb supplies. (If I use Twonky, I just see an expired license message.) You will then need to pass the stream to an Android player, MX Player or VPlayer will both play .ts files, I am sure there are more. Or, you can browse and play other recordings.
VLC Media Player will happily play the live stream above on a PC. A channel change seems to reset it to the beginning, and causes playback to freeze. I am finding playback of HD to be choppy, but just had SD playback of Bargain Hunt playing perfectly on my laptop, and only slightly delayed, the delay being the time between my changing to Channel 101 and my starting playback on VLC.