4.2.2 feeds with 4k box and VLC.

[kegnkiwi]

Could any members who play around with 4.2.2. feeds possibly answer this question. Last week I tuned into a feed for football that was 4.2.2. I did not realize at the time it was 4.2.2. but after putting the Biss key in I managed to get audio coming through. Now my question is could that picture be streamed to a laptop with a graphics card and played via vlc. I tried this out but i could not see the channel that I had just scanned in the channel list on the webif of my 4k box.

 

[manic01]

@barney115 @moonbase may be able to help

 

[kegnkiwi]

@barney115 @moonbase may be able to help

I thought they would, I thought it might have been easy but the scanned feed channel the other day did not go into my channels list as shown on the webif. If it had I would have taken the url and put it into vlc on my laptop.

 

[foxx®]

If it is an Enigma 2 box, then after scanning, look in the "Last Scanned" bouqet

 

[kegnkiwi]

If it is an Enigma 2 box, then after scanning, look in the "Last Scanned" bouqet

Thanks @foxx® i shall take a look in there.

 

[barney115]

I Tried using E2 box it will stream 4:2:2 Feeds to my PC works okay , but then you are looking to add in a WIFI Device such as a Laptop to stream from your Enigma 2 box ??
you will need Codecs such as VLC but when i tried this it was very Laggy on WIFI network simply because your Enigma 2 Linux box has no real Specs to be Re-streaming and Linux to Windows tends to be okay but i'd advise at least going Hardwired with your Laptop
the reason you only had Audio could be feed was UHD And 4:2:2 or you were not using VLC
the easier solution would be getting a TBS QBOX and doing direct 4:2:2 streaming with no LAG and using DVBDream
as long as your Sat cable is long enough it wont be an issue : )
i never had any faith in E2 Boxes they were never made to use with feeds hence why all have absolute dog sh1t tuners and mostly cheap trash specs in them .

 

[kegnkiwi]

@barney115 my e2 boxes are hard wired to my hub 5 router. Laptop is WiFi to hub. In the next few days I will play around with it to see if its possible. It's just something else to have a play with. The point of the thread was just to ask if it's possible. Thanks everyone for all your comments.

 

[barney115]

its very possible indeed , the quality tho' may not be what you were expecting however due to WIFI especially if on DSL
but indeed have a play around with it WIFI signals are now much improved from years ago and do'nt get me wrong even E2 Boxes are vastly improved when E1 Boxes were a thing and their very bad specs ,
it should be very straight forward just like entering Webinfo on a hard wired PC .
Good luck

 

[Pabloisred]

I find the easy way to do the 4:2:2 is using an apple tv box via the VLC app and Webif. Works very well for the 1west champs league feeds but I cannot comment on 4k streams.

 

[kegnkiwi]

I find the easy way to do the 4:2:2 is using an apple tv box via the VLC app and Webif. Works very well for the 1west champs league feeds but I cannot comment on 4k streams.

This would be similar to using a laptop with vlc but where are you getting the link to drop into vlc? If you scan in a feed where does the channel link live in your webif that you pass onto the apple 4k box. @foxx® above mentioned "If it is an Enigma 2 box, then after scanning, look in the "Last Scanned" bouqet" is this where you get the link?

 

[moonbase]

Another option to stream would be to use a DVB device with TransEdit.
You can select to stream from TransEdit, get the network stream address and use that in whatever viewing device is appropriate.

 

[Pabloisred]

This would be similar to using a laptop with vlc but where are you getting the link to drop into vlc? If you scan in a feed where does the channel link live in your webif that you pass onto the apple 4k box. @foxx® above mentioned "If it is an Enigma 2 box, then after scanning, look in the "Last Scanned" bouqet" is this where you get the link?

I hit the channel stream at the top of webif on my iphone and copy and past the URL into the web stream in VLC.

 

[kegnkiwi]

I hit the channel stream at the top of webif on my iphone and copy and past the URL into the web stream in VLC.

Well i can report that i does work and without much effort. I took a 4.2.2. feed as listed on a feeds website and put it into the the qviart dual. Scanned the channel in and then went into the webif. Clicked on the current tab in the web if and onto the channel details. That download a stream file to my pc and then i click on it and it opened in vlc. The file played straight away.

 

[Pabloisred]

Well i can report that i does work and without much effort. I took a 4.2.2. feed as listed on a feeds website and put it into the the qviart dual. Scanned the channel in and then went into the webif. Clicked on the current tab in the web if and onto the channel details. That download a stream file to my pc and then i click on it and it opened in vlc. The file played straight away.

Great work. I believe some of the 4k feeds different ball game and will really test your hardware.

 

[kegnkiwi]

Great work. I believe some of the 4k feeds different ball game and will really test your hardware.

It will be interesting to test the 4k feeds, the qviart is reasonabley new and laptop is an i5 gaming laptop with a nvidia 1650 graphics card.

 

[rpl]

It will be interesting to test the 4k feeds, the qviart is reasonabley new and laptop is an i5 gaming laptop with a nvidia 1650 graphics card.

No AMD or NVIDIA customer class GPU support 4:2:2 HEVC, so you will be CPU limited.
Anyway I read thet Intel Arc GPU have support for decoding HEVC 4:2:2 [8/10/12 Bit], at lest according to documetation with newer drivers. Can someone confirm that they suport valid profile ?

 

[kegnkiwi]

No AMD or NVIDIA customer class GPU support 4:2:2 HEVC, so you will be CPU limited.
Anyway I read thet Intel Arc GPU have support for decoding HEVC 4:2:2 [8/10/12 Bit], at lest according to documetation with newer drivers. Can someone confirm that they suport valid profile ?

Well today was my chance to test to see if i could get any picture on uhd. There is a feed on 23.5e 11471 sr 22000 mpeg 4:2:2 uhdtv/16apsk.
The picture it took is below but to be fair my laptop was struggling to play the picture of 4 x cameras.

 

[giux]

I normally stream 422 HD feeds (I don't have 4k STB) from Octagon SX88 and SX87 to a "normal" laptop, opening in VLC the channel list urls and copying the one I want to SMPlayer (hxxs://www.smplayer.info/) . It works perfectly for these HD, not tested with 4k as said.
The source sat signal needs to be at least 65-70% in level at the Octagon, otherwise I got squared image on SMPlayer.
Playing directly on VLC gives me issues, as well as MPC-HC Player. This SMPlayer seems to be the best one for my experience.