It's work fine with Dreambox for me 100% I don't know for IP-Box but you try. Regards
Transcoding Dreambox Video Streams through a VLC server
This document provides the necessary steps to stream video from your Dreambox
satellite receiver to your PC in order to transcode it and view it on another PC
connected through the internet.
Prerequisites:
You will need:
a) A Dreambox.
b) A PC.
c) VLC installed on your system.
d) Know how to get the Enigma2 web interface running in your browser.
e) To know how to setup your router to handle port forwarding (if you have a router).
f) Make sure that your firewall does not block the VLC server port that you will
select. For example we used port 24567 in step8 of this guide.
g) To have a static ip address or have a dynamic dns account setup. DynDNS.org is a
good place to get a free dns account.
I hope the pictures don’t need explanation. I will modify this guide and make it more
“wordy” when I get some free time
Any feedback through the “Satellite Haven” forum will be appreciated
Step 1
Left click the monitor icon next to the channel you would like to transcode. Click on
“Save link as”.
Step 2
Save your file on the desktop or anywhere where you can easily find it. In this case
we saved it as “stream.m3u”.
Step 3
Open the “stream.m3u” file in wordpad, notepad or any other text reader.
In the file, you will find an “http” line. Copy that line so that you can paste it in VLC
later on. This line opens the stream so that you can watch the Dreambox video on
your PC through the LAN (no need to transcode).
To make sure that you can stream video through Dreambox to your pc, open the
“stream.m3u” file through windows media player or VLC. It is essential that this step
is working
Step 5
Now it is time to setup our transcoding server. In VLC select “Open Network
Stream”.
Step 6
In the circled area, paste the line that you have copied in step 4.
You can replace “MyDynDnsAddress.org with your static ip address if you have one.
I.e.
http://77.66.55.44.33:8001/......
Step 7
Click on “Stream/Save” and the on “Settings
Step 8
Make sure that you modify the circled areas as shown in step 8.
You have to specify an address which is your PC’s local ip address (not the router’s
static ip or DNS). Do not forget to set port forwarding on your router so that traffic
can reach your PC at the selected port (ie 24567).
If you do not have a router then your local ip address should be replaced by your
static ip or dyndns address.
ASF and WAV are my preferred encapsulated methods as they seem to work reliably.
Set the bitrate, the channels and scale to something low like in the picture above. The
video quality is going to be bad, but at least you can verify if your transcoding is
working.
The above listed settings should work fine if your upload speed is about 500Kbits/s.
In theory they should work fine if your upload speed can guarantee 288Kbits/s.
If you can transcode with the provided settings then increase the bit-rate and other
settings until the video starts breaking up. Finally reduce the bitrate until the video is
played without break ups. You have now reached the optimal quality/stability point
Step 9
On accepting the modified settings, you should see a local view of the transcoded
video
Step 10
Finally to watch the video stream and to verify that it works, copy-paste the
“mms://MyDynDnsAddress.org:24567/” line in your browser.
This should open a “Launch Application” dialog box/window. Select windows media
player (or any other player that will work for you) and click ok.
This should open your media player and start buffering the video stream.
You should start seeing the transcoded video in less than 30 seconds. It usually takes
less than 10 seconds.
Enjoy!