Media center and IPTV

[TheTurner]

I recently took IPTV as well from my Internet Service Provider where VDSL modem splits internet traffic in tcp/ip etc traffic and Multicast UDP. Out of these 1 port especially configured for TV which receive multicast UDP mpeg-ts stream accordingly on my channel request. This stream then go to STB Amino110 via UTP cable and STB converts this stream into analog signal for TV. The question I want to ask is whether any software or program available out there which can convert NIC in fake TV tuner?

[armonis]

Hi Ziggy,

According to Microsoft, even what you did with WMP is not supposed to happen... There is a project by some Dutch people that is a plugin to WMC and allow VLC integration and control. Check it out here: http://wiki.videolan.org/Use_in_Media_Center

Another way is to use VLC to transcode on the fly the streams to Windows Media streams and play them via Media Center but it's not a solution. Can you please tell me the process used to enable WMP to play Unicast/Multicast streams?

Thank you.

[TheTurner]

Thank you very much for your help buddy. I just installed HDTV pump and Elecard plugin on my system. Then opened windows media player > File > open url and enter the following path:

elecard://mcast_group:port[[:s=server_address][:i=interface]
[:t=payload_type]]/type
where:
mcast_group – multicast IP address (e.g. 234.5.5.5).
port “unsigned integer value from 1 to 65535.
server_address “ data source server IP or DNS name.
interface “ local interface IP.
payload_type “ stream payload type (m2p, m2t, m1s).
type “ type of stream transport (udp or rtp).

For example:
elecard://234.5.5.5:10201:s=192.168.57.14:i=192.168.57.23:t=m2p/udp
or
elecard://234.5.5.5:10201/udp

Doing this worked fine but it is not working with Windows Media Center yet. Any help?

[jklanka]

Hi zigggy55,

You are saying that you can play a UDP stream (udp://@239.1.1.115:5000) with some tweaks and extra codecs.

Please can you help me how I can do this. I am trying to play a multicast stream from VLC to WMP.

Appreciate if any clue given

Thanks