@Buzzkaido,

I found a vlc media player ipkg package for oleg optware shown below? Can you add it to POD's oleg/optware library? I think if we can get it to work, POHD might be able to do universal streaming.


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Package: vlc
Version: 0.9.9a-1
Depends: dbus
Suggests: faad2, ffmpeg, flac, freetype, fribidi, liba52, libdvbpsi, libdvdnav, libdvdread, libid3tag, libmad, libmpcdec, libmpeg2, libogg, libpng, libshout, libupnp, libvorbis, libxml2, ncursesw, speex , avahi , x264
Section: video
Architecture: mipsel
Maintainer: NSLU2 Linux <nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com>
MD5Sum: e73b2c57e724637e0a917d3616cea667
Size: 3483447
Filename: vlc_0.9.9a-1_mipsel.ipk
Source: http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... 9a.tar.bz2
Description: VLC is a cross-platform media player and streaming server.

Sorry, I don't have a lot of time these days...

Could you try it and tell me how it works ?

To install it, simply type "ipkg install vlc" from a telnet terminal.

+1, Kudos Muonic!

I've tried it before. I succesfully installed it. However, I couldn't figure out how to use it. It told me I couldn't run the program as user "root". My Linux skill is limited. When you have free time, maybe you can take a look?

To create a new user :

1. remount root filesystem as read-write :

"mount -o,remount,rw /"

2. add a user :

"adduser username"

Then connect with this user and test.

What do you want to do with VLC ? Because I don't think VLC can take advantage of hardware video decoding on a POHD...

Thanks. Bascially, I just want to be able to receive real-time MMS,RTSP streams for iptv, etc. Currently, POHD can receive only HTTP stream via rss feed.

So, i thought this oleg version of vlc might be able to do the same as its pc version. I don't expect it to be able to directly output video to tv screen, but it MAY be able to stream to a file that we can open under browser, I hope.

I don't think any package can display anything on TV, because we need the Realtek SDK for that, and it's closed source.

To stream MMS or RTSP, I think the best way is to send a lot of mails about that to Realtek (and AC Ryan).

hi, i faced the same prob as muonic whereby i cannot access vlc as root. after ive created a new user and login with it. i could not even access vlc, it says "vlc not found

heres the output:
BusyBox v1.1.3 (2009.09.24-05:32+0000) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

/ $ vlc
-sh: vlc: not found
Permission denied
/ $

im using frater's optware though. does it mean ive to install it again for the new user.
any help? thanks=)

on many forums they've mentioned that streaming can be possible if we're able to execute html channel page

i tried this technique using my dreambox html file but i wasn't able to see it in the POHD


also i tried calling the dreambox stream inside the channel section of youtube feed but it didn't work either

hopefully we can find a solution