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lavanderson

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Registered: 2009-11-14

Posts: 3

dvbstream - localhost only access to stream [SOLVED]

I'm trying to use dvbstreamer to stream the output of a pchdtv card over my local network.  I can start dvbstreamer without error and can connect to and view the resulting stream from the local computer to confirm it is working.  However I cannot access it from a remote computer. I expect I am overlooking something obvious - can anyone offer any advice at all?

# dvbstreamer -o udp://192.168.1.31:3434
DVBStreamer>select 12-1
00cf.039f.0003 : "12-1"
DVBStreamer>stats
PSI/SI Processor Statistics
---------------------------
    PAT             : 389
    PMT             : 390
    PSIP            : 492

Service Filter Statistics
-------------------------
    <Primary>       : 223512

Other Filter Statistics
------------------------
    ATSC to EPG     : 1163 (Plugin)
    PSI/SI Capture  : 0 (Plugin)
    Traffic Capture : 401306 (Plugin)

Total packets processed: 401644
Approximate TS bitrate : 18.543Mbs
DVBStreamer>stats
PSI/SI Processor Statistics
---------------------------
    PAT             : 440
    PMT             : 442
    PSIP            : 556

Service Filter Statistics
-------------------------
    <Primary>       : 254762

Other Filter Statistics
------------------------
    ATSC to EPG     : 1293 (Plugin)
    PSI/SI Capture  : 0 (Plugin)
    Traffic Capture : 454298 (Plugin)

Total packets processed: 454636
Approximate TS bitrate : 18.5616Mbs
DVBStreamer>

at this point in a seperate shell on the same computer I am able to view the stream with

mplayer -vo caca udp://:3434

however,

# nmap -sU localhost -p 3434

Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-11-23 12:03 CST
Interesting ports on localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1):
PORT     STATE  SERVICE
3434/udp closed unknown

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.09 seconds

and attempting to access the socket from my desktop computer reports the same problem

: mplayer udp://192.168.1.31:3434
MPlayer SVN-r29776-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
141 audio & 306 video codecs
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing udp://192.168.1.31:3434.
STREAM_UDP, URL: udp://192.168.1.31:3434
Failed to connect to server
udp_streaming_start failed
No stream found to handle url udp://192.168.1.31:3434


Exiting... (End of file)

Any help/advice at all is greatly appreciated!

Last edited by lavanderson (2009-11-28 15:03:18)

lavanderson

Member

Registered: 2009-11-14

Posts: 3

Re: dvbstream - localhost only access to stream [SOLVED]

I've figured it out. It turns out I misunderstood how this works in general and needed to specify a client ip address when starting dvbstreamer.