Streaming video..

[Mark Wieder]

On 01/13/2018 12:45 PM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote:
> Quick question.. I'm attempting to write a program to work with my
> hdhomerun (networked tv streamer) and think i'm on track.. However, i'm not
> sure if its possible to tell the player to open a udp connection on port
> 5000 and wait for the stream to come in. (apparently, I need to have it
> ready to receive before I send the command to the hdhr)  Will the player do
> this?  If not I'll probably end up using vnc as my player, but it would
> sure be nice to have an all LC solution.  (maybe I can use the browser
> widget.. hmmm.  )

I pipe my hdhomerun through a raspberry pi running osmc as my dvr. The 
hdhomerun box itself has open-source drivers, if that helps you out.

https://www.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/hdhomerun_development.pdf
https://github.com/mharsch/node-hdhomerun
https://github.com/kodi-pvr/pvr.hdhomerun

If I connect to the pi over the osmc web interface I can use a RESTful 
connection over vlc to view live or saved videos. The format is

http://192.168.0.99/stream/channel/<id1>?ticket=<id2>

I don't know what you're trying to accomplish, but the easiest (and fun) 
thing might be to put a pi on the network, use the hdhomerun driver for 
osmc, and let it do the heavy lifting for you.

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  Mark Wieder
  ahsoftware at gmail.com