Windows+MythTV ;)

[Áedán]

After banging my head against problems with Media Player having lots of difficulties decoding an MPEG2 transport stream, I have a halfway solution...

Someone's produced some DirectShow filters for MythTV. Couple that with a decent MPEG2 decoder, and it's possible to stream from MythTV to a Windows machine. However, the stream is 16:9, but Windows Media player seems to treat it as a 4:3 ratio image. I've tried a couple of other players, and they play it as 16:9, but have difficulty playing more than about 10 seconds worth.

To show it's possible here's the output from MythTV's backend:

2004-09-23 22:17:47 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-09-23 22:17:47 adding: aidan as a client (events: 0)
2004-09-23 22:17:47 adding: aidan as a remote ringbuffer
2004-09-23 22:17:47 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2004-09-23 22:17:47 DVB#0 Recorder: Card opened successfully.
Audiostream: Layer: 2 BRate: 256 kb/s Freq: 48.0 kHz
Videostream: ASPECT: 16:9 Size = 720x576 FRate: 25 fps BRate: 6.50 Mbit/s

Attached is an image too, stretched to the correct proportions. The system works by directly receiving the digital TV from the air, running error correction on it, and then streaming that signal across to my Windows PC. The signal I'm watching really does need 6.5Mbit/sec worth of bandwidth, and seems a bit too much for my wireless network.