Hello all,
I did a search before posting about this and nothing which surprised me. There is a project going on that allows you to use your Infinitv card with XBMC. It is called remoteCeton.
It does more such as let you watch live TV on your iPhone/Android device.
I have been able to sucessfully configure it with the Pi and Raspbmc. The only problem is that although the live TV is streaming, there is no picture, you can hear it though.
Maybe someone with a better knowledge of Linux and programming (for log reviewing purposes) is interested and can fully get it to work. Anyone interested?
As Sam said, most digital TV comes in the format MPEG2, which the the RPi foundation has no licence for, so unlike h.264 it cannot be decoded by the GPU and has to be one by the CPU only, which hasn't enough horsepower to do this !
Thanks for that info. I did not know this but it did allow me try something else that I forgot about, remoteCeton has 2 options: Direct Streaming or Transcoding. RemoteCeton transcodes usign .h264 which the raspberry pi does decode as stated above. I went ahead and tried transcoding and viola, it worked! The only issue I see now is that the audio and video are out of sync, especially when it comes to the HD channels. I tried all the 1080p settings remoteCeton offers but it was still out of sync at times.
My "host" computer is a core i7 with 12 GB RAM so I don't believe this can be the issue. I am using VLC 2.0.0 and I don't know if that is the issue but I can't find any settings to change. I am just a dreamer but this could actually work. Not to mention, it read somewhere in here that they might sell a codec pack in the near future that will allow the GPU to decode MPEG2. I just want to get rid of Windows Media Center once and for all
(06-23-2012 05:02 AM)acostanavy Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks for that info. I did not know this but it did allow me try something else that I forgot about, remoteCeton has 2 options: Direct Streaming or Transcoding. RemoteCeton transcodes usign .h264 which the raspberry pi does decode as stated above. I went ahead and tried transcoding and viola, it worked! The only issue I see now is that the audio and video are out of sync, especially when it comes to the HD channels. I tried all the 1080p settings remoteCeton offers but it was still out of sync at times.
My "host" computer is a core i7 with 12 GB RAM so I don't believe this can be the issue. I am using VLC 2.0.0 and I don't know if that is the issue but I can't find any settings to change. I am just a dreamer but this could actually work. Not to mention, it read somewhere in here that they might sell a codec pack in the near future that will allow the GPU to decode MPEG2. I just want to get rid of Windows Media Center once and for all
Seems like you got remoteCeton working on your raspberry pi. I was hoping you could help. I added the script into /home/pi/xbmc/addons folder, but it does not seem to show up under "programs" in raspbmc. I can configure the settings for it, but I have no idea where I can access it. Any ideas?
FYI, i have the same issues as you with HD channels on my Apple TV. I have similar computer specs as well. Was never able to get an answer as to why it happens on the remoteCeton forum.