Re: [Mvpmc-users] Problems streaming PVR-500 to MVPMC

2010-02-11 Thread Tom Metro
Roger Heflin wrote: > Devices don't export across nfs, they are a way for you to reference a > "device" in the kernel and don't work across 2 separate machines. That makes sense. Though depending on what layer network redirection occurs at, I'd expect the NFS layer to see the device as a file, w

Re: [Mvpmc-users] Problems streaming PVR-500 to MVPMC

2010-02-11 Thread Tom Metro
dumbiggie wrote: > This WORKS, sort of. VLM control connection made, VLC remapping, and > some media: > > [server side] /mediamvp/pvr500.AVI -> /dev/video1 > > [MVP side] /mediamvp/pvr500.AVI > > I got plenty of lovely stereo sound out of my MVP, but a blank > screen. Checking /var/log/vlc, I

Re: [Mvpmc-users] Problems streaming PVR-500 to MVPMC

2010-02-11 Thread dumbiggie
  OK folks, I had some success tonight, but am not quite there. In all cases, I shared server /mediamvp/ via SMB/CIFS mount. Note that I also had to add world R/W permissions on /dev/video1, otherwise VLC puked errors in /var/log/vlc.   Long story short, this DOES NOT work. No VLM connection

Re: [Mvpmc-users] Problems streaming PVR-500 to MVPMC

2010-02-11 Thread Roger Heflin
Tom Metro wrote: > dumbiggie wrote: >> I also plan to try setting up symbolic links on the server side to >> see if VLC will do the right thing and stream to MVPMC: >> >> /mediamvp/pvr500.avi -> /dev/video1 > > Given that /dev/video1 is MPEG2 and the MVP will play that natively, any > mechanism y

Re: [Mvpmc-users] Problems streaming PVR-500 to MVPMC

2010-02-11 Thread MVallevand
I've used vlm file do do things like play from cameras, PVR 150's ATI cards and DVD drives. I found my DVD vlm new mvpmc broadcast enabled setup mvpmc input "dvdsimple:///dev/scd0" setup mvpmc output #transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vb=4096,scale=1,acodec=mpga,ab=192,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=ht

Re: [Mvpmc-users] Problems streaming PVR-500 to MVPMC

2010-02-11 Thread dumbiggie
--- On Thu, 2/11/10, Tom Metro wrote: > > /mediamvp/pvr500.avi -> /dev/video1 > Given that /dev/video1 is MPEG2 and the MVP will play that > natively, any mechanism you can use to make it directly > accessible could prove more efficient than involving VLC. Removing layers from the solution wo

Re: [Mvpmc-users] Problems streaming PVR-500 to MVPMC

2010-02-11 Thread Tom Metro
dumbiggie wrote: > I also plan to try setting up symbolic links on the server side to > see if VLC will do the right thing and stream to MVPMC: > > /mediamvp/pvr500.avi -> /dev/video1 Given that /dev/video1 is MPEG2 and the MVP will play that natively, any mechanism you can use to make it direct

Re: [Mvpmc-users] Problems streaming PVR-500 to MVPMC

2010-02-11 Thread dumbiggie
--- On Wed, 2/10/10, MVallevand wrote: > You should be able to create a file > with a .vlm extension which will > launch a VLC telnet script to stream your device Thanks for the tip, Martin! I'll Google around for guidance on driving the VLM interface, I really don't know anything about it