GBPVR Web Streaming

[sgilani]

Hey all,

I've coded up something I hope you guys will like and use..

a streaming solution; it's an add-on to the web interface. after you login, you can open the streaming page. You will need to have VLC installed on the server and the client. through the web page, you choose the recording you want and choose the desired bandwidth quality (150k, 500k, etc). Based on what you specify, your recording will be transcoded on-the-fly and streamed to you (using mpeg4 for video and mp4/aac for the audio). Everything is done on the web; it will spawn a player window with an embedded VLC client with play/pause/seek controls, and you're ready to go. the seek feature is a bit experimental, but I think I'll keep it in.

from the server side, you would need to open up a port on your firewall/NAT router to allow for the streaming. I've tested this a few times when I was away from home and it worked well.

stay tuned, i'm finishing it up and will post it soon. (btw to sub in case you read this, i'd love to share this with you so that GBPVR can incorporate this in the future)

[psycik]

Nice....I had occasion to do something like this recently, my brother in law doesn't get pay sport and wanted to watch the Australian Tennis, so I whipped up a VLC batch file to do exactly that and he was able to get the video.

Was thinking about adding it into the web admin as a button, nice someone else thought of it as well.

[dazzyb2k3]

This sounds really good. I'm currently using ORB for similar functionality (which works pretty well) but would be great to have a more integrated solution.

Looking forward to to testing it

[Pioneer4x4]

Sounds very nice! I also am looking forward to it.

[A_Brass]

This sounds really good. I'm currently using ORB for similar functionality (which works pretty well) but would be great to have a more integrated solution.

Looking forward to to testing it

Diddo, using Orb, love it, but I woul love a intergrated solution better.

I too, look forward to giving it a try.

[TobyO]

Could this web interface then stream to an ipac or PSP? I currently stream music to the ipac no problem, but the video is to large for the IPAQ to play it smoothly. I use the gbpvr webadmin stream then use TCPMP with ffmpeg plugin on my ipaq to play the stream

TobyO

[haxorboy]

Oh a remote control/streaming solution for a PSP...now that made me happy to just think about.

[Pioneer4x4]

stay tuned, i'm finishing it up and will post it soon.

Any word? I have been using orb, but I really don't trust it.

[sgilani]

Any word? I have been using orb, but I really don't trust it.

I just uploaded a very early alpha release in the Community Announcements... link here

[UncleJohnsBand]

Bug found.....reported in Communuty Thread....here is same info below:

Same here.....below is the message from the server. This is proabably what it is....I don't have this directory on my machine: d:\my documents\my music\vlc\stream.aspx.cs:86

Server Error in '/gbpvr' Application.

Length cannot be less than zero. Parameter name: length

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Length cannot be less than zero. Parameter name: length

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.
Stack Trace:

[ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Length cannot be less than zero.
Parameter name: length]
System.String.Substring(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length) +172
webStreamer.WebForm1.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in d:\my documents\my music\vlc\stream.aspx.cs:86
System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +55
System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +27
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain() +750