Any way to stream video to WMP over the internet?

[mmatheny]

Seems like just recoding the page to allow the file to be streamed might work, or maybe it's already there, I just don't know how to access it.

[psycik]

It is already part of Enhanced Web Admin as of about version 40?? Prob less. Required VLC (http://www.videolan.org) to be installed. The config for EWA needs to know where VLC is installed as well.

[mmatheny]

And I just install EWA over the current web content?

[replaytv]

you can use WMP with http://www.orb.com . Streaming show over internet is all depends on your upload speed of ISP.

Dan L.

[fuzzweed]

And I just install EWA over the current web content?

If you've got 98.13 installed then the EWA should already be upto date with this feature (although the EWA is regularly updated, its included with GBPVR releases rather than being a strict extra plugin).
Go to EWA config and there's an option to stream to WMP

[mmatheny]

OK, on the config screen I have selected Stream Player as WMP and Open Stream in External Player, and set Stream Buffer to 1000ms (10 seconds) and when I go to my Recordings and select Play, I never see it buffereing like it would in a true streaming environment. It just starts playing and is very jerky and segmented.

Using Orb, I get very good streaming playback and Live TV.

[fuzzweed]

1000ms is 1 second . Also check the bitrate. I've got 400kb upstream, but I can only reliably send video at 128kb - 256kb is very jerky.
Actually I've never really got WMP to work reliably with ANY streaming - try VLC on your client machine too for playback, it really is a bomb proof piece of software.
Finally, if orb works for you then maybe stick with it. I've not seen/used it myself so I cant say if there's anything your missing (or maybe it works even better than vlc???).

[mmatheny]

I meant 10,000!! Ok, I'll try VLC.

[mmatheny]

OK, installed VLC on GBPVR machine, told it to stream to WMP, logged into EWA, picked a video to stream, hit stream, got following error:
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Server Error in '/gbpvr' Application.
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Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".


<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="Off"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>


Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.


<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>

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Any ideas?

[UncleJohnsBand]

OK, installed VLC on GBPVR machine, told it to stream to WMP, logged into EWA, picked a video to stream, hit stream, got following error:
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Server Error in '/gbpvr' Application.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".


<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="Off"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>


Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.


<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>

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Any ideas?

This is the standard message you get when EWA has an error you are on any machine other thatn the GBPVR host machine.....log onto the GBPVR PC and try to stream the same file.....you should see the details for the error.