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Testing with VLC or MPlayer
If you have troubles getting streaming to work, then it might be helpfull to first try
Both are media players which can play live tv over RTSP.
Using SetupTV to start timeshifting manually
First install vlc and/or mplayer
next start SetupTV and goto the Manual Control page:
Next select a channel and press the 'Start Times' button.
Now if you look in the streaming server.log which is located in
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MediaPortal TV Server\log
you'll see the following:
24-10-2006 09:44:13 Setup stream server for ip:192.168.1.58 24-10-2006 09:44:39 Stream server: add timeshift mpeg-2 transport stream stream1 filename:C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\live1.ts.tsbuffer 24-10-2006 09:44:39 Stream server: url for stream is rtsp://192.168.1.58/stream1
Opening a stream in VLC
Start VLC, choose open file and fill in the rtsp adress as mentioned in the streaming server.log
Press ok and VLC should start playing the stream
Opening a stream in mplayer
open a command prompt
cd to the mplayer folder
type in:
> mplayer //192.168.1.58/stream1.0
where you replace the rtsp://xxxx stream with the one mentioned in the log file
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