Hey all,
I tried XBMC on my iMac about a week ago and am impressed with it, looks like a proper HTPC program, finally ...
The program played pretty much everything I threw at it, but I'm having problems getting an UDP stream from the internet to play.
Here's my setup:
An external server (VLC on Windows) is sending a video stream (muxed as transport stream, PAL, MPEG2 for video, MP2 for audio) to my public address via UDP on port 6666.
Since my iMac is behind a router (Linksys), I have this port (6666) forwarded to my local IP (192.168.1.106).
At this point, if I use VLC to open a network stream (unicast, just input port 6666 or multicast and input my IP - 192.168.1.106 and port - 6666), the video plays normally but won't do so using XBMC.
I searched the forums and saw that I needed to create an STRM file and put it somewhere where XBMC can access. I did so, but still no success. As a matter of fact, I tried several different files but to no avail.
Here are the files that I tried with ... http://pastebin.com/JkpiRgYW
Needless to say, none of them worked. Here's the full log of when I tried opening one by one, one after the other .... http://pastebin.com/UB43nfxD
I tried capturing the stream with VLC and re-streaming it via HTTP to 127.0.0.1:12345, which worked, but crashed VLC when I "left" the stream in XBMC. Anyhow, I'd prefer if VLC wasn't necessary and I could capture UDP traffic directly.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
I tried XBMC on my iMac about a week ago and am impressed with it, looks like a proper HTPC program, finally ...
The program played pretty much everything I threw at it, but I'm having problems getting an UDP stream from the internet to play.
Here's my setup:
An external server (VLC on Windows) is sending a video stream (muxed as transport stream, PAL, MPEG2 for video, MP2 for audio) to my public address via UDP on port 6666.
Since my iMac is behind a router (Linksys), I have this port (6666) forwarded to my local IP (192.168.1.106).
At this point, if I use VLC to open a network stream (unicast, just input port 6666 or multicast and input my IP - 192.168.1.106 and port - 6666), the video plays normally but won't do so using XBMC.
I searched the forums and saw that I needed to create an STRM file and put it somewhere where XBMC can access. I did so, but still no success. As a matter of fact, I tried several different files but to no avail.
Here are the files that I tried with ... http://pastebin.com/JkpiRgYW
Needless to say, none of them worked. Here's the full log of when I tried opening one by one, one after the other .... http://pastebin.com/UB43nfxD
I tried capturing the stream with VLC and re-streaming it via HTTP to 127.0.0.1:12345, which worked, but crashed VLC when I "left" the stream in XBMC. Anyhow, I'd prefer if VLC wasn't necessary and I could capture UDP traffic directly.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
