Dbox 2 recording\internet problems

[nick95255]

Hi
Hope someone can help me, I've set up my dbox it works ok with my pc i can see my mp3 files and pictures. But when i hit the red button to try and record using winserver the picture goes blank, when i stop recording it returns. Also i can view the recording on the pc but not through the dbox i can see the file created but it will not play, the same goes with my movie files i can see them but they will not play either. And I`m having problems connecting to the internet with the dbox i have a wireless router but the dbox is connected with a network cable. Would realy appreciate any help its driving me mad.

[lincsat]

For the recording you need SPTS mode on and ucode 0014. You should then be able to play your .TS recordings too.

To play movies you need VLC setup on your PC, there is a guide but it's too large to attach to the post, I've pasted the text below, it's lost formatting but hopefully you can follow it. The files referred to I am not able to attach.


A quick and dirty guide to getting VLC 0.8.6 working with the dbox.
Issue 1.
Introduction
A lot of this guide was based around Chi's rough guide to streaming from PC to dbox, without which I'd
have not got the movieplayer working in the first place.
Once I had got VLC 0.7.2 working I found a few problems, things didn't work quite cleanly enough on
certain videos I was getting slight freezing and stuttering that was completely due to 0.7.2. So I changed
to version 0.8.4a and this cured my problem in this respect. However, as Chi found, I found playback
issues as in sound and no video so futher investigation found the problem to be any video that was not
25fps, so then I started to work on getting around the problems and eventually suceeded by using one of
the nightly builds of 0.8.5 and a patch I put together to get things working.
Now VLC 0.8.6 is final I've updated this guide and hopefully corrected all spelling mistakes.
Before starting
The instructions assume the following
1) The dbox is configured and fully operational.
2) The dbox is accessible from the PC that will be streaming the video. Try doing a "ping".
For example if your dbox has the address 192.168.0.100, enter:
ping 192.168.0.100
3) All the steps described assume you are using Windows XP Professional.
4) I have written this around using VLC 0.8.6 final release.
You can download the build from the following link:
VideoLAN - Download from mirror
5) You have downloaded the file vlc_086_dbox_patch_v1.zip that was with this guide.
Preparations
PC
For streaming purposes alone, you do not need to have a specific user for the dbox to function. All
you need is your normal login id and it doesn't have to have a password either.
If you wish to create a specific user then perform the following:
Right mouse click on 'My Computer' > 'Manage' > 'Local Users and Groups'. Expand 'Local Users
and Groups' right click 'Users' > 'New User...' username dbox password dbox untick 'User must
change password at next logon' > 'Create'. User creation is not actually necessary just to stream a
video. This is just there for information really.
Now, share a folder conatining the videos. Example:
C:\Movies shared as Movies
To share a folder, right mouse click on it, 'Properties' > 'Sharing' > 'Share this folder' > 'Permissons'
> 'Add' > 'Locations' if you are using your normal admin account then that's all. If you created the
extra user then you need to do the following:
Select the name of your PC, 'OK' > enter dbox in the object names field, click 'OK' > click 'OK'
again and one more 'OK'.
Now ensure you have uninstalled all previous versions of VLC you have been using on the PC and
install vlc-0.8.5-win32.exe.
Use the default options, but you must select 'delete preferences and cache' this will clear up the
cache from older version of VLC and if not done VLC is highly likely to crash.
Dbox
Grab the remote, switch the dbox on / out of standby and press the dbox button.
'Settings' > 'Movieplayer'
Set the following:
'Streaming Server' to 'on'.
'Streaming IP' to the IP of the PC.
I left the port default of 8080.
Configure the DVD drive letter, default is 'D:' (change accordingly), however you MUST remove
the ':' if you wish this functionality to work at all.
'Directory (VLC)' to C:\Movies (note the captial letters)
'Datarate Video' is default of 1000*
'Resolution' is default of 352x288*
Leave everything else as it's default value.
*now 1000 works without a hitch but I found that 1500 gives a better picture quality, however you
PC needs to be able to handle encoding at this speed. Also ensure your network can transport this
without a problem, it's an experiment but do not go over 1500 as the bursts of data will go over
what a 10M HDX link can cope with and so your picture will break up and go buffering or at worse it
will stop playing and drop back to the player.
*the default is 352x288 and again will work. I use the top one of 704x576, this is for two reasons:
1) The quality issue again is improved but again increasing this increases the work of the PC that
is encoding the movie to stream.
2) If in this mode widescreen films are actually sent to the dbox in the correct aspect ratio and not
resized or at least that is what I have found. To make sure of this you have to set your box up to
the desired resolution by pressing 'dbox' > 'settings' > 'video' > 'format' and hard set to 16:9,
4:3 (PS) or 4:3 (LB). Do not use 'autodetect' as the aspect will be then autocorrected maybe
when you do not want it to be corrected.
Streaming: PC -> Dbox
Open up windows explorer and navigate to where vlc was installed.
By default it is installed here:
C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC
Now we need to delete some stuff so open the following directory and highlight the following:
old
Right mouse click and select 'delete' and 'yes'.
Now to patch VLC 0.8.5, if you don't patch it, it quite simply will not work however I have made the
patch so when it's installed everything will work )
Now open the patch file 'vlc_086_dbox_patch_v1.zip'
Extract this zip file into the following directory ensuring that 'use folder names' is selected.
C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http
Right click on the VLC icon that should be on your desktop if you did the default installation.
Select 'Properties' and 'Shortcut' change the 'Target' to be:
"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" --extraintf=http --sout-transcode-fps 25
Press 'OK'.
Now fire up VLC using this icon if you are wanting to stream to the dbox which is the point of this
guide )
Dbox
Press the 'dbox' button > 'Movieplayer' > 'File via VLC'
At this point, if everything is working correctly, you should see a listing of your video's in your
movies directory. Using the dbox remote, select the file you'd like to play and press the 'OK' button
on the remote.
You should see a dialogue box on your TV with a message about "connecting to the streaming
server". This message shortly disappears and is replaced with a message stating 'Buffering'. This
should take a few seconds (max). Then you get the video playing back on your TV.
Press the 'Red' button on the remote to stop playback.
If the audio and video get slightly out of step (normally when playing a long video or when you jump
forward / backwards) then pressing the 'Green' button on the remote causes the movieplayer to
re-sync attempt to get back in step, it might take a couple of presses to actually lock in.
I hope this guide has helped you. Any questions please post in the forum and I will try and help out.
cdh555