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[joecool42069]

I just installed the PVR-250, replacing my old Pinnicale PCTV. The PVR is soooooooo much better. Hardware encoding ROCKS! Now if it was only possible to stream live tv over the network that would be great, then i could get rid the PCTV completly.

Anyone at snapstream know if they plan on implementing streaming of Live TV for the PVR-250? I like to watch the packer games sunday when i'm at work without having to change video source from my PVR to PCTV and redo the quality settings.

Just downloaded the new 3.4, looking good. Good job on the mouse implimentation. Keep up the good work guys.

[UnionMan]

I have a new PVR-250 also and can't get the live streaming tv to work. If I understand your post, this is a know issue? I thought it wasn't working because I didn't have my network configured right.

Thanks,
UnionMan

[bradpvr]

You can not stream with a PVR250 because of the MPEG format..

http://kb.snapstream.com/Kb.aspx?kbid=1128

[imf4]

This is not an issue but by design. It is because the PVR-250 is a hardware encoder and encodes directly to mpeg 2. I don't know the exact technical reasons but you have to have a software card to do it(like your PCTV)

I don't think they have mentioned any plans to make the TV streaming on hardware cards work.

[archie]

you have to have a software encoder to stream with pvs (or transcode your mpegs to wmv). there are other programs that can stream mpeg. there are work arounds to "stream" mpeg with pvs. try searching for videolan. it also can be done by mapping the hard drive.

this isn't "true" streaming to some, but semantics aside, there are others who have viewed pvs recorded files on another machine over the home network.

i think we will have multiple tuners before we have streaming of mpeg native to pvs. so hold on to your software encoding cards for now.

archie

[UnionMan]

Thanks guys! Brad you link kinda confuses me. It states "Can't stream recorded files, but Live TV can be streamed".

"Live TV can be streamed even though MPEG-2 is set as the recording file format on the server machine is because when Beyond TV 3 streams Live TV, it creates a Windows Media format stream, and that is what is being streamed to remote Live TV clients." So does this mean I may be able to watch live tv from my other networked PC's? When I goto webadmin from another computer I don't have an option to watch live tv from the other.

I am still using 3.2, should I upgrade?

Thanks again!

[bradpvr]

My bad...I didn't really find the article I meant to find...

[jkoon]

I think this is the article brad meant to post

http://kb.snapstream.com/Kb.aspx?kbid=1139 (note: the error message they talk about is no longer displayed, rather the live tv link is disabled if you have a hardware card.)


Just to (hopefully) clear things up a bit, as far as Beyond TV is concerned you can only view live tv on your networked pc’s if you are using a non-hardware encoding card. And you cannot stream mpeg recordings (which is the only thing that the hardware cards can create). You can however ShowSqueeze the mpeg files into wmv files which can be streamed over the network using BTV.

Now, there are several workarounds for these limitations but they involve some advanced knowledge, outside software, or using BTV in a manner that it was not designed for.

As for upgrading, I would suggest so, there have been several features added since 3.2 (but of course if you happy with 3.2 and subscribe to the if its not broke don’t fix it methodology then that’s cool too).