Notices

Does the N900 built-in player support mpeg2? Tried streaming mpeg2 transport stream recoding from my Dreambox and the player informed me that format is not supported.

We can help you if you tell us the mimetype of the stream. But my educated guess is to install the libmpeg2-4 library (try gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg too), install tracker-distutils and try the following:

This change is harmless, if it causes trouble you can remove it:

Of course you have to do this using the root shell.

in fact it is video/mpegts you want not video/mp2t with the tracker-register-mimetype

you would need to install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg to get the mpeg2 decoder.

however because there is no dsp accelerated mpeg2 i doubt SD recordings from your dreambox will play well enough. some tricks with not decoding all macroblocks etc can be done to optimise it.

Hello, looking for a solution to watch dreambox tv on the N900.
you have found a solution?

I use KMPlayer which works in combination with DVBViewer + Recording Service which is similar to DreamBox' streaming

thanks
But that does not work
The connection breaks off after a short time and the sound is not syncron?

user@N900:~/MyDocs$ mplayer http://192.168.178.2:31339/0,0061,01ff,0200,0203
MPlayer SVN-r30099-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

Playing http://192.168.178.2:31339/0,0061,01ff,0200,0203.
Connecting to server 192.168.178.2[192.168.178.2]: 31339...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes)
TS file format detected.
VIDEO MPEG2(pid=511) AUDIO MPA(pid=512) NO SUBS (yet)! PROGRAM N. 17501
Stream not seekable!
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x576 (aspect 3) 25.000 fps 15000.0 kbps (1875.0 kbyte/s)
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Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Unsupported PixelFormat -1
Selected video codec: [ffmpeg2] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-2)
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Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
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[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 720x576 => 1024x576 Planar YV12
[AO_ALSA] Write error: Broken pipe-0.020 10/ 10 ??% ??% ??,?% 8 0 17%
[AO_ALSA] Trying to reset soundcard.
nop_streaming_read error : Connection reset by peer% ??% ??,?% 9 0 1%
TS_PARSE: COULDN'T SYNC
[AO_ALSA] Write error: Broken pipe
[AO_ALSA] Trying to reset soundcard.
A:7136.1 V:7135.5 A-V: 0.664 ct: -0.016 13/ 13 ??% ??% ??,?% 9 0 0%
Broken frame at 0x9480
A:7136.1 V:7136.1 A-V: 0.039 ct: 0.051 29/ 29 92% 28% 164.5% 9 0 0%

Exiting... (End of file)

Hi, I have Dreambox 800 HD PVR transcode with computer and watch any chanel i want on my beautiful N900 :-).
The combination of Dremabox, VLC streamer, VNC viewer and KMPlayer and 550kb per sec. is enough to watch TV on 3G

Thank you for the tip.
But I'm looking for a solution without a PC
Thanks

have you got extra decoders support installed from the application manager?