Hi All,
I have a ET9x00 twin-tuner enigma2 box and would like the ability to stream from it over the internet to my parent's home in another city.
This is what I have right now :
ET9x00 connected on Fibre broadband with a 10Mbps upload speed, 45Mbps download (the device receiving the streaming content has a 15Mbps download speed)
Port forwarding from router to E2 box
Opened port 80/8001 for OpenWebif
Streaming on the internet suffers severe glitching and are unwatchable (even on the SD channel). It works well on LAN.
So, I started reading the forums and gathered the following info :
1. To be able to stream on the internet, the a/v stream from the E2 box needs to be transcoded at a lower bit rate.
2. To do this transcoding I would need a ...
PC running a VLC Server that does the transcoding
OR
A box like Vu+ Solo2 or Duo2 that can do transcoding on the fly
OR
A box like Slingbox, ROKU etc that can placeshift/spaceshift i.e. take the output of the Enigma2 box and transcode it and send it over the internet
The PC option above doesn't sound very appealing to me (I'd rather have a standalone tiny box doing the transcoding). So I'm looking at the other two options.
Can you please share your expert opinions and inputs on the following :
1 . From what I understand, transcoding is a software process that can be run on any computing device with the right resources and transcoding applications. What are the minimum hardware requirements? Can I run a transcoding plugin on my ET9x00 or would it kill the 400Mhz CPU? If yes, which plugin? If no, can I run it on an Android TV dongle that has a dual-core or quad-core CPU with 1GB RAM? If yes, what app? If no, why not?
2. My ET9x00 box has only one HDMI out. I can either feed it in the TV or in the external transcoding+streaming box (slingbox or android tv box). How do I set up things so that I have the local TV using one tuner and the remote stream using the other?
3. What other hardware/software alternatives (to Slingbox or otherwise) exist that can do placeshifting/spaceshifting using Enigma2 twin-tuner boxes.
Any inputs welcome. If I get it up and running I'll post a detailed thread on internet streaming using enigma2 boxes (the last thread on this topic seems to be a couple of years old).