bytepoet 0 Posted June 13, 2018 Posted June 13, 2018 i have what normally would equate to a headend. I have a dish that receives signal and it goes to 10 STBs. I have each one tuned to a specific channel on the STB, then i combine the signal onto one coax. I distribute the cableTV locally and it looks decent. I want to capture the output of each STB RCA and make it stream over my robust gigabit network instead. I've grabbed a USB device that lets me view the a/v output in vlc and it works great! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004FRGGBG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 How can i get this device that works in VLC as Dshow:// to show up as a capture device in emby (or any of its plugins?)
kanipek 230 Posted June 13, 2018 Posted June 13, 2018 (edited) Never tried it, but you may be able to stream the direct show to a file with VLC and the create your own M3U file pointing to those streamed files. Add an M3U tuner to Emby using that self created M3U file - not sure what you would do about a guide data solution though...not to mention probable disk space requirements, Might be possible to set a max file size and then overwrite. FFMPEG might also work to do the same. Interesting problem - won't be an easy solve. Edited June 13, 2018 by kanipek
maegibbons 1287 Posted June 17, 2018 Posted June 17, 2018 Hi Have you checked out: https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo/Stream_from_Encoding_Cards_and_Other_Capture_Devices/ Krs Mark
bytepoet 0 Posted August 15, 2018 Author Posted August 15, 2018 i did see that, thanks Mark. as per the original message, i've been able to get it working in VLC, even within the M3U. Getting emby to recognize it was a source was difficult but i managed it, but.... i remained unsatisfied with the RCA quality and found a 4 x source HDMI to IPTV that didnt care about HDCP for 499.99 and just delivered x265 to the emby server. solved for science sake, yet not chosen for final implementation.
Carlo 4560 Posted August 22, 2018 Posted August 22, 2018 I used to do something similar 10 years ago but have moved on since. Curious, what Dish/Service are you using? Do you rent or own the STBs? How do you currently record shows/movies?
Kianouch 1 Posted February 5, 2020 Posted February 5, 2020 (edited) Sorry, please delete this post Edited February 5, 2020 by Kianouch
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