dm800/7025/800:How to stream SDTV & HDTV from my .

How to stream SDTV & HDTV from my DM box to my computer

For the DM7025, DM800 and the DM8000 boxes only

Please note the OLD E2 webif screens are still included in this page

Requirements

A PC or Notebook running XP/Vista/OSX/Linux (Iphone / Windows Mobile 6 etc)
A web browser - Firefox and Google Chrome (for Windows users)is recommended however Internet Explorer (Version 7 up) does work with limited success
You will need to download and install the application called VLC version 0.8.6i on your computer [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Make sure your DM box is connected to your [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Most important
Make sure your PC is connected to your local area network by cable or wifi. Most important

Howto do it

You need to know the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of your DM Box. Most important
Open your web browser to the IP address of your DM box or simply use [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]

In this example below we will use the IP address of 192.168.1.200 and this [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in your DM box will appear.

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Now we have two (2) options for streaming from your DM box back to your PC or other device.

Onboard streaming (open a stream in your web browser) Allows you to watch one channel on the TV and another Channel in the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] a very cool feature
VLC - open a VLC session on your PC

Option 1 - Open a stream in your web browser

Mileage varies here depending on your computer spec

Warning: do not use VLC 0.9.x for this

Use VLC 0.86i

[note this only applies to the old webif - not the new [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] 04/01/09 release]

This will allow you to stream TV from your DM box to your computer. It will even allow you to
pay a different channel than is playing on your TV (for multi tuner users you can even play a channel
on a different transponder ot satellite)

Getting started.
Simply click on the SCREEN icon on the top blue bar as shown below.

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[note this only applies to the old webif - not the new [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] 04/01/09 release]

Once you clicked on the SCREEN icon this page below will be resented to you. DO NOT PANIC as it is
meant to be a blank screen. Before we get into this to far lets look at the options on this screen.

The < button means rewind
The > button means play
The >> button means fast forward
The || button mean pause
The stop button mean stop
The fullscreen button means make the video full screen on your computer
The Vol+ button turns up the volume on your computer
The mute button will mute the sound on your computer
The Vol- button turns down the volume on your computer

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Which brings us to the final option choose service.

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For this streaming tool to work you need to tell it what you want to watch.
So to start with lets select the same TV channel we are watching on the TV.

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NOTE: If you have selected the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] option to be turned on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] the current time will be flashing on the LCD when the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] streaming is active!

Known issues:
Always try where possible to use the firefox browser for this application. (I have not tried safari)

If you try the IE browser make sure you allow the activeX plugin - else it will never try to work
The current release of google chrome does not work as it should

Not all computers will stream HDTV in the manner due to lack of RAM/processor power. If this is the case
with you please see the next option.

Option 2 - Open VLC via a stream.m3u download

Mileage varies here depending on your computer spec

This is a more straight forward way of streaming, and depending on your computer will happily stream
HDTV to your computer.

Select a HDTV service for your DM box to play on your TV from you DM boxes [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
Make sure it is playing on your TV (nothing worse than trying to get something to stream if it does not first work on the TV)
Highlight the TV channel in the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
Click on the SCREEN icon on the right hand side of the highlighted line
Allow the download of the stream.m3u file which should automatically open VLC or the HDTV media player you have set up on your computer
Watch TV

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