Tonight we spent a few more hours on this project. We're now streaming live satellite TV programming via multicast over our network. Unencrypted, and only MPEG 2 for now.
The stream is about 6Mbps. It's going over a wireless backhaul, and into a UBNT AirMax system. It's being received over the AirMax system, but not being decoded properly. Not sure if it's the AirMax, or this laptop that's the issue. Leaning towards the laptop. When on the same network as the streambox the feed looks great, time-shift works perfect. We're using a PIII 933MHz machine with 1GB of RAM. It was "laying around" I will investigate more soon as to why it's not working via the AirMax. I'll also try to get the MPEG 4 codec situated on the encoder. I did find out from Amino that their STB's should work without 3rd party middleware. Basically, they have embedded browsers--point to your HTML server, which has pages to streams. You could fashion up your own guide and program info, etc. This would work especially well if you're not broadcasting networks with requirements, but just OTA. On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Mike Hammett <[email protected]>wrote: > So we're looking at $25k for the hardware to do an MPEG-4 H.264 IPTV system > for up to 100 channels? > > Remaining items needed (or desired): > > 1) Middleware (Minerva) > 2) Licensing (only your past seems to indicate that this can be done) > 3) VoD > 4) Content stream from Avail or Echostar > > Missing anything? > > Costs for the others? > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Jayson Baker" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 12:20 PM > To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WISPA] IPTV -- Anyone doing it? > > > Interestingly enough, I've had a project lying on my desk for a couple > > weeks > > now which requires streaming live content to a large group of people in a > > neighborhood (think of it as a neighborhood association wanting to > > broadcast > > their meetings to their residents). I don't know why I didn't see the > > similarity between this post and that project. > > > > I just spent the last couple hours working on this, and now have a Linux > > server streaming the content out over the wireless network multicast > > without > > any issues. > > > > Taking a deeper look... > > We have ASI-input cards from Linear Systems. They take 4 ASI streams... > > maybe 32 each? I can't remember. > > > > A quick look on eBay found some Moto C-Band receivers that output 32 ASI > > streams for under $1000. > > > > An entire receiving, encoding, streaming headend for under 100 channels > > could be built for probably under $25,000. > > > > I don't know what you're after, but if there is some serious interest in > > putting effort into something like this, we might be on board. > > > > Jayson > > > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Jack Unger <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Blake, > >> > >> In general the IPTV principles being discussed would apply to any > >> broadband wireless system either license-free, licensed, or > >> licensed-lite. > >> > >> jack > >> > >> > >> Blake Covarrubias wrote: > >> > I've read the responses from others who are running IPTV over > wireless. > >> > > >> > My question is when you all are saying wireless, do you mean > unlicensed > >> 2.4ghz or 5.8ghz, or do you mean wireless technology in general? > >> > > >> > My company utilizes 2.5 and 3.65ghz, which are the same frequencies > >> > we'd > >> be looking to use to deploy IPTV. > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Blake Covarrubias > >> > > >> > On Nov 15, 2009, at 4:03 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> >> Every time this comes up, I say the same thing. 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