[chris_digital]

I started looking at this thread created by Pt-1 from another site and thought it may be interesting to carry this on here and get more interest in it (other site shut for now).
It allows any website video to be browsed and viewed (in a way) from the dBox, Youtube and Apple video trailers seem to work best at the moment.

Follow the guide below and when installed the apache server uses scripts written in php to decode the websites and show the info on the dbox, then the apache server interface picks up the code and opens it in VLC. VLC then turns it into Mpeg and sends it to your TV via the dbox. (or, in short, pick and watch YouTube and other videos or on-demand services on your tv without having to sit at your PC)

Original post thanks to Pt-1

Let's get this rollin then ... Download the latest (06.04.2008) Version from: http://download.berlios.de/onlinestr...treamsV0.3.exe After downloading (12mb) install into C: and you should have a xampplite directory in C:\ Then make sure you have got the latest VLC Version 0.8.6f from here: www.videolan.org Install if not already installed Then click on Start, then on Run and type CMD and hit enter. after this type cd C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC and hit enter then vlc.exe -I ntservice --ntservice-install --ntservice-options "--sout-transcode-fps 25.0000" --ntservice-extraintf "http" and hit enter Right click on "My Computer" > Manage > Services and Applications > Services and start the VLC service Above will always load VLC On Startup of the PC (needed to watch streaming video via dbox). To test above type http:\\127.0.0.1:8080 and the VLC Control should show up Reboot the PC after this after you set everything and rebooted the PC you will need to start the Apache Server via: Click on Start Click on Run type C:\xampplite\apache_start.bat and hit enter (black dos screen will appear, only close this when you have finished viewing) Of course you can browse to it in Explorer or even add a shortcut to the start up menu to have it run all the Time when the PC is restarted. You will need to start the Server before you are able to Browse the Content via the VLC Option !

You will need to set your dbox up to view video via VLC on port 8083 (not 8080 as standard). How to do that is covered elsewhere please search.

Go to Movieplayer > File via VLC > A list of website will appear (mostly German) > Press Right Arrow on the one you want to see. A blank page will seem to open (like you are looking for files) to see them turn the filter off (blue button on remote).
Use Right arrow to enter the folder Left to Exit and OK to play the video and home to exit video. It may say buffering for a few seconds and then start playback (may be green to start). Quality is dependent on the website and way it was encoded so don't expect amazing quality on your 40" TV when it was recorded on a camera phone!

The scripts are located in C:\xampplite\htdocs\requests\scripts\ and can be edited (I changed YouTube into English for example) using Notepad++ (here).
BBC on demand is not working but as I said at the start I am putting this thread up to generate interest and hopefully create some new php files for the UK.

Some ideas for new scripts are:
MuVids
MTV
Fox
Universal
ITV On Demand

You can also watch live video streams.....

The possibilities really open up what can be done with the dbox and it may also work with the dreambox.

Enjoy.

[pete2vinal]

nice one, ill give it a try

<--pete2vinal added 20 Minutes and 10 Seconds later...-->

worked well thx

[chris_digital]

Found the original post from the tuxbox forum here but its in German (mostly).

And also the original source for the development at BerliOS here

[STU666]

Heres a handy little website for translating. It will also translate full web pages too apparently.

Yahoo! Babel Fish - Text Translation and Web Page Translation

its pretty accurate at translating german.

[witchy]

Not working for me

It just seems to buffer forever.

I'll try a different image

[Penguin2008]

Cool, sounds interesting. Will give this a try tonight.

[chris_digital]

Originally Posted by witchy2k1 Not working for me It just seems to buffer forever. I'll try a different image

Hi its probably not the image at fault, try Apple Movie Trailers or Youtube if they work then you should be ok, sometimes the script may be out of date or the file just isn't there.
Open the debug interface (C:\xampplite\AdminDebug-Interface) and check that all is well with the Apache server, when you click on the movie title you should get the link of the movie file (like http://movies.app**.com/movies/param...teen_h640w.mov)

STU666:
Tried babel fish many times but it will not work with the tuxbox forum, it is handy for other sites, thanks.