### Digital Kaos v1 Dreambox Image for DM500 C/S/T ###

**Devilfish** · 12th August, 2008, 06:11 PM

You can't pause live tv on a DM500, there's no hard disk.

**pflook** · 12th August, 2008, 06:17 PM

Originally Posted by Devilfish

You can't pause live tv on a DM500, there's no hard disk.

i know that...i record over my network, to a shared area using cifs.
and playback the ts recordings using either vlc or using the dm500 for playback. recording works great on it, but as i stated i cant find the pause button....i remember i had it working at some stage....

it couldve been when i first got it and tried a couple of images on the box...it may have been one of them that had this function, i rememeber a temp file being created on my shared area and it was the "paused live tv"

**Devilfish** · 12th August, 2008, 06:33 PM

The pause key is the yellow key, after bringing up the dvr controls.

I've never tried this or tested it so can't say if it will or will not work with this image. But the control is there.

**Dazza** · 13th August, 2008, 02:13 AM

I can't get VLC working at all on th DK image, is there anything I need to do...? (Had it working ok on DW image)

It's not to record or 'owt, just to watch it on the PC...

Nowt' works, whether I use the Web Panel link, or the short cut I've created for VLC to access it directly...?

**pflook** · 14th August, 2008, 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by Dazza

I can't get VLC working at all on th DK image, is there anything I need to do...? (Had it working ok on DW image)

It's not to record or 'owt, just to watch it on the PC...

Nowt' works, whether I use the Web Panel link, or the short cut I've created for VLC to access it directly...?

Dazza,
are you running windows xp? i had that problem untill i made an exception in the windows firewall, test it by turning it off and retrying, ive also had the dreaded traffic cone problem on the web front end, but it was normally solved by changing channels and switching back.

you can also try dreamview to watch tv, even though thats only a frontend to vlc ive had better luck with that then using vlc standalone.

ive also had problems if the channel im watching is weak, it seems fine on the tv but streamig it creates breaks in the audio and sometimes i get green artifacts on screen, in some cases vlc doesnt even detect a stream at all, i just retry and eventually it works for me.

**Dazza** · 14th August, 2008, 01:48 PM

Originally Posted by pflook

Dazza,
are you running windows xp?

Yes mate, XP, sp3.

Firewall is config'd properly. (Not changed anything on the PC setup, just changed the 500c images.)

I'll test it on my Ubuntu setup and see what occurs....