Vladimir Kangin wrote: > I would like to raise a discussion about VDR compliance with a wide > range available STBs (Set-Top-Box) for IPTV carrier integration. > > The advantage of such compliance is obvious - low cost of STB. The cost > of STB is in the range of 80-150 USD. I'm not sure about what you're actually talking. Do you want VDR to act as IPTV receiver, do you want VDR to act as a relay from classic digital TV to IPTV boxes, do you want some IPTV box with VDR as software, or do you want to use a IPTV box as VDR remote front end? > The compliance is actually matter of: > > 1) multicast MPEG-TS streaming support; As for receiving multicast, this is possible with streamplayer plugin. Transmitting could be done with VLC and streamdev - or even with VLC alone. > 2) vdradmin support for multiuser STB environment. I'm not sure what this is supposed to be. Cheers, Udo
