Intro

The North Atlantic Space Agency (in the common NASA) due to the total lack of funding is constantly fighting for the "brain share" (mindshare) of the American taxpayer. The entertainment program of the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Cannaveral, custom films and cartoons (Fly to the Moon), the websites of NASA itself and all space missions, bloggers and even the robots themselves, who during their missions have time to post, serve these purposes. Twittering ( Where am I now? Travelin '2.49km / s (5577mph). 1,737km from the Moon. T-2min #lcross ). NASA even has its own television, where in HD you can watch live broadcasts from the ISS, streaming video from webcams installed on it, reviews, press conferences and live reports from flight control centers. A strongly compressed (in the sense of resolution, not content) version of NASA broadcasts on the Internet on the NASA TV website.
But sometimes you want not to sit like a ghoul at a computer, looking at the monitor (wives do not understand this, for them there is no difference - you write to the blog, watch porn, add the poppy address of her poppy in the allow-list on the router, fix problems with home IP -phone or watch telly), and, opening a bottle of beer and lounging on a sofa, portray an exemplary father of the family, tired after a hard shift.

Problem

I think that the owners of HTPC have no problems - I took the address of the stream, drove it into the player and see. My video on TV is not being expelled by the HTPC, but by the excellent Popcorn Hour PCH A110 media device. This function is almost a complete analogue of BBK, eGreat and other players, since they all use the same software - NMT (networked media tank) from Syabas. In principle, NMT can play most of the streams, but an ambush lurked with NASA TV. Despite the fact that if you look at the properties of the stream, you will see the address http: //, this is actually the stream mms: //, that is, the proprietary Microsoft protocol, which nmt cannot play and does not intend to learn. Frankly speaking, their position is not quite clear, since, for example, VLC, not being the brainchild of MS, calmly copes with the task of playing mms: //, but you have to accept the fact that there is.

Decision

Fortunately, the network has a computer on which you can run the same VLC and configure it to stream transcoding from mms: // in http: //, and http: // already feed popcorn. Go!

1. We launch VLC and open a stream from NASA in it: Press ctrl + s (streaming), go to the Network tab, in the Address line insert the link to the stream: http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1369080&segment= 149773 , click the button Flow.
   
2. The Output Stream window appears. We need the http option, in the Conclusions group we put a tick on HTTP, we must fill in the Address and Port fields - this is the interface from which VLC will drive the stream, i.e. The IP address of that network card.
   
3. In the profile field, you can select a pre-configured MPEG-2, or you can independently configure encapsulation, video and audio codecs, bitrates, and so on.
   
4. Please note that for convenience, VLC shows below the full parameter string that implements the settings you just made. This is a mega useful thing if you want to do without a computer — for example, by running transcoding on a server or router (wl500gP is supposed to master such a task). VLC manuals are impressive and in order to compile this line on your own, you will have to smoke more than one evening manuals. Another useful application is creating a shortcut on your desktop. You need to create a shortcut on VLC, and then in its properties add the stream address and parameters after the ekzeshnik:
   "C: \ Program Files (x86) \ VideoLAN \ VLC \ vlc.exe"
   playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1369080&segment=149773
   : sout = # transcode {vcodec = mp2v, vb = 800, scale = 1, acodec = mpga, ab = 128, channels = 2}: duplicate {dst = std {access = http, mux = ts, dst = 192.168.15.100 : 8989}}
   So the label will consist of three parts with a space between them: the path to VLC, the address of the stream, the string of parameters. Next time it will be possible to launch VLC, and he himself will begin to transcode the video and send it to the network using the http protocol.
   
5. Next, you need to tell the Extender that the computer is broadcasting TV. To do this, create a playlist - a regular html-file with the contents:
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   <a href=”http://ip-of-computer:port/” vod>NASA TV</a>

   
   This file can be thrown to the console by samba or carried on a flash drive. Next, using the remote control and looking at the telly, go to the disk / flash drive, select the display filter "other files", choose our playlist. There we click on the link and woo-a la.
   

Comments

1. Transcoding can theoretically be configured, for example, on a router - in order not to keep the computer turned on. For WL500gP stitched by Oleg, VLC is in the repository
2. Any supported NMT stream can be played without a layer between the console and the server as a computer - just by creating your playlist
3. If the grid has IP TV, then you can watch it on NMT in the same way.
4. You can watch videos not only on NMT, but also smartphones - everything is the same