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  • 30-07-2004 11:57am
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    Ronan|Raven
    Registered Users Posts: 8,141 ✭✭✭


    Greetings,

    Thinking about buying myself a dreambox the DreamBox DM 5620 model is at a good price on a site I came across. Wondering how many of the users here have one and what they think about it. For those of you that do can it handle broadcasts in 4:2:2 ?


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    demac
    Registered Users Posts: 467 ✭✭demac


    I have the DM 7000 with a 160GB Samsung Hard Drive. It's a good piece of kit.


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    Zaphod
    Registered Users Posts: 1,733 ✭✭✭Zaphod


    Ronan|Raven wrote:
    Greetings,
    For those of you that do can it handle broadcasts in 4:2:2 ?

    Don't have one but from what I've read it can be used to stream to a PC which can then display 4:2:2. Also the latest version of the firmware will partially display a 4:2:2 stream.


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    telecinesk
    Registered Users Posts: 617 ✭✭✭telecinesk


    Hi,
    I tried 4.2.2 with a dbox2 that had a dreambox image and used from one of the german sites Tuxvision.Its ropey as hell and the pc goes into crash mode sometimes BUT it works! Do a search in goolge for tuxvision,I cant remember the link off hand. Also be aware w98se is best with tuxvision and a P3 at least. Keep us informed if you pull in any ebu feeds.. Good luck!


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    Urban Weigl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭Urban Weigl


    Do you reckon VideoLan could be used to pick up a dreambox stream? Was looking at it today, and it has loads of network options... Can pick up UDP/RTP, UDP/RTP Multicast and HTTP/FTP/MMS streams and decode most video formats.

    Apparently it also has advanced option where you can set it up to dump raw network input and what not.


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    Ronan|Raven
    Registered Users Posts: 8,141 ✭✭✭Ronan|Raven


    Videolan will work fine with it.


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    Urban Weigl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭Urban Weigl


    Anyone happen to know exactly how much bandwidth a video stream (assume it's mpeg2) with the dreambox uses up?

    Reason I ask is that there is no way I can get an ethernet cable into the room with my TV, so I am going to have to use a wireless solution. I have some old D-Link 22mbps equipment that I could use from last year. Done some real world tests with it, and it does a little above 1 megabyte per second (little over 10mbps real world). Would that be enough?


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    mayto
    Registered Users Posts: 849 ✭✭✭mayto


    have a search around this site http://sat-industry.net , you will have to register i think, but its the best dreambox site .good site to get dreambox off is www.hm-sat.de .the 5620 is 179 euro. choose (Nachnahme) cash on delivery, 19 euro for delivery by ups when i got mine in january.


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    Ronan|Raven
    Registered Users Posts: 8,141 ✭✭✭Ronan|Raven


    Picked up my 5620 from hmsat. Got a nice new 0.3db Goldstar lnb for 14euro as well. Now just to find time to sit down and get it working as I want it. ;)


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    Zaphod
    Registered Users Posts: 1,733 ✭✭✭Zaphod


    I gave a look at the BBC One video stream last night on a DVB card and ProgDVB, and it ranged between 350,000 and 450,000 bytes/sec.


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