Firestream - 1394 TS to Network Streamer

What is it?

Have you ever wanted to take video from your cablebox and push it over a LAN? firestream is a utility that takes firewire output from a cablebox and transmits it over the network using either udp or multicast.

Required:

• Linux machine with 1394 interface and network connection
• Libraries: pthread libavc1394-dev libraw1394-dev libiec61883-dev
• Development libraries (include c++)
• Cablebox with 1394 output (Motorola DCT6200, etc)

Download source code here

How to build:

• untar xvfz firestream.tar.gz
• cd firestream
• make

Usage examples:

firestream uses raw1394 libraries which requires a node to connect to. The program can automatically select the first active node or the user can specify a node. Users can find active nodes by using the plugreport utility. The active nodes will show oPCR and iPCR online. If a user wants to specify a node the first parameter needs to be -n followed by node number.

To send 1394 output to computer 192.168.0.10 and port 6000 via udp:
firestream 192.168.0.10:6000

To send 1394 output to multicast network 239.0.0.1 and port 6000:
firestream 239.0.0.1:6000

To use 1394 node 1 and sent output to computer 192.168.0.10 and 192.168.0.20 with port 6000 as destination via udp:
firestream -n 1 192.168.0.10:6000 192.168.0.20:6000

Playing output on computer

Using vlc streaming to 192.168.0.10:6000. On the machine with network address 192.168.0.10:

• click "Media" -> "Open Network Stream"
• enter "udp://@:6000" for network URL
• click "Play" button
  
  

For any questions, please contact firestream@notwood.net