Dreambox

After a few months of downtime for my Dreambox ReStream 2.0 demo page, it is now back online. The software of my AZBox is now so far that I can stream from it with VLC. So you can watch again some television as a demo at my server.

The demo is limit to a time frame. Because of the power bill the AZBox is only powered in the evening. That is from 18:00 till 01:00 European time.

Hi all,

I have recently bought a new digital receiver. This is an AZBox. These receivers are cheaper than a Dreambox and can do the same thing. And the AZBox uses Enigma2 software for watching television. But the software is not yet finished. And therefore I can't stream to the internet at this time.

The development will be slowing down because of this. I still have the old Dreambox, but not sure for how long.

Another update of the Dreambox ReStream software. This version should fix the problem with a lot or boutiques. You need a CSS3 capable browser to get it working.

Another issue is that Windows 7 and 2008 have problems starting VLC when you zap. This problem should also being fixed, but I can't test it because I don't use Windows :P

Further more I have updated some libraries like jQuery, jQuery UI and jQuery mobile. This should also make the mobile web interface working again. And with a RTSP enabled phone, you can watch your TV on your mobile phone!

A new version is out. It is mostly a bug fixing round. Check the change log on the download page for the changes.

A rather big change is the extra setting for streaming with VLC only. It was not possible to set a different public DNS name to the VLC server an run it locally. Now there is an extra setting which will hold the DNS name. Look for the variable '$vlcPlayerIP'.

And I hope that some cosmetic issues are fixed. So that the channels are accessable with a lot of boutiques.

A new version is here. This version has some small fixes and a new feature. You can read more on the download page where the changelog is.

There is still a small issue with the amount of boutiques and the height of the channels listings. I am working on that to find a solution for that.

After a week a small update. There was an old known bug in the system. It should not be there and is squashed now !

And there is a change in the audio codec for better streaming performance. There are issues with VLC and mp4 audio codecs... Currently I don't have a clue why...

I proudly present Dreambox ReStream 2.0!

The final version is released after a long time of development. The biggest problem was to get the stream running on a mobile phone. Due to codec problems, the final version has dropped mobile support out of the box. It can be realized but needs some manual adjustments in the code.

The main features are now that we have multi bit rate. Default there are three bit-rates. But it can be increased or decreased. More information how to change will be at the FAQ.

After a few months of debugging and feedback we have now reached Beta 1 of Dreambox ReStream. I want to thank a lot of people for the feedback. It helped a lot to make the software more robust. And to support more different type of images on the Dreambox.

A short list of the much fixes and new features:

A complete new rewritten version of Dreambox ReStream is available. It is still an alpha version, but it should be pretty stable.

This version has a different code base, and has a different look. This version also supports streaming of your movies on disk like it were Dreambox recordings.

The iPhone support is still a bit buggy, but you should get a nice page when you use your iPhone / Blackberry on ReStream 2.0 website.