PromaSoft EPGcenter
  EPG Software for Windows

Video Streaming on the Dreambox

EPGcenter allows you to perform Video Streaming to your PC. In other words this will enable you to watch your Dreambox channels on your PC. This also allows you to watch High Definition channels on your PC.

VLC Media Player ActiveX Plugin

To be able to perform video streaming you will need to install version 0.8.5 of VLC. Most important is that you select the "ActiveX" installation option when installing VLC. VLC can be downloaded here

Correct FTP server address

Obviously you need to make sure that on the options/FTP server panel you have entered the correct IP address, userid and password of your dreambox

There are several ways to start video streaming in EPGcenter

Immediately watch the currently playing channel

Press CTRL-P in EPGcenter. Video streaming will immediately start on the channel that is currently playing on the Dreambox

or

Select View/Streaming Video from the Menu

Watch a specific EPGcenter channel

Double click on a channel in the channels tree on the main EPG page. Video streaming will start on the selected channel

or

Right click on a channel and select "Video Streaming"

or

Right click on a program and select "Video Streaming"

Watch a specific Dreambox channel

Press CTRL-B to open the Bouquet browser then double click on the channel you want to view. The difference here is that you get a list of ALL channels you have in the bouquets on your Dreambox.

Once streaming is started you can control the player using following hotkeys

F1 - Shows an overview of all available hotkeys

F - Toggles Fullscreen view. Note that in fullscreen all other hotkeys will still work

B - Toggles the Bouquet browser allowing you to zap

M - Toggles Mute

T - Toggles the video player to keep on top or not

A - Changes the dimensions of the video player to fit the aspect ratio of the playing program

E - Toggles the EPG timeline view on top of the player. This also works in fullscreen mode. You can use the arrow keys to navigate in the EPG

ESC or X - Exits the video streaming

Page-Down - Zap to next channel

Page-Up - Zap to previous channel

Numpad Minus - Volume Down

Numpad Plus - Volume Up

Tab - Switches screen locations of the video streaming window to be in one of the four corners of your screen

Starting EPGcenter with the \STREAM commandline parameter will immediatly start the video streaming of the currently playing channel in fullscreen mode.

Use: EPGcenter.EXE \STREAM