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Movieplayer

DBox Movieplayer via VLC

You can use VLC running on your PC to be able to watch DVD's or even Divx/XVid Movies from your PC on your DBox.

Only Images created after ~ 17.03.2007 have this new Feature included. Older Images can cause trouble using this method so all Information is based on newer Images.

You will need VLC at least Version 0.85 better 0.86

Install VLC on your windows PC (Linux Guide is here)

After the installation I set my VLC as a Service so it always runs in the Background:

then click on start

click on run

type cmd and hit enter

cd C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC (HINT: you might have changed the destination when you installed it !!)

then paste below and hit enter:

vlc.exe -I ntservice --ntservice-install --ntservice-options "--sout-transcode-fps 25.0000" --ntservice-extraintf "http"

After this reboot your PC. After the Reboot you can browse to VLC via http://127.0.0.0:8080

Now on your Dbox set the Movieplayer Settings:

Photo from the YWeb Interface

The Streaming PC is the PC were you run VLC

You might need to set the default Gateway and DNS within the network settings of the Dbox.

Default gateway & dns is normally the IP of your Router

(Click on Start,Click on Run, Type CMD and hit Enter then type IPConfig /all and note the Details)

The Start Drive is were you keep your Movies. It must be set but you can browse out of this directory and open all drives attached to your PC.

Important is that the OK Button on a Directory scans the whole directory and this my take a while in case of My Documents (Example !)

NEW

you can now select if VLC should scan the Directory

Use the -> Key or Button to browse into a subdirectory to avaoid this scanning process.

In my Example my Films weres stored:

C:\Documents and Settings\ExampleUser\My Documents\My Videos

Movieplayer could not browse this directory and only showed me this:

Pressing OK got me here:

This can be fixed by using an Application called Junction. You find it here

This only works with NTFS drives !!!

You can use it the following way:

C:\tmp>junction "c:\Movies" "C:\Documents and Settings\Hans\My Documents\My Videos"

This Example works the following

I have the file junction.exe within /tmp

C:\Movies is the new directory I want to Link to C:\Documents and Settings\Hans\My Documents\My Videos

Please pay attention to the " as they are needed if there are spaces between the names.

The Standard Directory for Moviebrowser to be set is c:\movies ;-)

?	Help
Red	End
Green	Select Audiotrack
Yellow	Pause/Playback
Blue	Create Bookmark
Home	a)whilst Playback = Stop&Filebrowser b)In Filebrowser = END
OK	Filebrowser (only whilst Playback)
Dbox Button	Show Playtime
Up	previous Video
Down	following Video
Left	jump 15 seconds back
Right	jump 15 seconds ahead
1 / 3	jump 1 minute back/ahead
4 / 6	jump 5 minute back/ahead
7 / 9	jump 10 minute back/ahead
2	jump to the beginning
5	jump to the middle
8	jump near the end
0	resync the movie

In belows example set the Streaming Server to an and enter the IP of your PC that runs VLC as a Service in the Background.