Can you Stream Live TV *Freeview* with PS3 ?

ViRuS2k

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I have PS3 and use PS3 Media Server for my movies ect ect
but is there software out there that will let me view freeview TV through my PS3 via my pc useing a USB freeview Stick ?

im not sure its possible cause i have looked on google and all i can find is PlayTV wich i not want to have to buy.
 
ViRuS2k said:
I have PS3 and use PS3 Media Server for my movies ect ect
but is there software out there that will let me view freeview TV through my PS3 via my pc useing a USB freeview Stick ?

im not sure its possible cause i have looked on google and all i can find is PlayTV wich i not want to have to buy.
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Sounds like you want to stream the content being received on your PC (via your USB Freeview receiver) to your PS3?

Seeing as there is various software that can stream vide content from your PS3 to your PC (you mentioned 1 already), I am sure it is not technically impossible, with a delay of some sort. You would have to be "live" recording the PC content and then somehow streaming it via a streaming program. Sounds like it would be a lot of hassle, so people just buy PlayTV instead :)

Have you tried using a website like http://www.tvcatchup.com ? It has a lot of Freeview channels on there, and should work on PS3's web browser.


rp2000
 
nice site :)

question, ? how much bandwith does this site use ? and what type of speed do you need to keep the site from buffering all the time ?

cause say i had the site running 24/7 i dont think my ISP is going to be happy chappy lol
 
ViRuS2k said:
nice site :)

question, ? how much bandwith does this site use ? and what type of speed do you need to keep the site from buffering all the time ?

cause say i had the site running 24/7 i dont think my ISP is going to be happy chappy lol
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Load the site on your PC and see what kind of data rate it streams. After watching 3 channels (BBC1, ITV1, Virgin1) for a minute or 2 on my Mac I can see they are taking approximatley 100k a second.

As to whether they change bitrates depending on channel, time of day, capacity etc, You would have to do a few more tests. Based on my simplistic test above I would say you will be using

6 MegaBytes per minute OR 360 MegaBytes per hour OR 8.6 GigaBytes per day OR 258 GigaBytes per 30 day month.

Your ISP is going to love you if you stream that 24/7 ;)


rp2000
 
LOL yeah i guess your right, good though for movies and soaps but thats about it.
thought the quality is no where near as good as FREEVIEW digital TV quality.

it seems downsampled or something.
 
yeah but finding it cheap is what i will be looking for

cause if i want to watch tv with quality i will just use my PC

ok here is a question for you guys.

is there such a program as a PC useing Digital USB freeview to send the signal to my tv through HDMI ?

im not talking about the normal way like useing your TV as a pc monitor as thats not what im meaning.
i just need something to send the signal to my tv like a program that i can setup on my pc and broadcast any channel i select to my tv but still keep my PC`s full monitor 24" working as it should.

That way im not using up bandwidth for something i already have..
 
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ViRuS2k said:
LOL yeah i guess your right, good though for movies and soaps but thats about it.
thought the quality is no where near as good as FREEVIEW digital TV quality.

it seems downsampled or something.
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Freeview channels (last time I checked) vary in bitrate, between say 1Mbit and 5Mbit. in simple terms that is 125kb a sec to 625kb a sec (And I think that is just the video). Tvcacthup is 100kb-ish (at best?) so is never going to win any awards for quality :)

I am fairly sure these tvcatchup people just "record" a Live stream and encode it, on the fly, to a much lower bitrate and stream it.

I think BBC iPlayer/4oD and all other catchup services look much better, as they use higher bitrates, and some are even "HD". (Although none of these work on PS3 to my knowledge :( )

Tvcatchup is very poor quality in comparison. I feel sorry for people who use this as their sole method of watching TV.

ViRuS2k said:
yeah but finding it cheap is what i will be looking for

cause if i want to watch tv with quality i will just use my PC

ok here is a question for you guys.

is there such a program as a PC useing Digital USB freeview to send the signal to my tv through HDMI ?

im not talking about the normal way like useing your TV as a pc monitor as thats not what im meaning.
i just need something to send the signal to my tv like a program that i can setup on my pc and broadcast any channel i select to my tv but still keep my PC`s full monitor 24" working as it should.

That way im not using up bandwidth for something i already have..
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Not to my knowledge (although that is by no means definitive!! :) ) To do it from a PC you would have to be using your TV as a secondary monitor or something similar. That would be a reasonable solution imo, if you don't mind leaving your PC on all the time.

I am guessing your TV has only got basic 5 channels or something, hence your yearning to get your PC based freeview (extra 50 channels?) viewed on your TV. I myself hate to spend money duplicating the function of things I already own, but I see PlayTV is around £30 quid, if you look around (The price of a newish PS3 game). It runs off the USB slot in your PS3 and, I suspect, you would save money (electricity wise) over any solution you come up with which requires leaving your PC on for long periods of time, solely to stream video to your PS3 or TV.

Edit: Or you could just get a cheapo Freeview receiver (I am sure they are sub £30 quid), and save even more power from not having your PS3 and/or PC on to watch Freeview on your TV.


rp2000
 
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ViRuS2k said:
already have about 4 of them already but there all useing scart sockets as there main picture quality output.

i prefer HDMI :)
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I doubt there would be a big difference in RGB SCART output vs HDMI for something like Freeview which is Standard Definition video (576P iirc). Your TV will be stuck upscaling the picture to whatever it's native resolution is (720P or 1080P, I am guessing), in either case.


rp2000
 
1080p lol

i have gone the conventional way using pc as secondary but i just thought there would have been a easier solution

well anyway thanks for the help :)
 
ViRuS2k said:
already have about 4 of them already but there all useing scart sockets as there main picture quality output.

i prefer HDMI :)
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Get an upscaling HDMI one then. :p

I got one about 3 years ago for about £30, cant imagine them being too expensive these days.

Also, TBH (and from experience of said box), the difference between scart and hdmi for sd terrestrial broadcast is minimal.
 
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