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[haggis999]

Up to now, I have only ever used JRiver MC for playing audio files or MKV rips of my own DVD/BD collection (using media files stored on a NAS). I have never previously dabbled in the world of live streaming. However, there is a live streaming of an opera tonight from the Glyndebourne opera house in England, via the website of the Daily Telegraph (a prominent UK newspaper). I would like to watch this on my TV, not my computer screen, and would appreciate some assistance on how to achieve this using MC's Media Server - assuming that this is possible.

So far, my attempts to stream video via DLNA from MC to either my smart Panasonic TV or to my Oppo BDP-105 universal media player have failed. These initial experiments used YouTube videos. I was able to view them in MC on my Windows 7 PC and used the 'Add the link to my library (no download)' option to ensure that each specific video was available via the Media Player library (where they appeared as MP4 files). I had no problem playing such MP4 files from the Video library in MC itself, and I can see these files from both my TV and the Oppo. However, when I tried playing them on either the TV or the Oppo I got the error message "The file format is not supported".

Any guidance would be much appreciated.  

David

EDIT:  The Oppo player supports playback of MP4 files via DLNA, though the source that provided this information stated that the "DLNA playback also depends on the DLNA server's capability".    

[AndrewFG]

MC can push locally stored media tracks to your Panasonic or your Oppo via UPNP / DLNA. But it cannot push remote streamed media to such devices.

[haggis999]

Hi Andrew,
Thanks for that clarification.

Both my TV and Oppo player offer a small selection of specific online streaming sources but seem to lack the ability to access an URL of your own choice, so perhaps what I was hoping to do is simply impossible with current technology. Watching a full length opera on a relatively small computer screen is not a very practical solution for viewing at home with my wife, so it looks like I will have to stick to buying Blu-ray recordings.

David

[AndrewFG]

In theory it would not be impossible for a future version of MC to push a third party remote stream to a third party renderer. However the current version it dos not this.

[haggis999]

In theory it would not be impossible for a future version of MC to push a third party remote stream to a third party renderer. However the current version it dos not this.

If it is theoretically possible, is there a chance that some other DLNA server software already offers such a solution?  

EDIT:  It looks like a media server called PlayOn Plus might do what I want...