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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Marc on July 03, 2005, 11:25:55 pm

Title: Stream Live Audio to TiVo and UPnP Servers
Post by: Marc on July 03, 2005, 11:25:55 pm

Question for you,

I've got my XM Roady2 connected to my computer via my sound card's line-in port.  When I want to hear XM through my computer, I just unmute the Line-In and then it's XM live through my computer's THX speakers - nice.  Since I've got this excellent signal source running through my computer, I got to thinking about streaming it to my TiVo's, my Netgear MP101 (via the UPnP Server), etc.

How might I accomplish this?  It would be excellent to be able to listen to MLB or whatever all over my house.

Thanks for any advice you might be able to provide.

Marc

Title: Re: Stream Live Audio to TiVo and UPnP Servers
Post by: Marc on July 09, 2005, 12:30:48 am

Anybody?   ?

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Title: Re: Stream Live Audio to TiVo and UPnP Servers
Post by: Myron on July 09, 2005, 04:20:41 pm

Quote from: Marc on July 03, 2005, 11:25:55 pm

Question for you,

I've got my XM Roady2 connected to my computer via my sound card's line-in port.  When I want to hear XM through my computer, I just unmute the Line-In and then it's XM live through my computer's THX speakers - nice.  Since I've got this excellent signal source running through my computer, I got to thinking about streaming it to my TiVo's, my Netgear MP101 (via the UPnP Server), etc.

How might I accomplish this?  It would be excellent to be able to listen to MLB or whatever all over my house.

Thanks for any advice you might be able to provide.

Marc

Sounds like a great idea!

As far as I know, MC won't do this.  The UPnP server only works on files stored on a drive.

Title: Re: Stream Live Audio to TiVo and UPnP Servers
Post by: JimH on July 09, 2005, 04:48:57 pm

We'll take a look at doing this in the next version.  Thanks for the suggestion.

Title: Re: Stream Live Audio to TiVo and UPnP Servers
Post by: Bill Kearney on July 11, 2005, 12:41:52 am

It's one thing to just pipe an audio signal through a mixer.  It's another thing entirely to capture the audio source, digitize it and send it out again as a digital stream.   Also consider the latency hassles if you wanted to even *dream* about having that signal be even close to real time or want to sync it across more than one output zone.  Buffering up a bunch of output streams from a disk file is hard but nowhere near as hard as a live source.  Not if you also expect something might be listening to the live source and need to sync with it.

Better, perhaps, just to have a direct digital source of the stream and buffer it all from there first before going to any outputs.  That way they'd all be reasonably close to the same offset from the actual live source.