Streaming desktop

I have this working - fantastic.

However, I played a DVD on the PC and it just showed a black screen on the TV.

How can I use this to get a DVD to stream from the PC to the TV?

[jhb50]

Try playing the DVD in a window. If the TV shows all but the DVD window ok, my guess its DRM..the DVD is copyrighted and the technology won't let you send it to another device because it sees that as an illegal copy. You need to rip the DVD or get a DVD player for the TV.

[zip]

It might also be caused by the fullscreen mode not properly captured by the driver.

[jhb50]

It might also be caused by the fullscreen mode not properly captured by the driver.

I have not seen that problem reported for the screen-capture-recorder. Did I miss something that should be in the wiki?

[zip]

Just guessing. Full screen might be using different display mechanism - DirectX or what not.

I don't know whether it makes any difference, but when I play a DVD on the PC it opens in Windows Media Center. Do you think DVD's might work if opened with a particular program?

It would be good to get Serviio working with DVD's as I don't actually have a DVD player attached to my TV.

[zip]

Try to play the DVD in VLC itself

Try to play the DVD in VLC itself

It wouldn't work at first, but then I opened the DVD in a second instance of VLC and then it worked (of course the first instance of VLC is used to stream the desktop).

EDIT: Just to add... when viewing a DVD with WMP at fullscreen, it make the window on the TV go black. Using WMP you can only see the DVD on the TV it when viewed in a smaller window on the PC.

One problem, when viewed on the TV (using either VLC or WMP in a small window), every few seconds parts of the image pixelate and suffer audio drop-outs. Ummm. I don't know how to reduce that.

[WildRushSykes]

Is your networked wired or wireless? Try wired and report back.

Is your networked wired or wireless? Try wired and report back.

It is wired. The CPU performance is at between 34% to 41%. Computer has an 8 core i7.

I have this using port 8888 rather than 8081. I don't know whether that would make any difference.

[jhb50]

I'm a little confused, you never said what you were using to play the DVD when you got the black screen, nor did you respond back with the results of the window option. Now you have asked if playing it with a different player would make a difference, but it obviously did because you got a picture with WMP.

It would be nice to know why you got a black screen so we could help others with the same problem. Zip's reconmendation to use VLC for playback is the best because using the Advanced Playback option you can play the DVD and stream the output. If you select the same options as used for streaming the desktop in the wiki it should work fine.

[WildRushSykes]

Computer has an 8 core i7.

WildRushSykes is now super jealous

I'm a little confused, you never said what you were using to play the DVD when you got the black screen, nor did you respond back with the results of the window option. Now you have asked if playing it with a different player would make a difference, but it obviously did because you got a picture with WMP.

It would be nice to know why you got a black screen so we could help others with the same problem. Zip's reconmendation to use VLC for playback is the best because using the Advanced Playback option you can play the DVD and stream the output. If you select the same options as used for streaming the desktop in the wiki it should work fine.

I think you must have missed my answers.

An update... using one instance of VLC, you can actually stream from the DVD on the PC to the TV via DLNA without having to stream the whole of the PC desktop.

This means that someone could use the PC as normal whilst the PC DVD is played on a TV.

Also, by doing it this way, I don't get any audio or video drop-outs.

One problem... I can't see the DVD being played in the VLC window on the PC (VLC just shows a black window with a cone). If I could do that then this would be excellent.

[jhb50]

I think you must have missed my answers.

No, there is nothing in this thread answering those questions.. just your post that it worked with WMC.

An update... using one instance of VLC, you can actually stream from the DVD

Yes, as I said "using the Advanced Playback option you can play the DVD and stream the output."

I can't see the DVD being played in the VLC window

click the "Display Locally" box or add }:display to the end of your transcoding command.

Still be nice to see your black screen answers.

Still be nice to see your black screen answers.

When I was having the black screen problem on the TV (when the PC was streaming the desktop with the DVD in full screen mode) I explained:

"I don't know whether it makes any difference, but when I play a DVD on the PC it opens in Windows Media Center"

Zip suggested I try VLC instead - which then worked in full screen mode. The black screen on the TV problem seems to be down to WMP in full screen mode.

[jhb50]

Ok thanks, I misunderstood your response. Is it working now with one vlc? You might post a wiki entry on How to Stream a DVD!

Ok thanks, I misunderstood your response. Is it working now with one vlc? You might post a wiki entry on How to Stream a DVD!

I can stream the DVD from the PC but the VLC player window is blank so I can't see where it is at on the PC, or I can have the DVD playing in the VLC window but not streaming to the TV (TV says format not supported).

What I want is to stream the DVD to the TV whilst viewing it in the VLC window, but I can only seem to get it to do one or the other, not both.

[jhb50]

I've drafted a wiki for playing and streaming a DVD. Please test it.
http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=stream_dvd

I've drafted a wiki for playing and streaming a DVD. Please test it.
http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=stream_dvd

That works. It is now actually streaming better from the DVD than it is from streaming the desktop. When streaming the desktop, I get a sound glitch with a pixelated picture every few seconds (on the TV).