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Originally Posted by Tower Guy
Nice!
Are their any IPTVs or IP enabled STBs that will catch the UDP packets directly from the HDHomerun?
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I don't know, I've not searched for any.
There is good support for both MS Windows XP through Win-7 and Open Source OS and HTPC apps including a variety of Linux distributions, MythTV, VLC, etc. As I understand it, the data stream is just standard MPEG-2 over UDP/IP, nothing proprietary.
An out of the box laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium makes an OK HTPC/DVR with no additional software to install after the HD HomeRun utilities. As usual MS has done some things right and others are funky, like limiting the number of connected tuners to four and presuming that if you want to scan for more channels, only the software should be allowed... no manual input allowed.
So far, it seems to me that the price of a PC is competitive with HD capable STB's -- so I just haven't looked at integration of STB or IPTV equipment. I'm currently focused on a Linux based HTPC build.