subject: How to use dreambox 800 watching different channels in the same frequency [print this page] How to use dreambox 800 watching different channels in the same frequency
There is no doubt that dreambox 800 is very powerful, especially in receiving the shared hd. However, do you know how to use dreambox 800 watching different channels in the same transponder frequency in LAN with computer and television? Here we will tell you the skills. If you can manage it, it means that you you get more than two machines work at the same time, especially for network broadcasting frequently. 1. Make it sure that the IE on your computer has been given a promotion at least to 8.0. Your can do it very easily with the help of Internet. 2. The dreambox 800 should be the latest edition. There are many major sites provide how to update your dreambox 800 and you can get the lastest edition for the Internet. 3. Install an player that supports hd on your computer. You can choose SMPlayer or VLC media player or any other similar players. Generally speaking, I prefer SMPlayer. Because it has ever been regarded as the best media player under Linux operating system. 4. Turn on your computer and television and let the dreambox 800 on an hd channel. For example, you can change the channel to CNN. 5. Open the IE and enter the IP of dreambox 800, click Enter. Click the icon that looks like an television on the screen and it will download and generate an stream.3u file. Remember that you should choose the channels that on the same transponder. If you want to watch many channels, you need download more stream.3u files. You can rename the files but can't change the suffix. 6. Find the stream.m3u you downloaded, right click the file and click alteration and choose the player which can play MPEG-TS. 7. After taking all the six steps above, you can double click the stream.m3u icon and it will links to the SMPlayer and open it. It will be a few seconds later than the program that played by dreambox 800 on the television. After watching the computer playing the channel, you can turn back to dreambox 800 and switch the channel while the computer still playing the channel foregoing normally. Repeat the fifth step and choose the stream.m3u file that was downloaded in different channels by dreambox 800, rename it and you can watch the channel on your computer. So far, we are able to watch different channels in the same transponder frequency from dreambox 800 on the television and computer at the same time. What's more, we can establish an small online broadcasting system within 10 channels in LAN.
