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14.1.05 20:18 WLAN TV Video Streaming on Laptop with DBox, jgrabber and mplayer (

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Finally I can watch television on my laptop at home over wlan. This article describes my infrastructure.

I use the following components:
- DBox: this is a TV receiver sold in Germany together since several years by Pay-TV provider Premiere. Even if it is very old (66 MHz power PC if I remember well), it has some very nice features. First it has an Ethernet adapter, allowing to connect it to a network. Second: since several years, people have ported Linux on it and it works very well (much faster than original software, many features). The image I use is called Neutrino.
- a Windows Laptop, but all the following works very well too with Linux (tested on my home PC), connected via WLAN to your home network
- Jack the JGrabber: it is an application which allows remote control of a Linux DBox. It includes the following features: 1) Channel overview (incl. search, EPG), 2) Live playback, 3) instant and timer recording, 4) streaming of video signal in network ...
- MPlayer: movie player which plays all kind of streams/codecs, including DVB transport stream. You can also use VideoLAN client, or, on Linux, xine.

Here is the short recipe:
- connect your DBox with Ethernet to your home network. Give your DBox an IP address
- Install JtJG on your laptop (extract) and start it. Start JtJG and set the DBox IP address
- configure the player you want to use for playback (mplayer)
- go in the channel overview, select the channel and start playback
That's it.