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** ====== How to Stream Your Windows PC Desktop ====== ** | ** ====== How to Stream Your Windows PC Desktop ====== ** | ||
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- | Process under development and maybe updated at anytime. Last update 14/ | ||
This process allows any video playable on your desktop, preferably in fullscreen, to be streamed and displayed on your TV. The only Serviio change is to add the video stream from your PC to the Serviio console as a video livestream at your PC address eg: %%http:// | This process allows any video playable on your desktop, preferably in fullscreen, to be streamed and displayed on your TV. The only Serviio change is to add the video stream from your PC to the Serviio console as a video livestream at your PC address eg: %%http:// | ||
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While the ability to stream your desktop to your TV can give you a remote monitor capability, the real value is to be able to display the output of any application on your TV, in particular the fullscreen output from any video playback application including flash videos. | While the ability to stream your desktop to your TV can give you a remote monitor capability, the real value is to be able to display the output of any application on your TV, in particular the fullscreen output from any video playback application including flash videos. | ||
- | This means that you can now browse and display all those videos on news sites, tv network shows, movie sites, social sites or music sites etc, that are not available as rss feeds, or unencripted | + | This means that you can now browse and display all those videos on news sites, tv network shows, movie sites, social sites or music sites etc, that are not available as rss feeds, or unencrypted |
To stream your desktop you need to install VLC to do the streaming, a directshow video input filter to capture the desktop area, and a directshow audio input filter to capture the sound output from the application. | To stream your desktop you need to install VLC to do the streaming, a directshow video input filter to capture the desktop area, and a directshow audio input filter to capture the sound output from the application. | ||
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This process has been tested and works correctly with VLC 1.1.10. It may break with other versions or nightlys so be warned. Since VLC is registry independent, | This process has been tested and works correctly with VLC 1.1.10. It may break with other versions or nightlys so be warned. Since VLC is registry independent, | ||
- | For the video input filter, I used screen-capture-recorder (SCR)because its free, it works, is configurable and is under active maintenance (download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/ | + | For the video input filter, I used screen-capture-recorder (SCR) because its free, it works, is configurable and is under active maintenance (download from links on https://github.com/rdp/screen-capture-recorder-to-video-windows-free). Read the README for instructions on how it works and how to use the " |
- | By default, it is supposed to capture the whole screen. For some reason however on initial install I got a lot of static. If this happens to you, run the " | + | By default, it is supposed to capture the whole screen. For some reason however on initial install I got a lot of static. If this happens to you, run the " |
- | To get Serviio to play the video stream this process requires the inclusion of an audio track, even if you do not want to hear the audio of any video you are playing on the pc. It may be possible to stream the video only, however this process does not addres | + | To get Serviio to play the video stream this process requires the inclusion of an audio track, even if you do not want to hear the audio of any video you are playing on the pc. It may be possible to stream the video only, however this process does not address |
- | For the audio input filter, you should try the free virtual audio capture grabber device | + | For the audio input filter, you should try the free virtual audio capture grabber device |
To setup VAC for streaming, in the Sound Control panel for both Recording and Playback, | To setup VAC for streaming, in the Sound Control panel for both Recording and Playback, | ||
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Note that the use of MPEG2 is essential to the success of this process. While h264 may be considered by some to be a better choice, it requires significantly more CPU cycles to encode than MPEG2, and more significantly that load increases in relation to the dynamics of the area being captured, whereas the MPEG2 load is flat regardless of the dynamics. This can lead to the belief that h264 is satisfactory based on the transcoding of a static desktop, however when a video is being played the h264 load soars while the MPEG2 load stays the same. | Note that the use of MPEG2 is essential to the success of this process. While h264 may be considered by some to be a better choice, it requires significantly more CPU cycles to encode than MPEG2, and more significantly that load increases in relation to the dynamics of the area being captured, whereas the MPEG2 load is flat regardless of the dynamics. This can lead to the belief that h264 is satisfactory based on the transcoding of a static desktop, however when a video is being played the h264 load soars while the MPEG2 load stays the same. | ||
- | Note that your PC must be fast enough to read any incoming stream, render it using a player to the screen, capture the desktop screen, transcode it to an MPEG2 video stream and send it as an output stream, all in real-time, otherwise the TV will sense the real-time delay as the termination of the stream and issue some type of File Format Not Supported message. Reducing your PC screen resolution or the size of the capture window can help reduce the capture and transcoding load. Based on user feedback, even dual core systems can have problems | + | Note that your PC must be fast enough to read any incoming stream, render it using a player to the screen, capture the desktop screen, transcode it to an MPEG2 video stream and send it as an output stream, all in real-time, otherwise the TV will sense the real-time delay as the termination of the stream and issue some type of File Format Not Supported message. Reducing your PC screen resolution or the size of the capture window can help reduce the capture and transcoding load, however the resolution of the streamed picture on the TV will be correspondingly reduced, and only part of the desktop may be streamed. Since neither of these outcomes are consistent with the goals of this wiki to stream your full desktop at its full resolution, and somewhat impractical to use, these alternatives are not further explored. Based on user feedback, even dual core systems can have problems. In my case my 8 core I7 uses about 15% cpu but if reduced to 2 cores runs at about 90% cpu. |
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:A corresponding player must be started using HTTP | :A corresponding player must be started using HTTP | ||
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:Exit | :Exit | ||
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Please post your experiences with this setup in the " | Please post your experiences with this setup in the " | ||
- | - Jan 8, 2012 - Changed setup sequence. Noted stream must be started before adding link to Serviio. Added VACGD info. Added .bat tuning info. | + | - Jan 8, 2012 - Changed setup sequence. Noted stream must be started before adding link to Serviio. Added VACGD info. Added .bat tuning info. |
- Jan 12, 2012 - Edited for more clarity per user feedback. | - Jan 12, 2012 - Edited for more clarity per user feedback. | ||
- Jan 14, 2012 - Edited to explain why transcoding needs to be to MPEG2 | - Jan 14, 2012 - Edited to explain why transcoding needs to be to MPEG2 | ||
+ | - Jan 21, 2012 - Removed soverlay parameter from command as redundant, and identify lack of low resolution/ |