Originally Posted by Bob the Bruce  ….most likely but I'll not know till I've got this configured and seen it myself ;-)
I was though hoping to save myself the trouble of writing to disc. My external HDD has a good 220Gb's worth of avi and thought I'd try the VLC route. The PC is in a different room to the TV/DB and connected with an ethernet bridge at 160mbps, so thought I'd just as well use it ! Easier said than done if, like me, you've not got a clue what you're doing  |
Sorry I am not able to help much, as I haven't tried streaming till now.
But I think that there are many threads about streaming, so need to read a bit. Perhaps using VLC alone is enough.
Not sure about the *.avi format though. I know that Dreambox doesn't support this format, but hopefully streaming would be OK.
In the meantime, have you tried streaming a *.mpg file as DB does support this format. If you can get it working, it could mean that *.avi will not.