Hi Guys!

I am still reading in this great forum a long time. But from now on, I also want to write :-)
Until last week I had a NevoSL, now I switched to a Pronto TSU9400.
Some projects I thought about integrating into my Pronto:
- weather forcast (was already done by someone else)
- EPG in "printed TV guide style"
- Live TV

The weather thing will not be that tricky.
The EPG project might be the hardest.

But now let's come to my running Live-TV Project (still Beta,... or better: Alpha stadium!)

I connected the video-output of my Dreambox (I dont't think you know this brand in the US, In Europe, it's a very popular PVR / Satellite receiver running open Linux with a very large community) to an USB video-grabber.
"Active Webcam 10" (great!!!), running on my small 24/7 mini-Home-Server, serves the actual TV image as a 240x180 JPG on http://[server-IP]:8080/capture.jpg
The software is so fast that you can view the TV image with about 15fps just by holding down Ctr+R (refresh) in your browser.
(Active Webcam offers a lot of different video streaming methods but for my Pronto project only single JPG images can be used)

A pretty small (in this stadium) Prontoscript downloads the captured JPGs continuously.

Here what it looks like: (Beta version)

final Version:

btw: my first uploaded youtube video :D

Nice video. Nice work.

As you have no sound capability, maybe you should enable subtitles with your video feed? TV with no sound IMO, is nice but not that valuable.

I guess security feeds might be a decent thing but TV?

It mas not really meant to "watch TV" with the remote but "check what's currently going on on channel..." and there are no subtitles submitten on Germany TV (exept very, very few selected movies).

but:
1.) it's a great and funny feature
2.) we can have an eye on our son (as you mentioned)
3.) I can check and program timers of the PVR
4.) I can read Teletext (also called "Videotext")
and
5.) it's a great and funny feature :-)
... you know...one of these "must haves, you don't need"

back to the sound issue: I could activate a small loudspeaker connected to the PVR (sure: senseless if I am in an other room with the remote)

Very Cool!

Would this work on 9600 too?
Do you share the code?

Sure, it would also work on a TSU9600.
Generally there is no problem exchaning projects between the 9400 and 9600. The only differences: 9400 has 240x320px display resolution, the 9600 640x480 and the 9600 can play wav files, the 9400 can not.
So normaly, if exchaing, from one to the other device, you have to resize the item dimensions to fit the screen.

I will post the code as soon as it's working really well. Currently I still have the problem that it stops updating the image after some time.
But if you are familar with Prontoscript, I am sure you can do this by yourself.

- Install "Active Webcam" on your PC (after several tests, I found out that this webcam-software has by far the fastest image server)
- let it grap a video source (USB/PCI Video grabber, TV/SAT/Cable card, Webcam...)
- Prontoscript: take the sample script for loading images from an online source and put it into a loop.
and: voila, you've got LiveTV on your Pronto

... show it to friends coming around... the coolness factor is awesome ;-)
"what do you mean with 'watching TV >ON< the remote' - you mean >WITH<, don't you ???" ... I love it *lol*

I'm not a Pronto fan; but that was really cool.

Any chance this could be used to capture the image on the PC screen?

Just thinking this one through but I alway thought it would be nice to display the Windows MCE screen on the Pronto and then just navigate via IR

@Wishmaster - wow, that's just great... You could use this as a preview of other channels why still watching the main program on the TV.
@calston
I am not really sure, but I think that you can configure some screen capture programmes to act as a webcam - might be worth a try
Regards
Andr�

Cool script Wishmaster !!

Looking forward to seeing it too as i think it will work great for CCTV footage.

Dean.

GREAT idea!
I just thought about a workaround that would do this job:
All you have to do is to connect the Video-Out of your Graphics Card to the video grabber and: voila, you've got a screen-grabber with webserver-jpg-capability:-)
(sure, native screen-capturing would be better but I don't remember that I've seen a software doing this, ...but if you find one, this would make it perfekt)

@darbyweb
what is "CCTV" ???

btw: planing to publish a working Pronto Project-file / Code this weekend.

so not only a PiP ("picture in picture") but:
... I think we just invented a new high-end Feature: PoR = Picture on Remote

:-)

walk in an electronics store and ask the salesman if he's got a remote having this new "PoR feature" you heard about! *lol*

NICE WORK!!!

Can't wait to test it on my Dreambox 7020 !!!

I suspect it is Closed-Circuit TV.

Sorry yes - closed circuit television.

Philips have a script that allows the Panasonic IP Cameras to show on the pronto which i guess uses similar techniques to yours. Its looks (to me a newb) quite a complex script as it allows actions like record/pan/tilt etc. as well as screen size changes.

Personally i'm keen to utilise a script such as yours that i could possibly create four instances of - each pointing at a different jpg image coming from a camera or capture card.

Dean.