Vu+ Player
Vu+ Player
is an Android app designed to allow control of and streaming from your Vu+
Satellite receivers, either from home, or from a remote location. Although
designed for the Vu+ range, it should work with any satellite receiver
compatible with Enigma2.
There are
three main purposes for this app:
1 - As a
substitute remote control while viewing TV. The receiver can be placed out of
site (and IR remote range) and this app used to control it.
2 - A means
of watching your satellite receiver on a portable Android-device at home. Note
that this will occupy the tuner on the receiver and lock it. If you however
have a receiver with two or more tuners, then you can stream an alternative
channel and watch a different channel to the one displayed on the connected TV.
In this case, watching the streamed channel has no effect on the one being
viewed.
Selected
receivers such as the Vu+ Solo2 have a transcoder
function. This will enable streaming, even of HD channels at a lower bit rate.
This function is experimental and still under development.
3 - The
ability to view a receiver's output (stream) while away from home. There must
be a very good upload speed from the receiver location, and good download speed
from the viewing location. The experimental transcoding
ability of some receivers can be used at an advantage in this situation.
There is a built-in player (Internal Player) used by default and with OSD (On Screen Display) so there is no need to download and install a separate media player. If you prefer, you can of course use any media player installed on your Android device. However, the Internal Player offers many advantages such as channel change, selecting audio tracks, video quality and video layout while watching a stream. Also available EPG-information will be shown.