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.