Spoofing the Samsung Smart TV Internet Check

Re:Spoofing the Samsung Smart TV Internet Check by esonderegger on Sunday April 20, 2014 @10:19AM (#7616835)

I tend to agree with you, with one minor exception. If you're going to put an ethernet jack on a TV anyway because people seem to like having Netflix apps on their tv, I'd love it if there were some basic "dumb" software as well, like an RTSP/RTMP client.

At work, we have five of these Samsung Smart TVs and if I want to get a video signal from my control room on to one of them, I have to send it via HD-SDI into the main video router, then run coax from the router to the tv, then use an SDI to HDMI adapter (the cheapest of which is the monoprice $100 one). The picture ends up looking great, but it doesn't exactly feel like 2014.

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Re:Spoofing the Samsung Smart TV Internet Check by kalleboo on Sunday April 20, 2014 @11:17AM (#7617015)

> I'd love it if there were some basic "dumb" software as well, like an RTSP/RTMP client.

No DLNA?

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Re:Spoofing the Samsung Smart TV Internet Check by esonderegger on Sunday April 20, 2014 @07:48PM (#7618935)

Thanks for suggesting DLNA! (Stuff like this is why I keep coming back to HN)

I spent the afternoon trying various different approaches with my Sony Blu-Ray player that has DLNA support. It appears to only want to play files, not live streams. That said, I haven't exhausted all options yet and will have more tools to test with at the office. And from a video engineering perspective, RTSP/RTMP or even HLS as native formats would be way easier.

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