The Monsoon Vulkano lets you remotely access live and recorded TV on a wide variety of devices at a reasonable price, but does impose some compromises in quality.
Monsoon Multimedia has been making place-shifting set-top boxes—devices that essentially let you watch your own TV remotely—for several years. Monsoon offers three versions of the Vulkano.
The best you can do to record high-def p or i content off a cable or satellite box is to connect with the included analog component cables. The Vulkano also supports composite and S-video connections, but they are inferior in quality to component video. You can't stream live TV to two clients at the same time. For example, if you're watching TV on your PC and someone else wants to watch TV on their phone, they won't be able to unless you exit the PC application.
Recordings are named according to the date and time and they are stored as MP4 files a MB file is about 6min of video. We couldn't get the files to play back at their proper aspect ratio using Windows Media Player, but we had no problems playing the recordings through the Vulkano player. Recording duration can be set by you, or you can let it record only 10min by default.
The best part about the Vulkano Flow is that it makes it so easy stream digital TV over the Internet, either to another desktop or laptop computer or a smartphone or tablet device. It can forward the ports it requires automatically if your router supports UPnP, but even if it doesn't, the instructions are very clear on the ports you need to forward and which local IP address to use — we had to put them in manually for our Linksys X router.
Accessing TV remotely is then a matter of logging in using the app on your mobile phone, or logging in after downloading the app on your remote PC. The name that you gave the Vulkano Flow during the initial setup procedure is what enables the connection. You don't have to know anything about dynamic DNS settings or IP addresses; as long as your ports are forwarded correctly, the Vulkano Flow does it all automatically in the background. It's a great solution if you want to keep up with your favourite shows while you're working abroad, but you'll need to leave your Vulkano and router on at all times in this sort of scenario, and make sure the virtual remote control is set up properly and that the inbuilt IR blaster can switch the set-top box on and off at your command.
You'll need decent upload and download bandwidth in order to get smooth video, and you can change to a low bit rate in the player if your results aren't optimal. Overall, the Vulkano Flow is defintiely an interesting solution for distributing a digital TV signal to a computer, smartphone or tablet, either over a local network or over the Internet.
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When you initially launch the software you will be presented with the main viewing page. In addition to being your online TV screen, Vulkano PC Player has a number of features that enhance your viewing experience. Support streaming flv Video from your web site. Support wizard to create different style of web It provides you with the finest quality Video and audio playback.
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It supports the powerful playback control: play, pause, stop, step, skip forward, skip backward. It can display and configure all filters' properties during the playback of the Video. The list and played position saved automatically. The result is a box that promises to let you watch live high-definition TV and recorded shows on any screen including your smartphone's screen wherever you are. But it doesn't always fulfill that promise to perfection. Whereas most set-top boxes we've seen for instance, the early Slingbox Solo , the Roku , and the Boxee are squarish or boxily rectangular, the Vulkano is a thin slab about the size of a PC keyboard.
Monsoon offers three versions of the Vulkano. But because of copy protection technology for digital content, the Vulkano doesn't accept digital inputs. The best you can do to record high-def p or i content off a cable or satellite box is to connect with the included analog component cables. The Vulkano also supports composite and S-video connections, but they are inferior in quality to component video. Similarly, you cannot record 5.
What this means is that the qual;ity of video and audio recorded in high definition won't be as good as it would be over a digital connection--and you'll notice the difference if you've been using an HDMI connection to your cable box and switch to the Vulkano's analog connection.
On the other hand, if you're accessing live TV remotely, network issues related to streaming media are far more likely to degrade video quality than is the use of analog cables to move content to the Vulkano.
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