ECS-TV Install Guide

Very Quick Install Guide

Ensure IPv6 is installed on yoru machine and that you have a gloabal address starting '2001:630:D0'. NO?
Install Mozilla Firefox browser.
Install VideoLan Client including browser plugins, note these may need to be copied to the plugins directory of your browser

Tuning In
    Live:
      Graphical: Type the address of the channel (eg. bbc1.zepler.tv) in the udp/multicast box
      Command Line: Type vlc udp://@channel

    Interactive:
      Click th ECS-TVi link and follow on screen instructions

Part 1 - Base Application Setup

Welcome to the ECS-TV Base install guide, the following sections outline how to get your workstation set up ready to take advantage of all available ECS-TV services.

You connected from IP 38.107.191.119,

Installing IPv6

Check you IPv6 connectivity on the command line:

# ping6 ford.6core.ecs.soton.ac.uk

Install Guides:

Windows XP

Linux

Mac

    Linux:
      Requirements: Any distro running kernel 2.6.4 or above.

CHECK 1
    For most distributions of Linux IPv6 will be installed and present in the kernel, providing this is a 2.6.4 kernel or above. The instruction below outlines how to check that IPv6 is present on your machine.

As root type:

# ifconfig

We are then looking for the following line in the ethX section, note the actual address will be different. If this exists you are installed and ready:

inet6 addr: 2001:630:d0:f111:230:48ff:fe72:7d08/64 Scope:Global
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

CHECK 2

From check one see if your ethX controller knows about IPv6, check for the line (again address will very):

inet6 addr: fe80::230:48ff:fe72:7d08/64 Scope:Link

If this line exists you are set up but you are not on an IPv6 enabled part of the network

CHECK 3

If you are at this stage IPv6 is not installed on your box. Note this next bit is k=only know to work on Redhat/Fedora but may apply to other distro's.
RedHat/Fedora: Open /etc/sysconfig/ with a text editor.
Add the following line and save the file:

NETWORKING_IPV6=yes

Restart and check with CHECK 1 and CHECK 2

Debian: IPv6 is included in the latest kernels, use apt-get install to retrieve the latest kernel.

CHECK 4

Support for IPv6 may be built as a module, as root type:

modprobe ipv6

Again use CHECK 1 and CHECK 2 to see what changes these commands have made.

Installing Mozilla Firefox

The following are only quick reference guides relevant at time of writing please refer to the official firefox site for more detailed guidelines on installation

Windows & MAC:

See the official firefox site for an official installer download.

Debian Linux:

Use apt to install the latest version:

# apt-get install mozilla-firefox

Other Linux:

See the official firefox site for an official installer download.

Installing VideoLan VLC

VLC media player is a very powerful media player able to perform all the functions needed to take advantage of the full range of media provided by ECS-TV. VLC is still under high development and ECS-TV recommends you keep up- to date with the latest versions of VLC. An install of version 0.8.4 is recommended (no official release at time of writing however nightly builds are available here). The following provides a guide on how to install VLC (subject to being relevant to the latest versions).

Windows:

Download the latest version of VLC from the VideoLAN site. Run this installer and follow the onscreen instructions to ensuring that the firefox plugin is installed at the same time. Note: The activeX plugin provides a plugin for Internet Explorer, however ECS-TV does not officially suport content in this browser at this time.

Providing VLC can find your install of Mozilla Firefox (i.e. It is in the default) location it will automatically copy accross the required files for the plugin. If this isn't done then the 2 files in the VLC/Mozilla directory need to be copied into the Mozilla/plugins directory.

Debian Linux:

Use apt to install the latest version:

Stable:
     # apt-get install vlc
     # apt-get install mozilla-plugin-vlc

Unstable (latest nightly build):
     Add "deb http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/sid-i386/arch ./" to /etc/apt/sources.list
     # apt-get update
     # apt-get install vlc
     # apt-get install mozilla-plugin-vlc

Other Linux:

It is recommended that a binary release of VLC is found from your distributions package tree, compiling from source can take some time (i.e. >6 hours to get right). If manual compilation is not an option all libraries are available from the official VideoLan site. The following is a guide command for the ./configure operation.

# ./configure --enable-x11 --enable-xvideo --disable-gtk --enable-sdl --with-ffmpeg-tree='path to ffmpg compile' --enable-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg-mp3lame --enable-mad --enable-libdvbpsi --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-libmpeg2 --enable-dvdred --enable-dvdnav --enable-faad --enable-dvbpsi --enable-mod --enable-vorbis --enable-ogg --enable-theora --enable-faac --disable-mkv --enable-freetype --enable-fribidi --enable-speex --enable-flac --enable-livedotcom --with-livedotcom-tree='path to live compile' --enable-caca --disable-skins --disable-skins2 --enable-alsa --enable-kde --disable-qt --enable-ncurses --enable-mozilla --enable-wxwidgets --enable-release --enable-x264 --with-x264-tree='path to x264 compile' --prefix='install path e.g. /usr/local'

MAC:

See the official VideoLan site for an installer download. Note:Nightly builds for the MAC are also available.

Other Systems:

Installations of VLC for other systems are available from the VideoLan website.

Part 1 - Base Application Setup