GETTING STARTED WITH STREAMBABY

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• If you don't already have Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.5 or later installed you need to do that first. You can download latest JRE from here:
• http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp
• Download latest streambaby installation zip file from downloads page
• Unpack to a fresh folder somewhere
• Edit streambaby.ini file and at minimum you must define at least 1 top level folder under which your video files are located (video files can be in any folder structure you like). For first entry use dir.1=xxx for second entry dir.2=xxx etc. Lines starting with a # character are comment lines. Example:
• # Top level video shares
• dir.1=c:\home\dvd
• dir.2=f:\videos
• NOTE: Make sure you have at least one dir.1=xxx line in the configuration file, and make sure it does not start with #. Lines starting with # are ignored
• Now you are ready to run the application. For windows double click on streambaby.bat or for Mac/Unix systems run streambaby script. For windows you will see a console window similar to the one shown below. You should leave this console window running.

NOTE: For windows if double clicking on streambaby.bat does not work it most likely means you don't have java.exe in your windows path, so you have 2 choices:

• Add full path to folder containing java.exe to windows PATH environment variable. As an example for Vista 64 this would be something like: C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin
• To edit environment variables in Windows go to Control Panel-System-Advanced-Environment Variables and then look for Path entry under System Variables. Then add a semicolon followed by full path to java.exe on your system as in the example given above (will vary depending on your particular OS).
• Alternative to the above is to simply edit the streambaby.bat file and replace java with the full path to java.exe, for example: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe"

• On one of your Series 3 Tivos go to Tivo Central - Music, Photos & Showcases and scroll down all the way to close to the bottom and look for Stream, Baby, Stream item:

• Once you select or right arrow that item you are presented with Top Level screen:

• Select or right arrow one of the top level entries and then you can navigate the folder structure and select a video of interest:

• Select or right arrow one of the video entries to enter Play Screen:

• For Quality selection if this video can be played back natively there will be a "Same" choice which means play back video as is without transcoding it. If the bit rate is too high for streaming in real time or better you can choose a lower quality rate which will transcode to mpeg2 and stream at that bit rate.
• Here is an example of pause during playback:

Consult the remote_button_summary wiki page for details about all the remote control functions in selection screen and playback screen modes.