ITunes and mpeg2 streams

Hi,
I was instructed to create a Television solution for our students hostel that enables every resident to watch tv with his computer. Currently we grab the channels with dvb-s cards with vlc in vlm mode, which creates a sdp file for the Darwin Streaming Server, which serves the stream in a quicktime compliant way. With Quicktime 7 (mpeg2 plugin installed) you are able to watch the streams. However, this is an inconvenient way for the user, cause he has to enter the stream URL every time. My intention is to provide a playlist for ITunes and use it as client software. My tests with ITunes revealed that it is neither capable of playing infinite mpeg2 streams nor even to play the provided samples from the Darwin Streaming Server via rtsp. Does anybody know a solution for this Problem? Are there any ITunes developer present who maybe could fix this shortcoming in future ITunes versions?
Yours sincerely,
hbwinther.

iTunes cannot natively play MPEG-2 content and I've never seen any way to force it to do so. If you want to use iTunes as the playback application, you'll probably need to provide the content into a format iTunes can play (h.264 is probably the most efficient codec, but requires all users to have QuickTime 7).
Another alternative is to provide a URL on a web page to the live stream, direct the URL to a reference movie for the stream, and code the page to launch QuickTime Player with the stream. Then it's just a single click for your students. Either way, I'd suggest if possible that you provide the content in a format other than MPEG-2; that's not a particularly efficient codec by modern standards and, of course, requires that every student purchase a copy of the MPEG-2 Playback Component (unless you've acquired a volume/site license from Apple).
Are there any ITunes developer present who maybe could fix this shortcoming in future ITunes versions?
The iTunes developers do not participate here. If you want to submit a suggestion to Apple, use the iTunes feedback page. But I'd be surprised if MPEG-2 playback is ever added to iTunes.
Regards.

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