by Charles August 28, 2022, 8:48 amWatching TV without a TV – the option has become increasingly attractive since there are TV cards, live TV apps and mobile projectors.Or a Fritzbox cable.Because it also has an integrated DVB-C tuner, with which you can access the live TV program on your laptop or even your smartphone in the home network.We will show you how to set up and use the program for you:To watch TV via your Fritzbox Cable, you must first activate the Live TV function in the user interface.You can do this via the browser on your PC or smartphone:Because the Fritzbox is restarting, your WLAN is not accessible for a few minutes.You may need to reconnect your PC or smartphone to the WLAN of your Fritzbox afterwards.Once reconnected...After 5-15 minutes, the channel search is complete and – if everything worked – has found TV and radio channels from your cable provider.In the menu above "Live TV" you can see which transmissions are currently active.You can run up to four streams at the same time, i.e. watch TV on four different devices at the same time.In "Channel List", you will find the programs that your cable provider offers you.Here you will find channels in SD and HD quality.HD has the highest resolution and gives you a better picture:In the next chapter, we will show you how to watch channels on your PC.Perhaps the easiest and cheapest (because it's free) is to watch cable TV via the Fritzbox cable with the VLC player on your PC or Mac.In short, the VLC player (original name: Video LAN Client) is an open-source, donation-supported player for almost any video and audio format imaginable.It works in its own version for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android or iOS.On the Fritzbox, you first download a channel list, which you can then open on the VLC player:You can zap by clicking on “<<” or “>>”.You terminate the program by clicking the stop button or simply quitting the VLC player.Important: If you close VLC player, you will probably have to transfer the channel list again the next time you start it.To do this, simply drag and drop the channel list onto the main VLC player window again.So do not delete the channel lists once they have been downloaded.Your name is:Tip: If you don't care whether you see stations in HD or SD quality, you can also drag the two station lists one after the other into the main window – and the radio programs as well.VLC then simply expands the channel list and you can switch between channels.By the way, if you plan to watch TV or listen to radio this way every day and use the VLC player, a small donation to the non-profit project would be fair.We mentioned it briefly above: your access to cable TV usually also gives you access to certain radio stations.You can also use the Fritzbox cable to listen to the radio on your PC or laptop.In the TV on PC chapter, we described in detail how it works for TV channels and radio stations.Here again in a nutshell are the instructions for the radios:You can also zap here by clicking on "<<" or ">>".Clicking the stop button ends the radio program.Watching TV with the Fritzbox on your smartphone is even easier than watching TV on your PC.Because the Fritzbox provider AVM has developed the Fritz App TV for this purpose:As you can see, it's much easier than our method with VLC player on PC.AVM simply put SD and HD channels in a handy overview and opens the channel lists from the start.You can zap here by pressing "<" or ">" on the left and right of the video window.You end the current program when you return to the station overview or exit the app.For this contribution and the associated tests, we consulted the AVM service.We have the following communication tips for you:You can also watch TV with the Fritzbox via a DSL or fiber optic connection – if you have the right provider and the right service for that.According to AVM in August 2022, this only works for Telekom or Vodafone DSL connections and only if you have booked MagentaTV or Vodafone TV services.The configuration then works as described in our chapter Configuring the DVB-C tuner and then using live TV on the PC or live TV on the smartphone.Only the menu item for live TV may be in a different place on your Fritzbox, for example at the top of the horizontal menu next to "Fritz NAS" and "My Fritz".© 2022 - Netcost-security.fr.All rights reserved Contact Legal Notice