Broadcast a TV signal ?

spree · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 10:13 am Post subject: Broadcast a TV signal ?

Hi,

i have a tv card (pinnacle pc tv race), which works really fine with tvtime. I can also record picture&sound with mencode.
What i want to figure out is wheter i can broadcast a television picture into my lan...
The protocol doesn't matter, but is there an easy way to do it?

thx

regards,
Matthias

CheshireCat · Guru Joined: 25 Aug 2002 Posts: 572

I've never done this myself, but videolan has a streaming server (no idea if it can capture TV tho), and ffmpeg does as well. You could emerge ffmpeg and vls and see if either can do what you want.

MythTV is a bit larger of a package, but it might also do what you need (I'm not sure exactly what you want to do). IIRC MythTV supports streaming video from the backend (with the capture card) to a frontend on another computer. As a bonus, you get PVR functionality in addition to being able to use it for live TV.

spree · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 10:56 am Post subject:

hi,

thanks for your reply.
i know mythtv, but i couldn't get it working here.

My intention is to create a streaming video signal that can be watched with a "normal" media player in the lan. It should also be viewable with windows pcs.

I'm in a students home, which's LAN is connected to the LAN of the polytechnical university i attend. During work there, it would be cool to watch certain tv programs (like sports live-broadcasts).
There's no problem with my university...

As an idea, i thought about the nullsoft streaming video, which can be watched with winamp (and xmms) or realvideo (which is comercial i think), or windows media (with linux? ...)

thanks!
Matthias

CheshireCat · Guru Joined: 25 Aug 2002 Posts: 572

VideoLAN server, maybe? The client runs on just about everything (I use it to play DVDs at work, since the player that came with the drives in our new computers is broken). I don't know if VLS will do the capture/encode part itself, though. Ffserver might be able to serve a stream that you can view with something on windows, but I don't know :-)

MythTV will definitely not do the trick if you want win32 clients. I'm on the dev mailing list, and there's some activity going on now with work on a win32 frontend, but I'd say it'll still be a little bit until it's ready.

spree · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 4:44 pm Post subject:

okay, i just got a look through the vlc stuff...

the problem is, that i want something similar to shoutcast/icecast streaming... a live stream, which you can join anytime you want...

vlc just offers the option to multicast, but i don't think that's possible here...

for my "project" i will need a streaming server - is there something useable?

thx,
Matthias

spree · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 9:04 pm Post subject:

hi!

i just wanted to mention, that everything works perfectly with ffmpeg & ffserver

i now have an 900k asf stream (video+audio) which is really stable and great to watch!

greetings,
Matthias

CheshireCat · Guru Joined: 25 Aug 2002 Posts: 572

Glad to hear it works! You're using WMP as a client on windows, then?

spree · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 10:45 pm Post subject:

yes i do, but it works with any player (like bsplayer etc...)
on linux i tried it with mplayer, and it works perfectly

Great thanks to you my friend!

AresTheImpaler · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 143

Ok, I'm trying to do share my tv. Tried vls, but it doesnt support v4l yet (it's in cvs). anyways.. could you help me out with ffserver. I don't know where to start....

jef0113 · n00b Joined: 10 Nov 2003 Posts: 37 Location: Be

same here , the doc's from ffserver are not clear to me ,
can you post your ffserver.conf please

thanks , jef