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satanskin
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 Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 12:25 am Post subject: Network streaming TV |
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| Is it possible to use MythTV (or something else?) and a server with a tuner card and have the TV streamed across the network? So that, for example, I could have my server record tv shows and whatnot, and when I wanted to could login over the network and watch TV programs through a MythTV client or something? Does that make sense? And if so, is that possible? |
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geeojr
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 2:14 am Post subject: Re: Network streaming TV |
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| satanskin wrote: | | Is it possible to use MythTV (or something else?) and a server with a tuner card and have the TV streamed across the network? So that, for example, I could have my server record tv shows and whatnot, and when I wanted to could login over the network and watch TV programs through a MythTV client or something? Does that make sense? And if so, is that possible? |
MythTV itself is very network aware - it can be easily configured to work in a server/client fashion. You can have multiple frontends (hooked to TVs, etc) working from multiple backends (TV tuners, etc). I have had pretty good luck using MythTV with one backend and multiple frontends.
ffmpeg's ffserver might be another option, though its streaming server has been broken in the past. You might need to use CVS.
You might also look at VideoLAN. Never tried it; but it claims to be "The streaming solution." Seems quite capable... |
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satanskin
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:46 am Post subject: |
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| Thank you sir! I'll definately look in to those more. Thanks again! |
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kiwi_uk
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| Also Kaffeine, VDR and VLC (and probably others) can do it although I'm not sure if they can do it for v4l sources and the like. |
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dundas
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 8:42 am Post subject: |
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I'm trying to do exactly the same thing, to stream a whatever video-in, (through tv tunner or webcam), and then try to have a streaming gentoo server to broadcast it.
anyone has some experience is making this happen?
I heard about the Darwin solution, but seems like it's removed from portage...
and videolan.org seems promising. but I can't find ebuild either(?)
http://www.videolan.org/streaming/
any advices are greatly appreciated!
p.s. to geeojr: did u set up MythTV to work as a network streaming server?or just displaying in multiple monitors?
thank you. 
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trilexx
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:13 am Post subject: |
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I'm running a mythtv backend connected to a wlan router. the frontend connect to the backend and here we go. using my notebook I can watch tv everywhere in my flat 
54 MBit are enough to stream mpeg2, or watch recordings transcoded to mpeg4.
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dundas
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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| trilexx wrote: | I'm running a mythtv backend connected to a wlan router. the frontend connect to the backend and here we go. using my notebook I can watch tv everywhere in my flat
54 MBit are enough to stream mpeg2, or watch recordings transcoded to mpeg4. |
that'z cool trilexx
but does it support multiple connections? and if it's mpeg 2, it's gonne be very bandwidth consuming. I hope to set up for at least 10 users.....stuff like that.
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trilexx
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hmm, as far as I know mythtv does not support multiple connections (yet). I hope this will be implented within the next releases.
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