Streaming Your Cable TV Over the Net? 61
johnrob asks: "I have a TV tuner card, and would like to run a daemon on my computer which will stream the tv signal (reduced resolution) over the network. The idea is to poke a hole in my home firewall, and be able to connect to my static IP from any wired place in the world and watch my cable/satellite tv. Here is my question: does anyone know of any software that will take a tv card as an input and serve streaming content to connected clients (i.e. real media, windows media, or some other client)? Or, perhaps there is a specific TV tuner card which comes with this software?"
SnapStream (Score:5, Informative)
Re:SnapStream (Score:4, Informative)
Might do, lots look like they merely record for later viewing...
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Home+Video+Serv
The fifth [digital-lifestyles.info] and sixth [pcmag.com] results look like something you would want to investigate for sure!
Most, however, appear to be geared towards serving a local network. This makes alot of sense considering the bandwidth problems over the public internet as opposed to a slick local connection ala 100Mbit switch.
Re:SnapStream (Score:1)
Re:SnapStream (Score:2)
I used Snapstream a couple of years ago. I was pretty darned happy with it. Assuming it's still fundamentally the same today, I think you'd like it.
Re:SnapStream (Score:2)
If you have a Hauppage card and don't mind Windows Media, I think Snapstream will do exactly what you're looking for.
Re:SnapStream Beyond TV 3 (Score:2)
The software is fairly user-friendly (as in "non-technical user"), but you have to dig around a lot to get to the technical settings (directories, ports, video and audio quality settings, etc.).
It has decent PVR functions (which is actually why I bought it). It doesn't do TiVo like prediction, but you can easily se
Re:SnapStream (Score:1)
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You want VideoLan (Score:4, Informative)
VideoLan [freshmeat.net]
VLC (VideoLAN Client) is a multimedia player for Unix, Windows, MacOS X, BeOS, and QNX. It can play most audio and video formats (MPEG 1/2/4, DivX, WMV, DV, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, etc.), has support for VCD and DVD (with menus), and can read streams from a network source (HTTP, UDP, DVB, etc.). It can also act as a server and send streams through the network, with optional support for transcoding.
Re:You want VideoLan (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:You want VideoLan (Score:2)
Re:You want VideoLan (Score:2)
I use this to stream from my fileserver currently, and just recently found a version compiled for tivo that lets you stream from the saved shows.
MythTV (Score:3, Informative)
I do essentially what you're asking, but inside my local net. One machine has a TV card and does all the recording. I also have a MythTV client on a laptop with a wireless card that can be used to watch anywhere (including "Live TV").
streaming media (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:streaming media (Score:2)
watch your outgoing bandwidth though... you can saturate it really quick with any streaming media.
Re:streaming media (Score:2)
(eg MPEG2 over RTSP)
Only only Windows Media (yuck).
power (Score:2, Informative)
This sort of thing requires a lot of juice
However, there are things that mitigate that
I would like to see this done well
Is it Legal? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Is it Legal? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Is it Legal? (Score:2)
There is an issue, the license provided by broadcasting service to you.
Fundamentally, any copy of the work is an infringement: but upon paying for the satellite service, you agree to terms & conditions that include a limited license, which (you need to check) probably only allows you to view on one or multiple TV sets within your own premises: any reproduction of the
Re:Is it Legal? (Score:1)
Re:Is it Legal? (Score:2)
I'm not sure about the US position, but I doubt that this 'technicality' would be a good one to rely on.
Re:Is it Legal? (Score:2)
Re:Is it Legal? (Score:1)
I would reason that the term broadcasting refers to a one-to-many situation. This is just a forwarding issue. If the poster ensures that only he can access the stream, then *I* don't see any issues here.
Too bad it's probably illegal somehow, though.
Re:Is it Legal? (Score:1)
Re:Do you really want that kind of trouble? (Score:1)
Icecast (Score:3, Informative)
Is it legal? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Is it legal? (Score:2)
Before I lapse into a profanity laced flame/troll post, johnrob, share with us your motivations and justifications behind doing such
Re:Is it legal? (Score:1)
using windows to do this (Score:1)
AAlib (Score:2)
Strange how streaming, capturing, or even using Video over a network is overlooked on retail software. I'd love a retail version of xbox media player that can capture (timeshift)video.
I did this about 5 years ago. (Score:1)
I think I even use to connect to my desktop with terminal services as I moved on in life and OSes and used video editing software to tune the station and watch the video and listen.
Silly things we come up with, no?!?
Re:I did this about 5 years ago. (Score:2)
I can't wait to try it when I get home.
on the Mac (OS X) (Score:1)
http://www.macworld.com/2004/06/secrets/junegee
What if a program posted TV straight to Usenet? (Score:3, Interesting)
This would be especially great for sports, like various national soccer league games. Real soccer junkies want to watch, for example, Dutch league games, but they don't tend to be broadcast outside of the Netherlands. (Of course, I'm thinking about this because I'm trapped in the USA without pay-per-view during Euro 2004, and I'd love some prompt online posting.)
Re:What if a program posted TV straight to Usenet? (Score:2)
Re:What if a program posted TV straight to Usenet? (Score:1)
Re:What if a program posted TV straight to Usenet? (Score:2)
Re:What if a program posted TV straight to Usenet? (Score:3, Informative)
Sorry.
Too lazy for words... (Score:2, Flamebait)
Geez, why can't these lazy buggers do a google for themselves (hell, he has a GMail account after all), took me all of 2 minutes effort to find this out for myself when I wanted the same thing for my home network... It was quicker than filling out an Ask Slashdot and waiting for it to be accepted:-) And why do these lame-o's NEVER say what OS and or hardware they have??? Or if they want free stuff vs being willing to pay???
Anyway, to answer the question, if you have Linux, try MythTV with all it's nice
Clarifying my intentions (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Clarifying my intentions (Score:1)
I've done exactly what your doing to a pocketPC (audiovox thera) and an IPAQ with card for verizon wireless 1X network. I had to keep the bandwidth below 100 k for reliable data, but wm9 codec was able to handle it.
I was able to watch ed, edd, and eddy, while going over a remote mountian pass. made the trip bearable.
good luck and if you need pointers on wme let me know.
Windows Media Encoder (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Windows Media Encoder (Score:1)
Re:Windows Media Encoder (Score:2)
Darwin Streaming Server (Score:1)
NSV streaming (Score:2, Informative)
ffmpeg/ffserver (Score:1)
Off topic a bit.. but (Score:3, Informative)
Using a BTTV card in the linux box to do it.
works well
ChiefArcher
ffmpeg (Score:2)
VLS (Score:2)
See http://www.videolan.org/streaming/ [videolan.org] for more info.
SageTV (Score:2)
Check out SageTV [www.sage.tv]. It's pretty much a Tivo wanna-be, but it has both a client and server. I have the server running with two Hauppage WinTV 250s and clients running on various computers at home. I'm able to watch both any channel/program either on live TV or recorded. Connecting to the server from outside isn't a problem. When I'm bored at work I'll set up recording schedules or check on what shows have been recorded for the day.
The hard part is going to be bandwidth. At "
MSI TVAnywhere Master (Score:1)