Just been handed an interesting little problem at $DAYJOB - redistribution of free-to-air TV signals to people's PCs. Basically, da bossman wants to be able to capture TV programs of interest and feed them to interested people - in realtime.
It's that last part which gave me pause. Sure, it's easy enough to capture a program and MPEG it, then stream that around, but trying to send it to people's desktops immediately feels to me like it'd suck rather hard. Thankfully, we won't be storing this stuff anywhere, and it's only going to be over an internal LAN, so bandwidth concerns aren't paramount. Anyone had any experience in this area, or even in the more general area of video streaming? I'll be using Linux servers, but unfortunately the clients will almost certainly be SatanWare 2000 Pro. (Another morning of "fixing" it's problems hasn't given me a positive outlook). My video capture experience is nil; I've never had a need to do it, but it looks like it wouldn't be too hard to grab the stuff, it's just the realtime distribution that's going to cause the grief... - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
