> 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
Mate uses the Myth TV (www.mythtv.org) and loves it. Can be set up as a virtual VCR and u can "g-code" it to record /encode shows to the HDD, or real time stream without capping. Multiple channels can be achieved thru multiple capture cards. The whole works. Another one he mentioned was VDR (http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/) Hope this helps. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
