Streaming TV over Local Network?

[Lotheron]

I would like to use my TV Card in my PC to stream video so that I can watch it on my laptop. I know the quality won't be the same, but I want to see what my options are. If anyone knows what programs I can use so that I can stream mpeg, avi, or anything using my tv card throughout the network, that would be appreciated. Would like to be able to use WMP to watch the stream.

 

[titanmiller]

Thats a tough one. I dont have any specific software recomendations but I would guess that you will need to set up some kind of web server on that computer and then access the stream through a link on a web page. The computer with the card will need a powerful processor to encode the video in realtime. Once you find the correct software all you should have to do is get it to be able to see the capture card, compress the video and send it out as a .asf file that you would then link to in a webpage.

 

[Tal]

this sounds like a Windows Media Streaming server type of thing. You'd only get one channel unless you have a set top box, and then you'd still have to change the chan on the setup top.

 

[Lotheron]

Alright, then can anyone reccomend a software package for a streaming server? Something that doesn't take too much CPU, and yet free or cheap.


Thanks

 

[vss1980]

You can get Windows Media Encoder free off of the microsoft website. It supports real-time capture and IP-broadcast features (as long as your hardware can handle it - you probably wont be able to do full size frame capture and will have to settle for a resolution around VideoCD size).
If you do use it, I recommend that you do not use Windows Media 9 for the video compression as older WMP versions seem to have a problem with it - WM9 audio compression seems to work fine though.

You can grab it here.

 

[dnoyeb]

Havent seen this yet. Looked a year ago, closest thing I could find was a room to room wireless AV transmitter from radio shack...Its non computer.