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Streaming Your Cable TV Over the Net?

Posted by Cliff on from the taking-your-TV-shows-with-you dept.

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?"

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  1. streaming media by wcb4 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Windows Media Encoder also acts as a server. One version or another runs under just about all windows post 95. Its also free-as-in-beer and very easy to install and configure. Had it up and running in about 5 minutes.

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  2. Re:You want VideoLan by Dicky · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I second this - I use videolan, client-to-client, to send TV around my home network from a Linux PC to a Mac OS X Powerbook, over wired and wireless networks. I do it at high bitrate, high quality, but I'm sure it'd work fine at lower bitrate and lower quality.

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  3. What if a program posted TV straight to Usenet? by Dr.+Spork · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I always had this fantasy that one could encode 1-min chunks of encoded video from TV and auto-post it to a newsgroup as soon as the encode of the minute is done. This would be especially great if there was a plugin for a video player that could download binary attachments from a newsgroup as they come in, so you can start watching before the last minutes are uploaded, and the player itself would fetch them. That would allow near-simultaneous world-wide access to important TV programs.

    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.)