Streaming Your Cable TV Over the Net?

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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SnapStream

[kalidasa]

I'm pretty sure this does it, depending on what video card you have. Look for "Home Video Server".

Re:SnapStream

[sycotic]

Might do, lots look like they merely record for later viewing...

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Home+Video+Serve r%22

The fifth and sixth 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.