[streaming] Re: [streaming]

[Alexis de Lattre]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2003, nati2000 wrote :
> Our idea is with minimum equipment with the ability  of scaling and upgrading
> (could you advise us the Tv tuner, DVB card, Mpeg ecoder, decoder) and your
> software to organise live TV brodcasting for 20-50 clients.

If you want to stream unencrypted satellite or digital terrestial TV
channels, the VideoLAN Server can do that very well, and your set top
box should accept it. It only requires standard DVB cards which cost
less than 150 euros each !

> If we?ll use PCI DVB adapter how we can watch smartcard-protected
> channels. Or do we need to buy standart receiver with SmartCard and
> use TV-tuner to encode signal to MPEG-2.

The problem is that we don't support the streaming of encrypted
channels... if you want to do it, you will have to decode and re-encode
the stream.

> Another question is billing. Does your software have any billing and,
> if so, what functions it provides?

There's no such functions in the VideoLAN software, but you can always
find a solution for that... it depends on how you want to stream the
channels (unicast / multicast) and how you do the sessions
announcements.

> Needed configuration of signal transfer:
> Satellite dish or TV antenna -> PCI DVB or TV-tuner -> MPEG-2 encoder -> MPEG-2
> Stream -> LAN -> STB?s MPEG-2 Decoder -> TV or monitor.

For unencrypted satellite or terrestial TV channels, it's :

Satellite dish or TV antenna -> PCI DVB card -> LAN -> STB -> TV

There's no need to decode end re-encode !

-- 
Alexis
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