[streaming] Re: How to tune a DVB-S card?

[Benjamin PRACHT]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004, Josef Wolf wrote :
> > - As http server with --sout '#std{access=http,url=<host>:<port>}'
> > -- Clients connect with vlc http://<host>:<port>
> > - As multicast server with --sout udp://239.255.1.1:1234
> > -- Clients connect with vlc udp://@239.255.1.1:1234
> 
> But won't the first vlc incarnation grab the card and make the second one
> fail to grab the card?

If you want to stream a whole transponder, you should have a look at
this post:

http://www.via.ecp.fr/via/ml/vlc-devel/200405/msg00086.html

> 
> Hmmm, I thought what I want is a very common thing.  But now you made me
> very uncertain.  So let me explain what I'd like to have:
> 
> I have a dish with 4 LNB's connected to a 17->4 diseqc switch.  The
> diseqc outputs are connected to four DVB-S cards in a single PC.  Now
> I would like to be able to watch different programs from different
> rooms (cellar, loft, sitting-room, sanctum).  The client should be
> able to choose the channel with something as simple as
> "mplayer http://server:1234/CNN" or some such.
>

The easiest in this case will certainly be to use either udp multicast,
if there are a lot of clients and if you want to use set top boxes (you
should consider using VLC as a client in that case) or http (you'll need
to adapt the command line giver in the post earlier a bit in that
case...)

-- 
BigBen

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