[streaming] Re: VideoLAN and DVB-C ?

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Benjamin Pracht wrote:

>On Sat, Apr 23, 2005, Neil Miles wrote :
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I was hoping to stream the local cable TV channels with vlc preferably 
>>transcoding from mpeg2 to mpeg4. But unfortunately I see after looking 
>>closely that only DVB-S/T are supported.
>>
>>I could of course use DVB-S as the same channels are available on 
>>Satellite, but is there any particular reason why dvb-c is not supported 
>>(technical?). Is there any other solution out there? I looked at 
>>linuxtv.org but seems to be focused mainly on STB/PVR type stuff.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>well, AFAIK, DVB/C is supported by the dvb input... It might be quite
>untested though... (try the dvb-c://... shortcut, although the card type
>should be autodetected only using dvb://...)
>  
>
You must use dvb-c:// to force DVB-C selection. The card is not 
autoselected, dvb:// defaults to Satellite (DVB-S).

Greetings,
Jean-Paul Saman

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