[streaming] Re: HDTV streaming and playing with VLC

[Benjamin Pracht]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005, Ilan hamami wrote :
> 
> Hello VLC streaming forum
> 
> I would like to use the VLC for streaming HDTV content over a wireless
> 802.11g network. I have tried to play few clips but the quality was
> lower then playing them with WMV, mainly when the clip is more dynamic.
> 
> Can you suggest the h/w-platform I should use: CPU power (I'm using PC
> platforms); Screen card; Other.
> 
> Does the VLC support high quality HDTV streaming and playing.
> 

VLC should be able to play MPEG 2/4/AVC HDTV streams (even WMV3 on
windows). The required CPU power to decode these kind of streams of
something like an Athlon XP 2200+ for MPEG2 1080i. Keep in mind that
such streams can have a very high bitrate (20 Mbit/s for MPEG2 1080i,
which is too much for 802.11g).

-- 
Benjamin Pracht

-- 
This is the streaming mailing-list, see http://www.videolan.org/streaming/
To unsubscribe, please read http://www.videolan.org/support/lists.html