Broadcast TV

[Bill Wimsatt]

The Sigma chipset has Linux drivers as well as the Philips TriMedia.

Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Jaeggli [mailto:joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 12:35 PM
To: vlc at videolan.org
Subject: Re: Broadcast TV


On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Henri Fallon wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 18, 2001, Janssens Erik wrote:
> > I have a TV card in one computer
> > Could I use videoLAN to broadcast
> > the TV signal over my LAN ?
>
> You will then need to real-time compress your tv stream, which is not
so
> easy under Linux.

hardware mpeg encoder support under linux is a bit hard to come by... we
were working with the folks at futuretel for a while on getting together
a
linux driver for the futuretel primeview ns($1500) but since they've
gone
out of business it's rather less of an issue now...

from a tv capture card (hauppage for example) about the best you can do
in
real-time and high quality is motion-jpeg compression in software. which
can produce bitstreams as large as 30Mbit/s for full d-1 , which might
be
acceptable on a lan connection...

>

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