Broadcast TV

[Joel Jaeggli]

The decoders I know about, but the sigma encoder (dvr) doesn't as far as I
know(I'd love to be wrong).

joelja

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Bill Wimsatt wrote:

> 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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