[vlc] Re: PVR250 + 802.11g + VLC

[Phung Chi Kien]

Hi,
I very interrested in VideoLan in streaming live video for my security
project. I had the delay time about 2 ~ 3 s when I used V4L video capture
card (I think this delay time = encoding mpeg by ffmpeg at sending PC +
decoding mpeg by ffmpeg at receiving PC). Can you tell me about the delay
time due to the PVR250 encoding mpeg with the real live TV. I hope PVR250
can reduce the delay time a half at sending PC.

Phung Chi Kien
Automation Instituit
Hanoi, Vietnam

----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Edelbrock" <phil at Ren.netroedge.com>
To: <vlc at videolan.org>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 7:17 AM
Subject: [vlc] PVR250 + 802.11g + VLC


>
>
> Last week I took a chance at buying an 'OEM' Hauppage PVR250 from eBay
> (there are a couple vendors selling them at a 'buy it now' price of about
> $89+s/h, if you are interested). I popped it into my Linux box, updated my
> kernel, got ivtv, and managed to stream 8Mb live TV to my laptop via
> 802.11g (airport extreme, actually).
>
> Very cool!  A couple quick notes for those who might want to try it:
>
> - Make sure your kernel has NO bt848 support built in.  Some of the
> drivers in ivtv are tweaked versions of the bt848 drivers.  So, make sure
> you don't conflict with the stock kernel v4l drivers.
>
> - I had troubles getting the pvr module in vlc to work well.  Not to
> mention that it isn't included in the binary provided (you have to built
> it yourself).  But, this works just fine:
>
> cat /dev/video0 | vlc --sout rtp://192.168.1.1
>
> Loading on the server is almost nothing while streaming.  Use test_ioctl
> (in ivtv) to tweak the settings. I found 720x480 NTSC with a bitrate of
> 8,000,000 worked fine.
>
> It's also handy that /dev/video0 simply outputs an mpeg-2 stream, so you
> can simply capture video by doing:
>
> cat /dev/video0 > myvideo.mpg
> [cntrl-c to stop]
>
> And then just 'vlc myvideo.mpg' to play.  (Humm, makes it easy to set up
> chron jobs for program recording...but my TiVo already does a good job of
> that ;')
>
> I hope this might be helpful to someone.
>
>
> Phil
>
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