[vlc] Re: DVB streaming using VLC - Lower Bitrate

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 08:30 +0200, Clément Stenac wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It won't be feasible to transcode the whole transponder at once, it
> would require tremendous power.

K.

> 
> What you will probably want is to have a lightweight frontend server
> that has the card and receives the DVB stream. This server will use the
> duplicate module to split the stream and send the elementary TS streams
> to a park of transcoding machines. These machines will do the grunt work
> of transcoding each stream.

			   
Sat->MythTV/Freevo/PC->VLC(dup)--> Heavy Machine for transcoding->Relay
out to other servers->clients

Is that the flow you mean			   

> I think a high-end machine can transcode 3 or 4 streams.
Thanks

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