What TV Tuner for streaming with VLC?

[PeterM]

Hi all, this is my first post. Have today downloaded VLC for Windows and installed on two XP computers on my home network.

No problem to stream a MPG file from one PC across the LAN to another PC. Picture and sound are good.

My target however is to send a signal from a VCR (VHS quality picture and stereo sound) connected to a TV Tuner card on PC1 to PC2.

I'm using a Leadtek DV2000 PCI card with newest drivers. The card appears in the DirectShow menu and I select it there.

Also my soundcard appears and I select it.

With the software that came with my Leadtek card I can capture video and audio from the VCR connected to the card - so all the cabling and settings should be OK. (Close this software before I start VLC.)

Whatever I tried I was not able to stream the video/audio feed from the VCR to the 2nd PC.

Now my questions:

* Is there anything I might have overlooked?

* Is maybe my TV Tuner card no able to do this? (Not a Directshow card, WDM driver.)

* If I wanted to buy another card that is compatible with VLC, what would be recommendable?

[PeterM]

[dionoea]

i don't know about windows but hauppauge pvr 150/250/350 work fine with VLC on linux. Any tuner with direct show support should work with VLC under windows.

[PeterM]

Thanks for the reply!

Saw references to the Haupgauge cards. Found it in general hard to find cards that were certified "directshow" compatible.

[PeterM]

Have been away over the Xmas period...

Anyone using a TV Tuner card for streaming life video with VideoLAN?

If yes, what card do you use?

Have tried to find TV Tuner cards that are specified as "Direct Show" but have not really found anything. The Haupgauge 150/250/350 cards are available in Australia but they are PCI and I'd prefer a USB unit to be able to use on a laptop...

Any input is appreciated!

[Grumpa]

Greetings PeterM: I have been using the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 with VideoLAN. Works great - streams great.

[PeterM]

Thanks for the reply, Grumpa.

The Haupgauge USB is around AU$ 450 - was hoping to find something cheaper... I need only basic quality.

[PeterM]

What TV Tuner's are you guys using for streaming life audio/video?

I'm wanting to use the composite input on the card.

People have already pointed me to the Haupgauge products, but is there something cheaper available???

[tonsofpcs]

If you want ultra cheap, check pricewatch.com, but hauppauge products are tried and true.

[Guest]

What TV Tuner's are you guys using for streaming life audio/video?

I'm wanting to use the composite input on the card.

People have already pointed me to the Haupgauge products, but is there something cheaper available???

Then ATI Wonder cards are the way to go.

I stream my video cameras using ATI Wonder cards with the Coxeant driver.

Now the real issue is how to get more quality pics....

I wish someone would write a how-to on optimizing your video streaming once you got the server running and your streams out to the net.

I found that streaming is easy once I took the time to find the right combinations of posts on this forum (which is very very good by the way).

[popper2]

vlc crashes my broktree bt878 pixelview composit/tv card
(all 0.8* versions) its a shame really as Dscaler produces a GREAT
picture with it, so the drivers both inside dsaler and the original drivers
are working fine.

it seems that vlc is the problem anyone know of a fix i might try ?, as i want to muticast live tv to any of my wireless 11g machines around the house.

as a side note id love to see someone make a vlc plugin/merge
for dscaler so we could take advantage of al the pre/post processing dscaler has
THEN transcode that output to a muticasting session.

[dirkucs]

Hi PeterM,
if these cards are that expensive there, why don't you order some here in Europe. I had to stream several videos for a conference and used the Haupauge analog cards like WinTV PCI, WinTV Primio and same. Got them on Ebay for around 10€ each. I have now 5 cards i will sell on Ebay next week, perhaps you just buy one there!

Btw these cards are the cheapest around in our place!

Regards Dirk

[e6964822]

Hi to all,

I want capture video and transmit it over my LAN for my job.

I have: Hauppauge pvr150.
Windows XP
VCL

I want that the card compress to mpeg2 for get this and send over LAN.

However this does not work.

Some people can send precompresed mpeg2 over LAN in windows...

I must chance of capture card? Is problem of VLC new version?

Thank you very much.

ps: Please help, me my boss is angry with me. Because I can't do it since a lot of time.... I'm .

[tonsofpcs]

Now the real issue is how to get more quality pics....

Don't try sourcing from analog TV systems for computer viewing if you want high quality. SD TV is low quality, and most consumer TV sets don't even display all of that quality!

[tonsofpcs]

However this does not work.

What exactly did you try?

[e6964822]

However this does not work.
What exactly did you try?

I want use the Hauppauge pvr150 at work and I can stream mpeg2 off
the device without transcoding.

Is it possible with other card like pvr350. And it is possible in Windows?

Thank you very mush

[e6964822]

With pvr 150 I can't stream the video capture decoded by the card.

My LAN go with multicast. We can send video with the following MJPEG format.

I tried to send with mp2v for use the mpeg2 card compression. And take errors come:

dshow error: can't use device: none, unsupported device type
dshow error: can't open audio
ffmpeg error: cannot open encoder
stream_out_transcode error: cannot find encoder



or if I try to send to multicast without transcodification for try to use the card compression to.

main error: cannot add this stream
main error: cannot create packetizer output (YUY2)
main error: cannot add this stream
main error: cannot create packetizer output (s16l)


If I buy the PVR350 I can use the mpeg2 encoder of the capture card?

Thank you very much.