VLC with HW encoders

[cioris]

Did somebody try to use VLC with HW encoders? I have a Leadtek Walkie TV with MPEG1/2/4 HW capabilities and I would like to use VLC just to send over the network the HW encoded stream.
Did somebody use this TV card?

First of all I cannot select "none" for audio device. Audio is not required as the stream provided by the TV card contains both video and audio stream in MPEG4+MP3 format.

At teh same time it seems that VLC is not able to communicate with the TV card. I tried even to save into a file as "raw imput" and the file is empty.

Any idea?

Thanks

[VLC_help]

With Directshow it is not possible to use same device for audio and video. So you need always the audio device (which is the reason why DVB-T cards are using BDA architecture, which ain't supported in VLC). So ATM your card won't work right under VLC.

[cioris]

ok, so this is a limitation for DirectShow. What about using Linux? As far as I know, we have video4linux under Linux OS, right?
Can be Linux an alternative?