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I have been experimenting with transcoding SD video (480i/480p resolution). My test source is a commercial DVD with a nice high bitrate. I can stream this exact DVD bitstream to the clients (about 7mbps) and it looks perfect. When I try to transcode to h264, the maximum bitrate offered by VLC is 307...

This is correct. Most of our local digital stations have no subchannels, so the main video stream is about 18.5mbps per channel. I would like to transcode this to about 7mbps AVC in realtime if this is possible.

Is is possible to transcode and stream just one stream of 1080i DVB-T/ATSC to 1080i H.264/AVC in realtime in software using just a fast CPU? If so, what level of CPU would I need? Is this possible with an Intel 3.0 GHz Core2Duo?

I use both Slackware and Ubuntu, and I'm having tons of problems trying to get ffmpeg+VLC to compress and stream realtime, live video input using my Osprey 210 capture card. VLC itself doesn't even see the card as an input source. After several days of trying to get this working and tons of searches...

Motion JPEG isn't a very good for streaming. If you do the math you will find the bitrate is pretty high for even low quality, low framerate videos. Many camera companies have used M-JPEG because, well, their cameras already support JPEG. But it was once a professional video editing format. I was do...

I have been experimenting with streaming via VLC on (Slackware and Ubuntu) Linux for a few days. I have no problems using VLC to stream my existing AVC/H.264 files. I am having moderate success using an Osprey 210 analog video+audio capture card to record uncompressed to the HDD. However I would lik...