Replacement for digital SAT receivers ?

[kaufmann]

Hello together!

I'm asking myself, if a project like Videolan, maybe together with commerical set top boxes (like from amino) is ready to be a real alternativ or replacement for a conventional digital SAT TV installation?

With a conventional digital SAT TV installation i mean something like this:
- One SAT dish with a SAT switch-matrix for 4 or 8 SAT receivers.
- star topology with 75ohm SAT coaxial cable from the switch matrix to every room.
- A digital SAT receiver in every room. And a TV to watch the program.

Is something like this also possible with a videolan solution? What restrictions do i have? Must the end-user have knowledge about the technique, or can he simply choose a program with a remote-control?

I would like to install digital SAT TV in our house. Every room already has a 100Mbps switched Ethernet connection. At the moment i'm thinking about a Streaming solution without conventional SAT cabeling. My plan is to have one videolan server after the dish with about 2 or 3 PC-card receivers to be able to stream up to 2 or 3 different programs. But i have more than 2 or 3 end-users. The end-users are using this server only from time to time, so i don't think i will have more than three program requests at the same time. But i don't want to have fix programs for every stream. The end-user should be able to choose between all digital tv-programs. I would also like to install set top boxes in some rooms because some end-users don't have a PC or PC knowledgement.

Could someone please explain the dynamical stream allocation?
Is it possible, and if so, how does it work?

Thanks in advance.
Michael

[boskovuk]

Well,
this is amazing topic and possible solution to the problem would be quite interesting.

Is the videolan solution an answer to two outlined questions:
1.
would each TV box (in different room) be able to connect to the videolan server through LAN?

2.
would each TV/user be able to choose between different programs?

tia ...

[The DJ]

1 : yes
2: no