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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

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.

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?