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Hi, I am quite a newbie to video streaming but I'm planning to start this tv streaming project and was wondering if videolan is what I need. Right now in the living room, I have a cable box, a tv and a PC. I would like to put the TV signals to the PC and then steam that content to other PCs in different rooms in the house. What do I need to achieve this? Do I simply buy a TV-In card for the PC next to the tv and then install videolan?

Any help is much appreciated!
Thanks-

that seems to be ok, you must check before that vlc can read your card's input :
check http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html

How do I check from that chart that the tv-tuner card that I am going to buy is supported by videolan? Arent most tv-tuner cards in windows supported?

Within Windows Yes, but not necessarily within VLC. Most of the analog cards are supported but many of the newer DVB cards are not. This may change in later releases of VLC

VLC uses the Direct Show drivers for the specific device to interface to your card.