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What Intel machines is the VLC running on (working)?

I am looking for minimum requirements, so the lower the machine you tried and got VLC running properly, the better.

Isn't this an imensly stupid poll? vlc runs on lots of other hardware than intels, and the minimum hardware requirements depends to a very large degree on what you want to use it for

Yes, I'm shure it runs on quite some different systems, but I'm interested in Intel systems which are the ones I use.

Secondly, let's define the use:

Streaming from an external video and audio source in MPEG2, full screen, 4 MBits/sec.

OS: Linux.

Isn't this an imensly stupid poll? vlc runs on lots of other hardware than intels, and the minimum hardware requirements depends to a very large degree on what you want to use it for

Keep cool sigmund

I think this is a great question.

I have an old 200 MHz i386 machine with a RIVA TNT card w/ TV out. Could I expect to do anything decent with VLC? If I could get VHS quality streaming I'd be happy. I have higher-powered boxes that could send the stream on my 100 Mb Ethernet LAN.

I'm not sure what you are expecting, but the most CPU intensive part (decoding) is always done on the client side.

I would love to have several cheap harddiskrecorders (not necessarily in on machine).

So what I would like to build is:
- several PI-166 machines with an mpeg encoding card in and a small linux version and an ethernet card.
- one or more high level machines with fast HD (scsi) that can record several streams from some of these "cheap" streaming machines located in a central location.
- Meanwhile be able to show these streams om several locations in a congreshall (audio and video) va multicast..

I'm quite convinced that we could do all that with VLS and VLC, but I'm not shure about the hardware minimum specs.

I did find for VLS PI-166-32MB as a minimum ... I did not yet try to do any calculation regarding the network bandwidth ...

VLC does not support hardware encoders or decoders, so a P1 will never do

as long have your card is able to output a vaild MPEG stream on a device, we should be able to stream it... This has been tried with Haupaugge PVR 250 cards and Kfirs under linux. In fact, we have a pvr input on VLC, that can has the ability to set this cards correctly without using any external program...

This has never been tried, but a P166 could be enough to stream (we have been using up to 3 PVRs in a single PII 400.

Could ou please report any success (if any) with any other kind of card ?

Does your PVR function work with all Hauppauge cards? I think they all use the same type of MPEG2 stream, and if you don't supply a special driver it should work?

Any plans for PVR support in windows?? I'd think that most TV cards for PC's will soon be based on Mpeg2 encoding IC's.