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Hi,

i have a question.I want to send my tv card or dvb card or webcam screen from network to another computer and watch it from the other computer on the network.

Can i do both sending and receiving by using vlc?

Please help me or how can i send it acroos the network

I've got a similar situation... and AiW tv card on my server, and a laptop running around the apartment... it would be awesome to get tv streamed to the laptop... Any hints on how to get this going?

Thanks!

VLC should be OK, though there can be problems with wireless streaming -- not all wireless cards and routers "play nice".

If at least the fixed server PC can be hard-wired to an access point (if that's what you have in your home -- a wireless router), that might be a good thing.

I would probably try with an ACK'd protocol, like mmsh, and make sure the caches (buffers) are set large to handle the vagaries of wirelesss a bit better.

If you are trying to stream a standard .mpg movie, you are probably OK trying to stream it as-is. If you are trying to stream a DVD, the bandwidth is probably too large for wireless, use Transcoding to knock it down to something like a DIV3 video at 1 Mbps, mp3 audio at 128K (per channel), with ASF encapsulation.
vlc C:\Movies\species1mbps.asf :sout=#duplicate{dst=std{access=mmsh,mux=asfh,url=:1234}}
is what I would use for a movie already encoded at a fairly low rate., on the server side.

I don't have a tuner, but a framegrabber. If I wanted to stream my framegrabber, I would use:
vlc dshow:// :dshow-vdev="Osprey-210 Video Device 1" :dshow-adev="Osprey-210 Audio Device 1" :dshow-size="320x240" :no-dshow-config :no-dshow-tuner :sout=#transcode{vcodec=DIV3,vb=1024,scale=1,acodec=mp3,ab=128,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=mmsh,mux=asfh,url=:1234}}

vlc mmsh://server_IP_address:1234 :http-caching=3500 is what I would then try from the client.

If the above succeeds, you could try cutting caching down a bit