Please Help! TV Streaming

[vlcdna]

Has anyone got a Capture card with WinXP to Stream sucessfully? I have tried two different cards with different (and unsucessful) results. They play, but no streaming. I know there is a list of working capture cards, but I would like to STREAM the TV to other computers on my LAN. I can stream video files, just not TV. I can watch TV, just can't stream it. It is very frustrating. I am almost ready to go and get a SlingBox or something.

Thanks.

[just-do-it]

I got a huppague 150 mce to stream OK - at first I only got about 2 seconds at 300Kbps upload then I changed my ISP and got 2Mbps upload (cheaper!!) and 'the bowl of life' was overflowing with cherries
Chris

[vlcdna]

What kind of settings do you use? I have been to sites that refer to GraphEdit filters, talk about pin656, etc. etc. in order to get this thing to work. There are also problems with audio it seems. Can't they just make something that works!?

It seems that the 150 is pretty much the same as my 1600 except that the 1600 has onboard MPEG-2 decoder. Is this the problem?

[just-do-it]

settings that worked for me are - oneline batch file because I am a 'dosey person

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"C:\program files\videolan\vlc\vlc.exe" dshow:// :dshow-vdev="Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture" :dshow-adev="SB Audigy Audio [E480]" :dshow-size="" :sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=250,width=350,height=275,fps=20,deinterlace,acodec=mp4a,ab=256,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=display,dst=std{access=http,mux=ts,dst=192.168.2.5:8085}}

the video bit rate (vb=250) is low because I was 'seeing if it worked' and onece it did I made frame height width and vb bigger.
Most of my problems with tv stemmed from the fact I was trying to stream over the net and my isp only had 350Kbps when I did this.
Over my LAN I got 4Mbps and that was quite watchable at 1024x768...
Chris
PS i should say this was VLC0.8.6d although I have upgraded to 9.9 and it works ok to stream RECORDED mp4s so I SUPPOSE it will be no problem - Press the 'GO' button
http://just-do-it.no-ip.org/_video/THE_ ... ntrol.html

[vlcdna]

Thanks for the settings. Unfortunately I couldn't get it to work. I wonder if my computer is just not up to the task and therefore can't crunch the stream very well...it is like 4-5yrs old. I have been spending a lot of time on this project, and I am not quite sure when to call it quits.

Thanks for your help!!

vlcdna

[just-do-it]

You may be right about the old pc
For your info the one that I have that streams tv is a 3GHz single core pc
The actual stream is relayed to the web via a 1GHz single core machine that is the same vintage as yours and that struggles...
Chris