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[moviewatcher]

OK, I want to be able to stream live video (and audio) from one VLC computer to another.

I understand that VLC currently does not support audio streaming from my Hauppauge 250 or 350 card. I've tested this with my 350 and its true -- no audio. A shame since the video quality rocks.

I also understand that VLC *does* support analog cards. Since I am not capturing the stream, I figure an analog TV tuner card should be fine.

Can someone confirm the above?

Finally, if the above is all true, what analog cards are actually supported under a VLC/WinXP computer? I need to stream a live TV signal from this box to a VLC client on my local 10/100 LAN.

Thanks!
Moviewatcher

[Gibalou]

VLC should be able to stream the audio from the Hauppauge PVR cards just fine.
At least this has been reported to work on both Linux/Windows.

As for which analog cards will work... well all cards with a DirectShow compatible capture driver _should_ work. However there has been reports of some problems with a couple of cards (one was a version of the ATIW and an another was with an nvidia card... sorry I don't have more details).

[moviewatcher]

This is the thread I read which basically says it is not supported. I am wondering if anyone can confirm this - I can't get it to work either, so I am really messing something up or VLC really can't do it.

viewtopic.php?t=613&highlight=audio+stream

Thanks...

[Gibalou]

As the author of the plugin I think I can assure you that it is supported

However I only have access to one testing device. As said above, a couple of people have reported the DirectShow input of VLC to have problems with their devices but unfortunately without access to the devices in question I haven't been able to track down the problems.

The other grey area is regarding the audio/video synchro. I didn't do much testing on this thus there might be problems there.

[moviewatcher]

Cool - I didn't realize you wrote the plugin!

OK, here's the scoop (and I am willing to send you a card to test if you need it - I don't understand what you meant by only having one device):

1. PC1 "server" has a PVR-350 with VLC for Windows installed - Win2kPro OS. DirectX9.0b is installed on PC1 as well.
2. PC2 "client" has just the VLC client.
3. PC1 runs VLC and selects the Streaming Wizard and chooses the Hauppauge under video input (I need to click Refresh first to get it to show in the combo-box).
4. For audio input, I only get DEFAULT, NONE, and AVANCE AC'97 AUDIO (after clicking Refresh). Shouldn't the Hauppauge show up in here too?

I've now tested using both DEFAULT and AVANCE with and without transcoding turned on - all without luck.

The video comes right up and is awsome, but no audio. I can't get the audio to play locally on PC1 either - although it plays fine when using the Hauppauge TV app that came with the card. Video plays choppy on PC1 but that's OK as I intend to stream it to PC2 anyway.

Further, I have tested a PVR-250 and PVR-350 on a Win2kPro and WinXP Pro server. No combination works.

I'd love to get this working as I have a plan to connect this to a DVD changer for a real kick-butt media server.

Thanks!
Dave

[neotintinn]

Hi,

I don't have a PVR 250/350 card but I would like to buy one. My project is to use it to stream live a/v content from a camcorder, video goes into the video input of the hauppauge card & audio through the line in of the sound card.

I wonder if you have experimented something similar like this, what was the quality, a/v synchronization, video performance if streamed to a vlc client ?

regards.