RE: [misterhouse-users] OT: video/audio distribution

[Gray, T. <Tim...@ca...>]

It could be done, but mp3 is audio only so you would have to encode to a
mpeg 2 stream or if you dont care about video quality mpeg 1.

As for the machine, it needs LOTS of horsepower, and a good hardware mpeg
encoder card. converting audio and video realtime AND streaming it is not an
easy task. and then you are stuck with whatever the video source is set to.
changing channels will require an IR signal repeater system or writing your
own Ir blasting protocol and client software for your computers.

Look for video streaming projects on sourceforge or freshmeat. that run
under linux.  I believe such a task is outside the scope of abilities for a
microsoft based operating system...  I have never seen a live video
capture/streaming product ever offered for windows.

Note, you are not going to get fullscreen streaming video. the last time I
tried videolan from www.videolan.org a 640X480 video stream with stereo
audio saturated a 10 base T network and bogged down all machines involved.
mpeg4 will make it easier for the network but dramatically increases the
load on the server.

Basically it's not an easy task and you really need to be a linux guru to
get it working well.


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Sobel [mailto:bs...@vi...]
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 1:06 AM
To: mis...@li...
Subject: RE: [misterhouse-users] OT: video/audio distribution


A related question;

Does anyone know of a network based video distribution?  I would like to
(ideally) run the output from one of my Satellite boxes into a 'magic
little box' that encodes it and dishes it up as an MP3 stream so that
machines in the house can tune in a 'watch' the output stream.  My ideal
'magic little box' is standalone (e.g. low power), not a full p4 rig
setup to do this.

Anyone know of anything like this?

Bill



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