[dundee] How to stream TV card audio & video?

[James Le Cuirot]

On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:31:13 +0200
Mirosław Majka <mirekmajka at o2.pl> wrote:

> Hi,
> this is my fist mail here, so don't flame me for starters!
> 
> Now I had this idea that I could ssh to my home computer in Poland. I 
> have a TV card there and its perfectly configured and setup to use 
> TVtime for a lot of TV channels. My first idea was:
> - let's export DISPLAY=myCurrentIPinDundee:0
> - set xhost + on my Laptop here
> - run tvtime remotely to send video to my X server here
> That didn't work. Maybe some issues with granting rights to the
> server. I didn't even go further to transmit sound when a friend of
> mine told me that I could just emerge (I use Gentoo there and on my
> laptop) some kind of streaming server that would acquire both video
> and audio on my PC in Poland and later I could connect to it with
> some kind of video player like mplayer.
>     I have no idea what kind of software install there and how to 
> configure it. I've read some info about MythTV but I have no idea if 
> this will work. I would appreciate any suggestions on how to get FREE
> TV in UK :) (beg my pardon, who the f*** invented this TV licencing
> sh**?? The most retarded idea I have ever heard of)
> 
> Cheers, TayLUG!
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Mirek :)

Hi Mirek,

That's an interesting project. It might just work though I'm sure you
realise that you'd probably only be able to view it at quite a low
resolution due to the bandwidth involved. My first suggestion would be
VLC. This is both a client and server package. I haven't used it much
myself so I can't give you any details but I think this is your best
bet.

I recently started watching satellite TV through a DVB-S card using
MythTV. It's really awesome! :D I'm still having some teething
problems since MythTV can be quite tricky to get working properly, even
for a very experienced Gentoo user. It's worth it in the end though.

I'm afraid there currently aren't any exceptions to the TV licensing
thing. I don't have a problem with paying for some of the stuff I do
watch but also having to pay for stuff I don't watch or listen to, such
as any of the BBC's radio stations, is rather irritating. The system
needs an urgent reform.

Good luck,
James