Hello,

i have just tested the shoutcast Server with NSV video streaming for winamp.
I thought if it might be possible to use it to let mythtv stream ?
As far as i know, mythtv saves the last x seconds of actual tv channel in a file. is it possible to take this file as input and stream the tv over the net ?

so i could watch tv without tv in my working room over the net or watch it on my pocketpc ?
what do you think ? has anyone ever tested streaming tv with mythtv ? anny ideas ?

thanks,
the-FoX

You can't stream this video over the Internet. The sheer size of MPEG2 is just too large.

If you are talking about over your LAN, then it is possible. In fact that is how I watch my live TV. The only video transport mechanism is ethernet not coax, etc.

well ethernet can run over coax if you are an old fart like me you remember the old coax ethernet, and at 10Mbps it should be fast enough to handle mpeg2.

Not that this is really relevant, but just thought I would pipe in.

but where can i get the input stream for the stream ? does anyone knows where the mythtv encoded tv is placed on harddisk ?!

tv capture card --> mythtv encoder --> stream encoder --> stream server

I would think that there would be a way to stream live tv over the Internet, but it would have to be redirected from Mythtv or something needs to be changed. Check out Videolan. I vagely remember reading a post where someone was trying to do this with it. Videolan will re-encode the video to a lower bitrate (lowering quality) so it can pass through an Internet connection. At the very least it will re-encode movies that have already been recorded and transmitted to the client on the Internet (this much I have witnessed).

This may be more work than you had in mind, but it is worth mentioning.

Heh! What about the *original* coax ethernet - about as thick as your thumb and you used 'vampire' type tap devices to add a node onto the backbone cable?

lol yeah the old thicknet, I remember that.