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<Nittaku> wrote in message
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> Is there an easy way to send tv programs over a network. Something like
>
> TV -------- PC1 with TV-tuner-card (hardware
> encoding?) ------LAN-------other PC2
>
> Is this possible? Any ideas or things to pay attention to? System
> requirements of PC1? Etc...
>
>
TV cards work by creating a bitmap image from the TV signal and then using
DirectDraw load this image into the display RAM. This happens 25 times a
second (in Europe, 30 times in US and some other places).
What you need is a software player that also encodes it into a streaming
format and broadcasts it across LAN. Such software is indeed being developed
for the consumer market. UK's digital terrestrial TV card maker Nebula
Electronics http://www.nebula-electronics.com is due to release its first
version at the end of this month for their own DTT cards. Nullsoft have a
free add-on for Winamp called Shoutcast that streams audio across LAN
http://www.shoutcast.com/ , video will hopefully follow. There are other
projects going on as well and I'm watching them as that's what I want for my
home too.