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<Nittaku> wrote in message news:<3fbdf70c$0$21182$ba620e4c@reader3.news.skynet.be>...
> > You will probably need to do this backwards, find the streaming
> > solution you want to use and THEN determine what it's compatible with,
> > and THEN determine the system specs needed to do it.
> 
> What streaming options do I have? :/
> 
> > Why not just put a tuner card in the remote system(s)?
> 
> The only place we have TV-coax-cable is where the TV set is currently
> standing. 10 feet away is a table with the wireless 54g router on it and
> printer connected to a LAN port of the router. Since I was planning to get a
> new computer, I was searching for uses for the old one. I thought of placing
> it under the TV table, connecting it to the TV and to the router somehow,
> and watching some tv upstairs, or at least getting an idea of what show's
> are on :)
> 
> I have no experience in PC-TV linking/hardware/software or streaming. So I
> came for help here...

I'm not sure whether you want to encode AND stream realtime, or just
encode, THEN stream.... The latter could be accomplished with any ATI
or Hauppage VIVO card encoding realtime into MPEG2 - it's really quite
good quality; you will have control over the bitrate, down to about
1170 Mbit/min. The file sizes would be about 0.5-1 Gbyte/hour. That'd
be about VCD quality; good enough for some (but still very
blocky/blurry - I'd suggest a low DVD rate like 3000 mbit/min). You'd
have to find some kind of serving software; you could "publish" your
video to an intranet website, then serve it with your desktop to the
client computer as a streaming video.

However - I note that you have WiFi 54G - don't expect it will be fast
enough to stream any reasonable video at all - the actual transfer
rate isn't 54 Mbit - it's more like 22 Mbit total. You'd need at least
a 100 Mbit wired connection to stream a reasonable video. You could
encode (using something like tmpeg, I guess? I don't know) into the
Microsoft Media format; at about the 128-512 Kbit/sec (ie ISDN to low
broadband) setting it might stream ok.... but it'll be very small on
your screen!

Good luck in your search! 
ECM