Re: TV and PC

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From: Nittaku
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 17:18

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> 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!

I found this in a Hauppage FAQ:

http://www.hauppauge.com/html/stream.htm

Comments on this? Will it work? Possible problems?

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