I currently use VLC (videolan.org). You can control the broadcast according to your bandwidth constraints.
-r -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad Templeton Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 1:22 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Different Recording Profiles for differentFrontends On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 05:53:17PM -0500, Jason Donahue wrote: > Ok, I admit this should go under the "MythTV to the Extreme" category, > but if you've seen My Myth Setup then this wouldn't sound that bizarre. > > I want to be able to stream live TV to my Office. I use Linux as my only > OS at work, and have installed MythTV on my machine. I also have a vtun > tunnel to my home, so the master backend is accessible by it's internal > IP. I can launch Myth, and it connects, and everything works great > except for one thing: My upstream at home is not fast enough to sustain > a video feed. I have cable Internet access that advertises 1Mbps > upstream, although I am not currently getting that (I am working with > them to get the upstream I am paying for). What I would like (if it's > possible) is to define a VERY low quality Recording profile, and have > that used for Live TV for the Office Frontend. I have to say this doesn't sound very satisfying. Of course part of the gospel of HD Video Recorders is you don't watch live TV. Once you get it out of your head that you want to watch live TV, your real solution to this is rsync. Put another slave backend/frontend at the office. Transcode the programs down to a reasonably decent size -- you can get something that's quite watchable in 2 megabits with mp4, perhaps even 1.5 megabits. Then start rsyncing the shows to your office frontend. If you do it in advance there is no waiting to watch. If you want to do it shortly after transcode, you might have to wait for a while before you start watching. But you would be getting decent quality. I guess it would be possible to do live transcode and stream down to 800 kilobits with enough CPU (you have to stay under your megabit to deal with temporary slowdowns, especially on cable modems) but do you really need it now, now, now?
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