Fraid I tried to tackle the same problem a few months ago and didn't quite get the desired results either. I ran into the same problem where I had to compile the latest version of vlc with all of the extra goodies myself. I also ended up ripping out the ffmpeg packages from Ubuntu to get some things working. Of course my problem was that I was trying to dig into a streaming video that was being broadcast in some kind of crappy windows streaming format and not from a TV tuner so I hope you have better luck.
As for MythTV, it is a wonderful product and it does streaming really well. If you are recording a show and then streaming it, the MythWeb package offers streaming or downloading. If you are wanting to just stream live TV, there is a package for that as well and I know I have seen talk about hooking up other frontends clients to the stream (eg so you can have vlc as the client and not install mythtv frontend) but I have never tried doing that so I am afraid I can't give much help on that one. Good luck! -----Original Message----- From: Stephan Seitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 3:44 PM To: debian-user Subject: Streaming with Debian Testing Hi! I have two Debian systems in the same network running Testing. One of them has an analog TV card (Philips Semiconductors SAA7134/SAA7135HL Video Broadcast Decoder). I can watch TV with kdetv without problems using V4L2, but normally I'm not using this system directly. So I tried to stream the video with vlc, but every example I found in the net seemed to use a codec not available with the Debian version of ffmpeg (patent problems). The multimedia repository contains a non-free version of ffmpeg, but not of vlc. So how can I stream one TV channel to my other system? An example command line is greatly appreciated. Someone from debian-multimedia suggested mythtv which I will try the next days, but from the description I come to understand that mythtv is a complete video recorder. It may be a little oversized. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | PGP Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/pgp.html | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
