LAN: multicast MPEG-2 stream from DVB-T source

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Hi,

I'm looking into buying a DVB-T device (PCI or USB) with onboard MPEG2 encoder to multicast an MPEG2 stream over my LAN using the VLC Player. I'm currently using VLC Player to stream DVDs and am curious to know if it's possible to share DVB-T that way as well.

Thanks!

[squid_80]

Using Linux: Probably.
Using Windows: No.

[emmel]

I'm not sure if I fully understood the question (the encoding part), but it is possible multicast the stream over LAN with "standard" DVB-software. Maybe not with VLC on Windows, but there are other programs. For example DVBViewer can do that for you.

[squid_80]

I should have said if you're using windows make sure to get a card with a BDA driver. WebScheduler is a pretty good program for live DVB streaming between windows PCs.

[shakey]

There's a program called ProgDVB that can do it too. If uou have DVB-T it can broadcast the current channel over the network. If you have DVB-S then it can actually broadcast the channels on demand, so different people can watch different channels at the same time :) (at least that's how I understood what it says in the manual).

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Thank you very much for your responses. I'm currently running XP Pro, Ubuntu Edgy Eft and Suse 10.2. shakey, thanks for the ProgDVB (http://www.progdvb.com/) heads-up; will check this out.