[vdr] Re: Video over internet

[Christian Berger <einStein@donau.de>]

"Gernot A. Weber" schrieb:
> 
> > I do not run videolan. Videolan is MPEG2, that's HQ video, I'm talking
> > about reasonable bandwidth video, and that can be done with Cisco's
> > mp4live package (or however that's called). Or Realplayer and maybe
> > ffmpeg. But realplayer is not open-source.
> > The problem is, Videolan probably just forwards the video stream. That
> > means you have to have realiable 4Mbits/sec which only some universities
> > have.
> 
> Ah, I see. But my DVB-machine is only a PII-300. Do you think it's fast
> enough to code the MPEG2 streams to another format?

Well the card already decodes the MPEG2, compressing might work since
you only need a few fps for low bandwidth video. It doesn't need to much
CPU capacity

> Bye,
> 
>    Gernot

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