[Yr7-10it] Video Streaming

[Roland Gesthuizen]

G'day Paul,

I have had some fun using a LeadTek USB
DTV-dongle<http://www.leadtek.com.tw/eng/tv_tuner/overview.asp?lineid=6&pronameid=231>to
capture / record / timeshift / view Digital TV broadcasts onto a hard
drive. The unit cost about $90 and is quite easy to use. Add a 200 Gb USB
external micrdrive and you have a collection of bits that fits into one
hand.

Kids are being entertained in South Australia with some ABC broadcasts and
family movies. Although there is a backup and archive advantage copying
digital media to a 4 or 7 Gb DVD, with the HDD price falling I have been
keeping and reusing these digital files. Now the home TV is the bottleneck
although I know of some friends that built a Linux box to make up their own
home entertainment system.

I had forgotten about VideoLan .. now there is a good idea :-)

Regards Roland

On 22/06/06, Dr Paul Chandler <paul.chandler at yvg.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> Listers,
>
> Has anyone played with video streaming, using something like VLC (
http://www.videolan.org/)?
>
> I've been playing around with video capture (progressively copying a whole
lot of home movies from VHSC tape to DVD).  Bought a medion USB grabber on
special from Aldi - works very well.
>
> My mind started to then think about streaming (basically seeing if I could
connect the USB device to any other application which may vaguely be useful)
... it could ... I discovered VLC in the process ...
>
> Now I'm wondering if I can actually do something
useful/interesting/education with it!
>
> Ideas?!
>
>
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
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