Networking a TV tuner card

android6011 · 07-03-2006, 05:00 PM

I have an ATI All in Wonder VE card in my old desktop. I want to be able to use it on my laptop, but obviously I cant. So I was wondering if it is possible to get access to it from my laptop running linux, and use software to view the stations like VLC or Myth

johnson_steve · 07-03-2006, 05:36 PM

I'm using vlc to stream the output from my tv card over the wireless then vlc on the laptop to view the stream. then I use ssh to change channels. is this kind of what you mean? can you use the tv card with linux now? is it a v4l device? you could probably do this in myth or mplayer to but I'm using vlc. If this is what you want I'll post the scripts I use.

android6011 · 07-03-2006, 08:36 PM

yeah, that is exactly what I mean. Can you show me the script for changing the channels?

johnson_steve · 07-04-2006, 04:03 PM

This is the vlc command I use on the desktop with the tv card:

Code:

vlc -vvv --color v4l:/dev/video0:norm=ntsc:size=400x300:channel=0:adev=/dev/dsp:audio=0 --sout '#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,acodec=mpga,vb=1600,ab=128,venc=ffmpeg{keyint=80,hurry-up,vt=800000},deinterlace}:std{access=http,mux=ts,url=192.168.0.2:1234}' --ttl 12

for changing channels I just have a terminal open on the laptop sshed into the desktop and run:

Code:

v4lctl setchannel 24

but I'm sure you could put that in a script and tie it to some hot keys or something.