Re: remote DVB watching ?

[Kassian Plankensteiner <kassian.plankensteiner@aon.at>]

Carsten Koch wrote:
> 
> Kassian Plankensteiner wrote:
> >
> > Hi, i got a few questions and I hope someone can answer them.
> > I got my DVB card in my firewall/server and want to watch Astra Digital
> > TV from INSIDE the network, is this possible ?
> >
> > My LAN looks like this.
> >
> > INTERNET <- Server (DVB) <---> Linux workstation
> >
> > The workstation is masqueraded and squid'ed for EON access.
> > Is there any chance to run something like gVideo on the Linux
> > workstation to watch TV from the DVB card in the server ?
> 
> I do not think you can run gVideo on the server and redirect
> its X window to the Linux workstation using the DISPLAY environment
> variable, because AFAIK gVideo uses an overlay created by the
> DVB card to display the video, which can obviously not work in
> a remote X window.
> 
> What you CAN do is: use Klaus Schmidinger's vdr
>    http://www.cadsoftusa.com/~kls/vdr
> to record video files on the server, copy the files over the net
> to your local linux workstation and display them there (convert
> them from PVA to MPEG and use any MPEG viewer to watch them).
> 
> > The tuning doesn't have to come from the workstation, i can tune from
> > the server, that would be o.k.
> 
> Yes, but be aware that the DVB card cannot receive two transponders
> at the same time, so when you tune into a TV transponder, you cannot
> receive data (from EON or whatever) and vice versa.

I wouldn't need data while watching TV, that would be ok.

> 
> > The easiest way would be to link the workstations /dev/video's to the
> > servers /dev/video's but i guess that's not possible.
> 
> sure it's possible. You would have to find a software that plays back
> PVA without a DVB card, though. If you find (or make) such a thing,
> you could do a
>       rsh server cat /dev/video | "pva player"
> (assuming that your LAN is fast enough).

That throws up another question:
What's the average bandwidth of a normal Digital TV stream ?
--
As far as I understand you can watch the /dev/video output with any
video4linux application (read: xtvscreen) .... Am i completely wrong
here ?
The (0.05) gVideo readme states something like 'gVideo replaced
xtvscreen as a program to combine watching the stream AND changing the
DVB tuning' ....

Kassian
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