streaming an OTA HD signal

[slyguy42o]

I want to install an HD antenna and a capture card.. something like this.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... llFullInfo

and then push channels through serviio to my TV's.. I am inclined to think I may need to setup my capture card to record the shows I want to want then transcode them for serviio.. but I was hoping they could be pushed directly from the card.

is this possible? has anyone done anything like this?

[grolschie]

If you are running Windows (Vista or newer), and also have an Xbox 360, then Windows Media Center will mostly likely do this for you and more. But doing this through DLNA would be cool also.

[slyguy42o]

I do have those req's but I wanted to try and push something through serviio as I don't have xbox's in every room.

I did some more looking last night and found this

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6815116037

Which costs a bit more, but it's got a mpeg2 encoder, I am thinking I could have the card record whatever into a folder that is shared with serviio.

So far it doesn't appear to be possible to stream a channel directly off the card.

[jhb50]

Play tv on the PC then use Serviio to stream your desktop to the TV. See the wiki for how.

[slyguy42o]

interesting thought, but I could only stream a single channel at a time and it would take quite a bit of CPU power to accomplish this.

I actually already have a analog tuner in one of my servers.. even though analog is no more.. I use it occasionally to convert vhs tapes... I figured I could try a few things to see if I could stream the snow off the card before I bought a new digital tuner card.

After quite a bit if frustration i think I finally found a solution for this.

VLC allows you to grab a channel from the capture card via direct show and stream it out via RTSP.. as you know serviio support RTSP streams. So once I got that going, I was able to just add a live stream URL to the serviio console and successfully kick it out to all my devices.

This method uses the onboard mpeg2 encoder on the cap card so the cpu penalty is very minimal.

I am still fine tuning the process, I want to make sure I can push out multiple channels and the video is a bit choppy so I need to do some performance tweaking.

If anyone is interested in going down this path.
This article helped alot
http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation: ... re_Devices

[zip]

Slyguy, this sounds interesting and if you have some time, an article on wiki would be great

[slyguy42o]

created a wiki article for this process

http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=str ... pture_card