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The buffering/stall problem can be overcome by tweaking Betaplayer, usually turning on Microdrive mode is sufficient but play around with the buffering settings and the
Prefer less buffering over smooth video setting. To get the best performance is definitely a matter of trial & error, the VLC settings I gave were just a starting point (based on my early failures ;) ) which you probably won't want to deviate too far from them as there are a lots of combinations that don't work.
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Originally Posted by Gigi
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Also, when streaming from the tv tuner card, I have found that VLC cannot handle MPEG2. My card is the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR USB2 which uses hardware compression. The only way I am able to watch tv is to use my PVR software to record the program, and then stream that recording using VLC while it is being recorded. Is there a way around this?
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Arrrgh! I hoped you weren't going to say that, WinTV PVR cards are incompatible with just about every piece of capture software ever written. The only combination that works with VideoLAN are the PVR250 or PVR350 under Linux, sorry but the workaround you're using is the only way I know of to make it work under Windows.
To view the stream outside your own network should only require a change in firewall settings, just forward the port you're using to your Internet IP instead of your LAN IP. To figure out the bandwidth you have just use an online bandwidth test like the
McAfee Speedometer.