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Old 01-20-05, 09:44 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Watch cable tv!
Did a search and didn't find much on here so I decided to share. If you have a tv tuner card in your computer you can use windows media encoder which is free to stream live tv to your pda. As far I as know you can't change channels with the windows media encoder, so your normally stuck with the one channel that you set. But I found a great app that via a web interface you can change the channel of the tv card remotely. http://www.umediaserver.net/download.html Its the last add-on at the bottom of the page call TvChannelChanger. If you want you can use the apps on that page as an alternative to windows media encoder to stream the tv, I although like windows media encoder better than that app.
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Old 01-20-05, 09:53 PM   #2 (permalink)
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good call, welcome to the site, JDH
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Old 01-20-05, 09:56 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Urgh! That's incredibly cool, and yet I can't use it, because I have satellite TV rather than cable. Ack.
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Old 01-20-05, 10:25 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Urgh! That's incredibly cool, and yet I can't use it, because I have satellite TV rather than cable. Ack.
Plug a video capture card into the satellite box!
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Old 01-21-05, 03:36 AM   #5 (permalink)
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It doesn't quite work like that. The satellite box only outputs one channel at a time, so you still have to change channels on the sat box. It's kind of like digital cable--the stream is encrypted and isn't compatible with just plugging in to a regular cable tuner. I have a capture card plugged in to the satellite box already, and I've tried streaming TV, but the issue remains that you can't change the channel. I'd need some kind of program that could go over the network to my desktop, and from there issue commands to the box via an IR adapter or something. I've not found anything like that.
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Old 01-21-05, 04:35 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Does the satellite box have a RS-232 control line?
You might be able to use it if there is one, or use LIRC if it doesn't. Use telnet or VNC to control the server.
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Old 01-22-05, 08:01 PM   #7 (permalink)
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ok im having some trouble tryin to create a stream from this computer, it says this

"cannot find a valid output stream from the source"

anybody have any ideas what this means??

i have a Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II card

and i am using windows media encoder, when i click finish it is giving me this message

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Old 01-23-05, 04:31 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Drivers?
Do you have the latest drivers?
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Old 01-23-05, 04:36 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Thats actually what i was checking on when i saw this post, thanks this might be the problem
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Old 01-23-05, 05:00 PM   #10 (permalink)
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i cant find any kind of drivers for the Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II, this product has no support on their website. GREAT
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Old 01-23-05, 07:38 PM   #11 (permalink)
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If you can't get it to work with windows media encoder check out the rest of the software at http://www.umediaserver.net/download.html Maybe that app will work with it, the result of streaming tv should be pretty much the same.
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Old 01-23-05, 09:31 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Have you tried watching tv then closing your tv application and running the windows media encoder. I need to run the tv app to choose a channel otherwise I get snow or an error message.


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ok im having some trouble tryin to create a stream from this computer, it says this

"cannot find a valid output stream from the source"

anybody have any ideas what this means??

i have a Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II card

and i am using windows media encoder, when i click finish it is giving me this message

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Old 01-23-05, 10:18 PM   #13 (permalink)
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I get the picture to work fine but I can't get audio

gotta fiddle!
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Old 01-23-05, 11:51 PM   #14 (permalink)
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If you do as heff suggests, that will probably give you the audio. I had the same problem until I assume the driver was updated because after a reinstall of windows I redownloaded the drivers and windows media encoder magically worked with my leadtek 2000xp card. So try opening windows media encoder and while that is open, open the software that came with the tv card. That software should display an error about not being able to read stream, but you should now have audio and be able to change the channels on the fly with that software while the video remains in the media encoder. Now I am not sure if this would interfere with the remote channel changing program, but I doubt it.
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Old 01-24-05, 02:03 PM   #15 (permalink)
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If you get it to work.
If you get it to work.

Please post diections.

I have a Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2.

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