On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Largo Hellenz wrote: > 1) i have digital cable and so need to use the LIRC project.. > i found this transciever: (homemade diagram) > http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/3680/2001/1/0/5037984 > is this a good way to go? which transciever do you use? I've got an irdeo (www.irdeo.de), but I modified the way it connects to the serial port to make in function the same as the lirc homebrew design. I also did fine for transmitting with a diode/resistor/irled setup. Not much range, but I stuck the irled right in front of the boxes to be controlled. > 2) since this would be RCA video out (not cable) to the linux box, > is there a difference in the best card to buy? I don't know - almost all cards have video in. If you've got a sound card then you can feed stereo audio straight to that so I don't think it needs to be anything fancy. > 2) the i really like the ssh tunnel idea for the mpegrec: > "ssh mymachine mpegrec -b 64 -r 32000 -x '-S' | mpg123 -" > can this be done with the entire video (as well as audio)? > could you do something like... "ssh mymachine btty | btty -"? > how much bandwitch would decent res at 640x480 require, do you think? > would it make more sense to stream television over net with RealServer? > (or a similar product?) I guess you could do that trick with a full mpeg stream. But the bandwidth would be "challenging" - you'd have to capture 176x144 sort of resolution to get mpeg bandwidth down to ADSL/Cable type speeds. 640x480 resolution at "decent" mpeg quality will require 3megabits of bandwidth I would say. I guess it depends on your definition of decent. ssh probably isn't really the right transport either - should really use an rtp connection - but special software would be needed. Real stuff might be a better bet (there's been discussion around - v4l or ffmpeg lists I think). Steve
