I hate to be pushing MythTV rather than offering a solution, but I'm fairly sure Myth has a network RC interface. (Also I prefer to have one remote control for everything rather than separate "portable devices" for each device). On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Raymond Norton wrote: > Right... Mythtv can stream live, but with VLC, I can stream live and change > channels from any portable device, no remote needed :) > > > > > On 2/7/2012 11:40 AM, Yaron wrote: >> MythTV can stream livetv... not sure about the channel changing. I use a, >> what's it called... newfangled thing... remote control! (: >> >> On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Raymond Norton wrote: >> >>> I'm streaming live TV using vlc and changing channels via an HTTP >>> interface. I use mthtv for making and watching recordings. >>> >>> >>> >>> On 2/7/2012 10:58 AM, Yaron wrote: >>>> Out of curiosity, why don't you just use MythTV to do the streaming, too? >>>> You can tell it to use VLC as the video player. >>>> >>>> On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Raymond Norton wrote: >>>> >>>>> I use a box for both mythtv and streaming vlc. I need to kill >>>>> mythtvbackend to make the dvb adapter available to vlc, which is not a >>>>> problem. However, something has changed that I am not aware of and even >>>>> though I killall myth, vlc says the dvb adapter is not available. Is >>>>> there a way to issue a command that frees up the adapter, regardless of >>>>> what is using it, or at least find the process that is using it? >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -Yaron >>>> >>>> -- >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >> >> >> -Yaron >> >> -- >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -Yaron --