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 :)
>
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> 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?
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>>>> -Yaron
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