You don't have to convince me of MythTV. I have used it for years and love it. However, I am not streaming just on a LAN, but across the Internet and VLC works perfectly for that. Once in a while, I do use myth streaming, but at the moment, I prefer the full functionality I get with VLC. Feel free to answer my original question :) On 2/7/2012 11:49 AM, Yaron wrote: > 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 > > -- > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >