Re: [tlug] help recovering headless linux box

["Fergal Daly" <fergal@example.com>]

On 31/03/2008, Stuart Luppescu <slu@example.com> wrote:
> On 月, 2008-03-31 at 21:20 +0000, Fergal Daly wrote:
>  > I left a linux box in a house in Ogikubo and used it
>  > to watch TV in Ireland.
>
>
> Sorry, I can't help you with your problem, but I'm very curious about
>  this statement. Does it mean you streamed Japanese broadcast TV from
>  Japan to yourself in Ireland? If so, how did you do it? I'll bet my wife
>  would like to do this to watch Japanese TV here in Chicago.

Yes, although I never did the streaming very well. I mainly used it to
record programs, compress them and then transfer them to Ireland for
local viewing. If you can get MythTV or Pivo working well, I believe
they have support for exactly this sort of use - 1 box records,
another box replays, although I think when I looked they kind of
expected to be on the same LAN, I don't recall. I imagine things are a
bit better now too.

The Linux box in Japan has a Hauppage TV card in it, this was
discussed a little on this list around xmas and new-year 2006 so is in
the archives and I blogged some of it

http://wargle.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_archive.html

(mostly about how I created a bootable recovery CD that had my SSH
keys on it - sadly that CD while a success, is not doing me any good
in this case, the problem seems to be elsewhere).

Streaming is possible but the bandwidth constraints meant the quality
was poor, good enough though that my wife could watch daytime TV/news
shows - basically shows where the audio is more important that the
video. I had to turn the video compression "up to 11". You can see the
effect with a sample video with

mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=100:acodec=ac3:abitrate=64 $SAMPLE_VIDEO |
mplayer -

Something that would have been even better to get working but I never
had the time would be to get proper streaming between both ends,
possibly with UDP and a nice web interface.

There is also something call "slingbox" which is a little computer
that will stream live TV from one place to another, it doesn't do any
recording though (or didn't when I looked) and I don't know if there
was a linux client.

Finally, while Mountain View California, I saw advertisements in a
local Japanese free newspaper for a pre-built system (I think based on
windows, not sure) for ~$700 that did roughly this and you could pay
to have it delivered and installed in Japan for another $100 and then
maybe there was some subscription/support fee, I don't recall. However
it was quite a bulky looking system and possibly a power/noise hog,
whereas I have a small quiet cube which cost less - of course I am now
suffering from this...

F



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