OT Remote TV Viewing

Paul wrote:
Oft wrote:
View live or recorded TV.

Location 1
Win 7 Pro with Media Center and Dual TV Tuner to roof antenna.
High speed internet up and down.


Location 2
Win 7 Pro PC
medium speed download internet.

what are ways to get
1) Media Center recordings from Location 1 to Location 2

2) Live TV from Location 1 to Location 2

Please consider all possible methods including buying additional
software and hardware.



You can try transcoding some of your existing collection with this.
I modified the command a bit, to convert the whole video (two hours
worth). Since the command here "implies" stream copying, this
should go as fast as the hard drives can go. I used two different
partitions here when making up a path, so that two different
hard drives could be used while copying.

http://www.dirkbertels.net/video/wtv.php

(unpack to C:\ffmpeg\bin first...)

cd \
cd C:\ffmpeg\bin

ffmpeg.exe -i C:\sample.wtv -vcodec copy -acodec copy -target
ntsc-dvd D:\sample.mpg

Then figure out a way to serve "sample.mpg" to some other media server
stuff.
Windows Media Player can stream, and I think VLC can stream,
amongst others.

FFMPEG can be obtained here. Use the release one
rather than the nightly, as the nightly seemed to have
some broken dependencies the last time I tested it.
On other occasions, I've had no trouble with the Zeranoe
stuff.

https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/

Other programs in the package are ffplay

ffplay sample.wtv

and ffprobe. ffprobe can dump packets from the video,
which you don't need at the moment.

Paul

And if you don't have Media Center set up (I don't),
there is a sample file provided with my copy of Win7 Pro.

win7_scenic-demoshort_raw.wtv 9,699,328 bytes

Now, it's a miserable sample, like all samples of this sort,
but at least it allows you to see some of the metadata fields
included inside the video.

WM/WMRVContentProtected: false

That's why this one plays for me in ffplay, and
why I should be able to convert it to something else.

Some DTV channels mark the local news as "protected content",
so be prepared for surprises when it comes to converting
or streaming. Since there is no sample file with the
above item set to "true", there's no opportunity
to see whether the thing is really encrypted or not
for DRM purposes. It should be, just as some DVRs,
the hard drive contents are encrypted to prevent
re-purposing the captured contend.

Paul