USB MPEG encoder - is it feasible?

[ghaspias]

If I had a USB TV-capture device, with hardware MPEG encoding, would it be possible to stream the encoded video to another machine for storage? What would I need to have the router control the tv-card and fetch the encoded video? The 802.11g has enough bandwidth to stream the data?

What about playback? Are there any devices that also decode in hardware?

I know this might be daydreaming, but if there is a technical possibility, I'd like to explore it...

[ghaspias]

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C'mon, I'm sure someone can tell me if this is just plain stupid or not!

[hezik]

If I had a USB TV-capture device, with hardware MPEG encoding, would it be possible to stream the encoded video to another machine for storage? What would I need to have the router control the tv-card and fetch the encoded video? The 802.11g has enough bandwidth to stream the data?


You'd need a USB TV-capture device with linux drivers available as source, then you'd need to compile those against the firmware.

I don't think what you want (to stream the data to another machine) is feasable.

Not because of bandwidth limitations (i take it the USB device would send already encoded video over the usb bus. USB 1.0 has enough bandwidth for reasonable quality video. De 802.11g is no issue, since USB is the bottleneck.

As I said, i don't think that'll be your biggest problem. Getting the driver to work, and then streaming the data will be the biggest issue. It would be easier if you would let the device store it's output on an USB disk (though this would have implications for the available bandwith) and then copy the file over to the other machine.

I do think it can be done, but it won't be easy. Considering you're asking the question, i'd say 'don't go there'.

[ghaspias]

Thanks for your comments!