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RE: MCE - SlingBox in Software?


  • Subject: RE: MCE - SlingBox in Software?
  • From: "Andy Laurence" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:44:28 -0000

From: Mark McCall [mailto:lists@xxxxxxx]
> This got me thinking, surely it should be possible to create a
SlingBox (
> http://www.slingmedia.com/ )
in software?  You have all the elements, live
> and recorded TV, net access etc, all you'd need is some sort of
plug-in to
> encode and stream the video.  I'm sure that's where the SlingBox's
smarts
> lie and maybe it's not a simple task?  But with enough CPU horsepower
you'd
> think it should be a goer?

VLC (www.videolan.org) does on-the-fly encoding.  It's also easily
scriptable, so you could write a little web page to start and stop the
stream at different bitrates.

Cheers,
Andy



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