RE: MCE - SlingBox in Software?

["Andy Laurence" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Mark McCall [mailto:lists@xxxxxxx]
> > 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.
>
> Thanks, anyone tried this at over broadband?

It'll all be down to the bitrate you can sustain over your connection.  If
you have ADSL at home, your maximum bitrate will be somewhere around
200kbps, which is pretty poor video quailty.  You may be better off using a
larger bitrate, pre-encoding, and downloading before playing, rather than
streaming.  Having said that, 200kbps is about right for viewing on your
mobile phone or PDA.  If you can get a 200kbps Internet connection on your
phone or PDA, you could watch TV live on that.  You'd need broadband in
your hotel room or whatever though.  This gets me wondering about what 3G
networks can provide.  Can you surf the 'net with a 3G account at over
200kbps?

Cheers,
Andy