ATSC tv tuner on PC

[david90]

I'm looking for an activeX that works with an ATSC tv tuner card/usb. So far I haven't found the right combination of tuner and activeX that work together.

I'm trying to watch tv from a web browser.

It would be great if someone could point me to an activeX that can tune ATSC TV

Thanks!

[scootabug]

This is a bit of a punt, but I've been thinking about similar things and I'd be inclined to get the JTV Lan video player and viewing the stream from DVB Web Scheduler. I have no idea what ATSC is...but check out VideoLAN web site: http://www.videolan.org/

Found this in the Wiki about incorporating it into .Net: http://wiki.videolan.org/.Net_Interface_to_VLC

Best of luck, please let us know how you get on!

[david90]

VLC is a good movie player but not a good video streamer. It is buggy. Additionally, correct me if i'm wrong, I don't think the VLC work with HDTV tuner cards.

Does anyone know an OCX SDK that can be use to view HDTV?

[scootabug]

VLC is a good movie player but not a good video streamer. It is buggy. Additionally, correct me if i'm wrong, I don't think the VLC work with HDTV tuner cards.

Does anyone know an OCX SDK that can be use to view HDTV?

I have to admit, I didn't actually read your original post that clearly. I didn't realise that you wanted to watch streaming video in a web browser. That does change things considerably.

Not sure I can agree with you there re: VLC not being a good streamer. I haven't had a lot to do with it, but I've heard good things. Having said that, you don't necessarily need to use VLC as the player.

I'd be looking into some kind of IPTV server or 'stream server' (not unlike VLC) that can give you MPEG4 unicast or multicast on RTSP or whatever is most appropriate. You'll find that Quicktime (or Quicktime Alternative with the Media Player Classic) will play an MPEG4 over RTSP or even good old WMP and a decent MPEG4 codec like ffdshow. Then you can just embed the player into a HTML doc, presumably.

Now that I've said all that, I don't see why you need MPEG4, I was just thinking of the bandwidth. If this was over an Ethernet connection you could stream HDTV without a drama. So all you really need is something to server your HDTV stream (in whatever format) and your client needs to be able to play it.

What's your definition of HDTV? Here in Australia it's MPEG2 at about 10Mbit/sec bitrate tops. SDTV is about 4-6Mbit/sec.

Let us know how you get on David!