watch Live TV remotely without using EWA web app?

[onlinespending]

I am about to relocate for work and spend several days a week living out of an apartment away from home. I'd like to setup a PC using NPVR at home and be able to remotely stream Live TV and recordings at the apartment. Is there a way to do so simply using an NPVR client in the apartment and setting up the NPVR server at home to transcode on-the-fly? I'd like to avoid using the web browser based NEWA and simply use the dedicated NPVR application. Thank you.

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Is there a way to do so simply using an NPVR client in the apartment and setting up the NPVR server at home to transcode on-the-fly? I'd like to avoid using the web browser based NEWA and simply use the dedicated NPVR application.

Sorry - there is nothing built in that would do that.

[OTAjunkie]

I think you might be interested in why NEWA should be used and why a remote client is out of the question.
BANDWIDTH.
Accross a LAN NPVR client requires at least (I could be wrong) 100Mps.
Do you know the upload capacity of your ISP at home?
I'm guessing it's below 5Mps.
And at your new location the download speed is?
NEWA using VLC "dumbs" the stream down to a puny 256kb and that's why it works.
Also you'd need a rather genereous capacity given that an hour of live HD TV is mucho GB.
Use da NEWA!

[onlinespending]

I think you might be interested in why NEWA should be used and why a remote client is out of the question.
BANDWIDTH.
Accross a LAN NPVR client requires at least (I could be wrong) 100Mps.
Do you know the upload capacity of your ISP at home?
I'm guessing it's below 5Mps.
And at your new location the download speed is?
NEWA using VLC "dumbs" the stream down to a puny 256kb and that's why it works.
Also you'd need a rather genereous capacity given that an hour of live HD TV is mucho GB.
Use da NEWA!

Right. I'm aware of the bandwidth limitations. Which is why I mentioned transcoding on-the-fly in my original post. I would think any PVR software that separates backend and frontend into server-client relationships could theoretically do so over the internet as well. To the software, there should be no distinction between LAN or WAN. The only difference is the bottleneck over the internet. If NPVR (or MythTV or similar) had support for transcoding the streams to a low-bitrate alternative, then it wouldn't matter whether you're local or not, as long as you transcoded it to an acceptable bitrate.

I understand why a web based solution is preferred, since it can support virtually any mobile device that has an modern web browser. But for those that want to watch remote TV on an HDTV from the couch, simply using the NPVR interface would be ideal.

[OTAjunkie]

Perhaps you should look into purchasing a USB tuner that comes with an antenna if you can get by with OTA.
And use NEWA to transfer "specialty channel" content for viewing later or a remote desktop/vpn to transfer all comskip stuff too.

[johnsonx42]

You could try SplashTop Remote Desktop. It's supposed to work well with video even over the internet, though I've not tried it myself (that is, I've not tried video over the internet with it... I have used it for other things).