2005-10-21, 01:49 PM
So I have been reading some articles about microsofts push for IPTV. It sounds kind of neat. Basically you can use your high speed internet connection to stream tv content to your tv. Most people have DSL or Cable.
I was wondering if bandwidth was fast enough to do that today.
I see two possibilities
1) Imagine something like shoutcast that people with tuner cards would connect to. It would determine when a tuner was idle and allow someone to stream your channel to their pvr over the internet. ( Is streamming illegal)
The problem with that is if you wanted to record something it might bump the user.
2) The other possibility is a central server with a list of all recorded shows and who has them. You can stream shows from different users machines.
I figure most people record at 3500 kilobits per second.
Which is about 460KB per second. Odds are the bandwidth is not there unless some fancy transcoding is done.
The idea is interesting. Obviously at the same time as the media is suing all of the peer to peer systems they are learning that they need some kind of system to distribute their content cheaply.
Eventually when the C# framework supports the IPTV protocols we can implement a plugin to use our current setups to view the content.
I was wondering if bandwidth was fast enough to do that today.
I see two possibilities
1) Imagine something like shoutcast that people with tuner cards would connect to. It would determine when a tuner was idle and allow someone to stream your channel to their pvr over the internet. ( Is streamming illegal)
The problem with that is if you wanted to record something it might bump the user.
2) The other possibility is a central server with a list of all recorded shows and who has them. You can stream shows from different users machines.
I figure most people record at 3500 kilobits per second.
Which is about 460KB per second. Odds are the bandwidth is not there unless some fancy transcoding is done.
The idea is interesting. Obviously at the same time as the media is suing all of the peer to peer systems they are learning that they need some kind of system to distribute their content cheaply.
Eventually when the C# framework supports the IPTV protocols we can implement a plugin to use our current setups to view the content.
WinXP Home
3 X MVPs
Hauppauge 250 MCE
Hauppauge 150
P-4 2.4 GHz / 768 megs Ram
610 Gigs Of Media Storage
3 X MVPs
Hauppauge 250 MCE
Hauppauge 150
P-4 2.4 GHz / 768 megs Ram
610 Gigs Of Media Storage