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Old 20-07-2005, 00:49   #4
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Re: Sky TV across a network.
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Originally Posted by mick70
A possible project at work is looming, can anyone shed any light on a solution?

A tv "sky news" live feed needs to be distributed from one point across a network of computers (win 98) to be viewed. The actual viewing screens are in elevators in a tall building.
My company will be doing the work but I bet you lot can enlighten me on how they will do it. As always, thanks in advance for any help/comments/insults!!
Just really want to echo what Stuart said. It's pretty easy to do -- stick a TV card in a PC, then use something like Windows Media Encoder (if it's a Windows box) or MEncoder (if it's a Linux box) to stream it in a format that the other computers will understand.

The problem is that you could technically be considered to be rebroadcasting the signal, which would be illegal. However, from a practical point of view, so long as it's strictly on the display machines only (i.e. ordinary workers couldn't bring up a stream on their desktop) then it's not really any different to using a coax/amp system to pump the TV signal around the building, which would be perfectly legal...
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