Watch TV with WinSock control

[rikeman]

Hello,

I've got a TV tuner card in my pc, is there any way to make a VB app that gets video from a certain channel and sends it over a local network with Winsock to a client who can watch this video?

Regards,
Rikeman.

 

[Sheco]

Reading and decoding the video may be more difficult than streaming it to a network client.

If you are lucky the card supports DirectX, if not you'll need to find the proprietary API for the card.

 

[rikeman]

The card supports DirectX (ASUS TV FM Card). Can you tell me now how I can make an app that shows TV video (and maybe how must stream it with winsock); if you can tell me how I can show TV with a VB app it's all right.

Thanks for help,
Rikeman.

 

[Sheco]

If you are just interested in having the ability to do this then you are better off buying commercial software for this purpose.

If you want to program the network thing but not the video part then maybe buy a video program or look for a freeware one that will do it. There are some decent ones on SourceForge.

If you are interested in learning about how to do image aquisition I suggest that you download the free DirectX SDK from microsoft. It is mostly focused on C instead of VB so if you are not comfortable translating you probably want a to buy a book on DirectX with VB.

I would get the image stream aquistion code working first before you worry about the network bit.