[NTLUG:Discuss] Power of Linux brings TV to invalid without a TV (cable) connection.

[Chris Cox]

Yes... I'm the invalid.

So... here I am stuck in the upstairs, I'm not supposed to put any
weight on my foot.  I wanted to watch some TV.

As some recall, my main server (downstairs in the study) uses
a Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2... well I recently upgraded to the
HVR-1950 (also a USB device, the upgrade for the older unit
which adds atsc support).

I could mount the files from the PVR across NFS, but that's
way too slow for effective movie watching on a plain G wireless.

A couple of years ago I did a presentation showing how kaffeine
could be used to serve up streaming to multiple client hosts for
multimedia.

Ah ha moment.

However, my pvr setup used xine (no kaffeine) since you can
do remote control operations via xine from a separate process
(and via the command line... simple telnet like). 

Hmmm...  So... still, I could use kaffeine, but the pvr setup
is used to using xine....  well... wouldn't ya know it, xine
supports the remove slave setup as well!!  This should be easy!

So I use nomachine to get to my desktop in the study, bring
up TV Titan's web site, hit watch and that brings up a copy
of xine... which works ok over nomachine, but with audio video
sync issues (I already knew that).  I changed my software to
add the --broadcast-port 8080 option (kaffeine uses 8080 by
default, so I thought I'd match).  I also turned off the
video windows (with xine you can disable that easily using
the 'h' key). Then on my laptop I invoked xine:

xine slave://addy-of-my-pvr-host:8080

And presto!  I have TV on my laptop.  I change channels by
hitting the links off tvtitan from my nomachine, or I can
simply issue my pvrcmd2 commands (my own script) to an ssh to
the pvr box.

Just thought I'd share...

Let's see a Windows user do that in a few minutes!!