I've finally taken the plunge, and am gradually putting together a HTPC for satellite viewing, amongst other things. Part of the "master plan" though is to have a second, small, low-powered (i.e.Via c3) computer to which I hope to be able to send the MPEG stream for viewing in another room.
As the second computer will be CPU weak, I was wondering if anyone knows of any good PCI MPEG2 decoder cards which handled Transport streams as well? (and potential for RGB scart output wouldn't be scoffed at, though this is less important). And would the decoder have to be able to choose between the various PIDs on each stream, or is it in any way possible to send a single channel from a transponder from the first PC to the second?
Come to think of it, I guess the first question is whether it is possible to send the stream and decode it in real time at all- I am a complete novice! Is anyone doing this?
Thanks for any hints and advice,
Frazer
As the second computer will be CPU weak, I was wondering if anyone knows of any good PCI MPEG2 decoder cards which handled Transport streams as well? (and potential for RGB scart output wouldn't be scoffed at, though this is less important). And would the decoder have to be able to choose between the various PIDs on each stream, or is it in any way possible to send a single channel from a transponder from the first PC to the second?
Come to think of it, I guess the first question is whether it is possible to send the stream and decode it in real time at all- I am a complete novice! Is anyone doing this?
Thanks for any hints and advice,
Frazer