Howto: Record a web stream of TV with VLC

As you may have noticed, a number of national and international tv stations are beginning to offer their products in the form of high-definition mp4 live video streams. Long gone are the days when streaming meant crappy realmedia video. Let’s hope they never return.

A natural question that arises is how to record and store such streams for future viewing. In this part one of our feature on recording with VLC we will look at how to save a tv stream to the hard disk. Read on for more…
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Using the Nokia N800 as a TV remote

I own an ATI x1950xt graphics card. It has some really nice features, one of them that is has a VIVO, Video In Video Out, port which allows my PC to have bidirectional video transfer through a Mini-DIN connector. Using a spitter cable, I can hook up my TV via the scart-port and use it as an auxillary monitor. Running at 600×800 this is all very nice.

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