Possible to stream video/TV from MCE over WiFi?

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#16515 13-Oct-2007 13:30

My wife & I would occasionaly like to watch TV in bed, but not often enough to spend $700 on a small tv to hang on a wall (no space to put a CRT tv). However, we do have a laptop that all our web browsing, emails and word processing is done on. It's not flash, a 2yo Acer 3000 (800mhz Semperon, 768mb Ram, 80gb hdd, XP SP2).
What I was wondering is how hard (and/or expensive) it would be to send via my WiFi connection a tv/video signal from the HTPC to the laptop. Basically, can I watch TV on my laptop with my existing hardware/software by sending the stream from the HTPC, and if so, how do I go about it?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions

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#90924 13-Oct-2007 15:48

http://www.asciiexpress.com/webguide/

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#90932 13-Oct-2007 17:39

If you're already recording stuff on your htpc, can't you just go and run the files directly off a file share and play them in your laptop??

I do that sometimes now, but my system is gbpvr based and my recordings are from a Hauppauge card already in mpeg2 format and show up as .mpg files.

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#90994 14-Oct-2007 15:31

tonyhughes: http://www.asciiexpress.com/webguide/

Cheers Tony! Exactly what I wanted. Works brilliantly (except for a few features because i don't have a working epg, but nothing i can't get around)
Funny I couldn't find that when I was googling. Anyway, thanks again

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#90999 14-Oct-2007 16:48

no worries, its a great app. i have tinkered with it, and i have a colleague who swears by it...

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#91174 15-Oct-2007 22:43

get an xbox 360 and use it as an extender.... much better than simply being able to play recordered TV via a share.

I run 3 xbox 360s and 1 orignal xbox...

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#91182 15-Oct-2007 23:14

babygwc: get an xbox 360 and use it as an extender.... much better than simply being able to play recordered TV via a share.

I run 3 xbox 360s and 1 orignal xbox...

IMO there must be cheaper media extenders than an xbox 360?
Or do you do gaming at each location?

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#91205 16-Oct-2007 09:19

Rollux:
tonyhughes: http://www.asciiexpress.com/webguide/

Cheers Tony! Exactly what I wanted. Works brilliantly (except for a few features because i don't have a working epg, but nothing i can't get around)
Funny I couldn't find that when I was googling. Anyway, thanks again

Webguide is now being provided free of charge, thanks to Microsoft. The company acquired Webguide a few weeks ago to (possibly) incoporate it into Windows Home Server and as a free software extender.

This is the best thing to do.

davidcole: you're already recording stuff on your htpc, can't you just go and run the files directly off a file share and play them in your laptop??

As for "playing from the share" and "streaming"... When you "play fom the share" you are actually downloading the file and it will only play after a while - and you have not much control, instant playback, etc...

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#91214 16-Oct-2007 10:30

babygwc: get an xbox 360 and use it as an extender.... much better than simply being able to play recordered TV via a share.

I run 3 xbox 360s and 1 orignal xbox...

Someone has too much money in my opinion...
All i want is to be able to occasionally watch tv in bed, and I only have one tv which is in the lounge. If I was gonna spend the money I'd just buy another TV, but I don't watch enough tv to warrant it.

As for the webguide, it was a free download, and does what I want perfectly.

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#91275 16-Oct-2007 19:06

dont have toooo much money,as i got my xbox360's off trademe, they have no DVD rom drives (people tried to flash them and wrecked the DVD rom in process).. they make perfect (and relatviely cheap) extenders.... orginal xboxs are very cheap now if your not running vista...

but yes - i agree, a laptop is OK if you just want to watch to occassional already recorded show, and yes webguide is pretty awesome...