Stream tv over wifi

We do TV restreaming using http://videolan.org, which as well as being a player is also a streaming server. Assuming it supports your capture device it's a decent free solution.

(sorry for delay: 'stuff' happened) I've got a Kaiser Baas N1879 TVStick. It must be 3 or more years old; old enough that there's very little reference to it around. It has been superceded at http://www.kaiserbaas.com/tv-radio-category/usb-hd-tvstick-tuner. I have & love VLC. I use it for all video and didn't know it handled tv to be honest. But I have to ask if you can point towards any forum &/or FAQ etc that deals with the specifics of what I'm after - catch AND stream setup - that would be a great help. http://www.howtogeek.com/129800/how-to-use-usb-drives-with-the-nexus-7-and-other-android-devices/ on Android/USB drives suggests I need root control of my Nexus 7. I don't want and am not going to do this - I would brick the device I'm sure. Does this rule out direct use of TVStick into Nexus 7??

I did end up getting that KB wifi TV-plug & it does exactly what I wanted. It really is *not* worth the price though, which makes me the fool I guess. I'm sure I could buy a tv for that price. I came into some cash and 'found' I had some more $$ in my paypal a/c so I got impulsive. It also proves both how lazy I am and how fearful I am of getting into the tech weeds jerking around streaming under VLC (or whichever). If you want to go this route, you either must have a free coax cable connected to a decent antenna or be very very sure that the piddly indoor antenna that comes with the TV-plug will get reception where you live, otherwise you have bought a modest hunk of useless plastic. I have the ext. antenna so I'm set and lucky, because I can't raise a signal with the mini-antenna at all. I have bluetooth headphones and these wildly interfere with sound/film synching & are therefore rendered unusable. No other problems at all. Setup is simple. I don't think there's much of an EPG, it just seems to grab the current and next show titles. Recordings is a cinch too. You can only connect one mobile device to the TV-plug at a time and that device can't connect to internet wifi while connected to the TV-plug. Youtube ~3min http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsKqnB-6QTs for Kaiser Baas wifi TV-plug.

Oh, there is one definite answer (for ~$AU120) --> http://www.kaiserbaas.com/tv-radio-category/wifi-tv-plug for smart phones & tablets out earlier this year. A bit spendy imho.

Mm. This isn't going to happen any time fast and, as I say, I will let you know whicheverwhatway works in all the circumstances. One of the main contenders under that rubric, circumstances is: I'm in ***AUSTRALIA***, so slingbox is out (99% certain of this - or it's a dumb choice to import) and so I'd have to get some advice about equivalent local products. I'd rather spend nothing because my problem is minor, in the great scheme, and if it can't be solved with fiddling, then, at this stage, I might be just better off continuing not watching live tv on my Nexus 7. We shall see. Still waiting on neighbour too.

Ah, yes, of course you need to handle tuning. I completely skipped that step since we use a machine full of tuner cards, one for each station. The VLM web interface should (in theory) let you re-tune the DVB receiver from your streaming client - you can turn it on under Settings > Add Interface > Web Interface. This is getting pretty far from a simple end-user setup though, so if your don't actively enjoy fiddling with software it might be worth taking a step back and just buying a slingbox or something like emptythought suggested up thread.

Just getting tv to appear is finicky in VLC and requires individually (for each channel) inputting local signal frequencies. That's what I'm up to so far. I've got a signal for one channel and it works. Obviously this is the easy end of the equation. I will report back. There's a very useful VLC tutorial for streaming media http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yjniMqZw8g and a nice visual layout of the streaming solution https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo/Streaming,_Muxers_and_Codecs/.

Well from my perspective even the second half of that equation (the part I'm familiar with) isn't completely sorted. This is still "techie" territory and takes some playing around to get everything to work. For example with PS3mediaserver (pms) we upgraded to the Samsung devices that use something called Allshare. To get pms to work I had to go find a configuration file for them to talk nicely with each other, and the conf file had been essentially generated by users. Supposedly windows media player can act as a server but when I first tried it years ago barely anything worked. I had no idea VLC player (which is my go to this will play anything and everything player) could act as a server. Please let us know if you get this working though. I'm curious - this might cure an upcoming sports dilemma for me as we just cut the cord a few weeks ago.

Thanks a lot for your efforts russm. I found the basic VLC capture menu but I'll have to devote some time to playing around with the options at the very least, plus do some reading. In other words, it isn't working automatically. Yet. I have a smart neighbour too, so I might hit him up over the weekend for his 2c of input. Still, I find it strange that this isn't a long ago sorted viewing system (antenna/TVStick-->pc-->android tablet stream OR antenna/TVStick-->android tab)