Program for Tv Tuner

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Program for Tv Tuner

I want to develop my own tv tuner program mainly for live stream. Looked at OpenCV but I still prefer to have something that I own, mainly due to customization.

Search over the web and cant seem to find a good site on how to start.
The only clues that I have are things like DirectX, DirectShow.
From what it seems, i believe web cam and tv tuner works about the same way, but correct me if I am wrong. So can I say that I need to detect video capture device, or is it another type of device.

Will need help from you expert out there. Platform wise will be windows. Language wise I think C++ will do.C# is also good for me.

+2 A:

You can't create a TV tuner in software. CPUs are still many orders of magnitude too slow to decode the TV signal from the carrier frequency. Hardware is required, Hauppauge is in the business of TV tuner cards.

Hans Passant 2010-08-20 16:38:39

Yup have hardware, issue is just that some users have their preferred hardware, but I would prefer if I can do 1 program to cater for most of the hardware. That is, 1 TV tuner hardware, and 1 software which is for me to customize.

C_Rance 2010-08-21 01:04:36

+1 A:

You are right. Both the tuners and webcam allow you to read a strream. The tuner also allows you the change the channel etc.

A good point to see how it all works is MediaPortal an Open Source .net HTPC applicaiiont

http://www.team-mediaportal.com/

ggonsalv 2010-08-20 16:51:35

OK, at least I know where to start looking for.I was hoping I can incorporate switching channel too.But given the response, guess I can only stream

C_Rance 2010-08-21 01:02:39

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