I got a TV card, it appears like this in lspci: 01:08.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7131/SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev d1) In order to stream 3 simultaneous streams, very low, low and high quality, you can do this: #!/bin/ksh # /sbin/modprobe saa7134-alsa sleep 2 DEV=/dev/tvcard ps -ef | grep -i vlc | grep -v grep |grep -i $DEV | awk '{ print $2 }'| while read P;do kill -9 $P done VBR=96 ABR=24 W=320 H=240 ### --deinterlace-mode {discard,blend,mean,bob,linear} : deinterlacing mode (default: discard) # width=320,height=240 qpmax=40 x264{crf=5,profile=extended,level=1.0} # :standard{access=http{user=video,pwd=cable},mux=asf,dst=0.0.0.0:8088} # venc=x264{level=2,nr=1000,me=tesa,b-pyramid,bitrate=64,ref=4,b-adapt=2,bframes=2,partitions=all, keyint=2500} VLC="/usr/local/bin/cvlc --logo-file /disk2/logox.png v4l2://$DEV :input=2 :standard=8 :input-slave=alsa://hw:1 ,0 --alsa-samplerate=32000 --deinterlace-mode linear --sout " 35/433 VERYLOW="transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp4a,channels=1,width=160, height=120,vb=24,ab=16,venc=x264{bframes=0,leve l=5,nr=1000,b-pyramid,b-adapt=2, hurry-up},audio-sync,sfilter=logo}:standard{access=http,dst=0.0.0.0:8011/stream .flv}" LOW="transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp4a,channels=1,width=${W},height=${H},vb=${VBR},ab=${ABR},venc=x264{bframes= 0,level=5,nr=1000,b-pyramid,b-adapt=2},audio-sync,sfilter=logo}: standard{access=http,dst=0.0.0.0:8012/stream.fl v}" 36/433 HIGH="transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp4a,channels=2,ab=128,venc=x 264{bframes=0,level=5,nr=1000,b-pyramid,b-adapt =2,hurry-up},deinterlace,audio-sync,sfilter=logo}:standard{access=http,dst=0.0.0.0:8013/stream.flv}" /usr/local/bin/v4l2-ctl -d $DEV --set-tuner=stereo /usr/local/bin/v4l2-ctl -d $DEV --set-standard=0 /usr/local/bin/ivtv-tune -d $DEV -t us-cable -c3 #--- audio codecs can be mpga or mp3 or m4a #--- mux can be ogg,ts,mp4,asf,ps,mpeg1,asfh, mpjpeg #--- low quality #$VLC "#$VERYLOW" #--- low quality #$VLC "#$LOW" #--- LAN quality #$VLC "#$HIGH" #---- single command, high quality AND low quality using h264_vdpau and x264 as encoder $VLC "#duplicate{dst="$VERYLOW",dst="$LOW",dst="$HIGH"}" #$VLC "#duplicate{dst="$VERYLOW",dst="$HIGH"}" #$VLC "#duplicate{dst="$LOW",dst="$HIGH"}" #$VLC "#duplicate{dst="$VERYLOW",dst="$LOW"}" "#duplicate" is used in order to have 2 streams working simultaneously from the same input device, for each output srteam we use a "dst="