Reduce bandwidth when viewing remotely ?

Hi.
I'm looking for way to reduce the bandwidth watching a recorded program or live TV via my phone/tablet, ideally away from home.

Is there a way to:
-reduce FPS from the TV tuner to say 10/15 FPS ?
-reduce video size from the TV tuner to say 320x240 ?
(I don't care if it's small)
-record in smaller FPS or video size than original TV tuner?

I have RaspBMC with Happauge WinTV-HVR 950Q

I know Plan B would be to record content, convert to smaller files and then copying the MP4 remotely, but if we can bypass that hurdle it would be great.

Thanks!
Guy

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RE: Reduce bandwidth when viewing remotely ? - Added by Prof Yaffle over 10 years ago

On a Pi? No.

On a more powerful system? Yes.

If I understand you correctly, you're looking for realtime transcoding - tvheadend supports this as an option (search the forum), but I very much doubt a Pi is powerful enough to do it as you have to 'slingshot' the live stream through the encoder and spit it back out without missing anything. My i3 server does MPEG2 easily as a recode - but it encodes H.264 at about 1/4 speed (albeit with retention-quality settings).

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