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In case I forget, following is the command I am using to stream from a Hauppauge PVR-250 card via HTTP… so that I can watch Hong Kong television from elsewhere, in case I get nostalgic or something:

spacehunt@ramen:~$ vlc -v --color pvr:/dev/video0:size=720x576:bitrate=3000000 --cr-average 1000 --sout '#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,acodec=vorbis,vb=180,ab=48,width=320,height=240,venc=ffmpeg{keyint=80,hurry-up,vt=500000},deinterlace}:standard{access=http,mux=ogg,dst=:56881}'

This says, take a 720×576 3Mbps MPEG2 stream from /dev/video0, deinterlace, transcode it using the XViD and Vorbis codecs, at 180kbps and 48kbps respectively, scale the resolution down to 320×240, and offer the result via HTTP port 56881 as an Ogg stream.

At first I tried Flumotion… but after trying for the whole morning, I gave up and remembered that VideoLAN was created exactly for this purpose. And it works flawlessly!