Stream Live TV in Media Center Without an Extender

I came across a great tip over on The Green Button about how you can stream live TV from Media Center without using an extender. You can use Windows Media Encoder and setup to broadcast an event and stream live TV to another interent connected PC. Here’s a quick rundown of the steps:

1) Grab a copy of WME9.

2) It starts in wizard mode, select "broadcast live event."

3) Select your TV tuner as the audio and video source.

4) Click "configure" for the tuner to ensure it'll use the right video input source.

5) Select "pull from the encoder."

6) Use the default URL and port (8080).

7) Select the video bitrate and window size.

8) Click "finish."

That's it.   Now just fire up media player on one or more machines on your network, open the url (with correct port), et voila.   You're streaming TV on multiple clients in your home.   The only hurdle remaining is changing channels....