[linux-dvb] ANNOUNCE: dvbstream 0.1 - RTP multicast DVB transport streams

["Marcus O.C. Metzler" <mocm@convergence.de>]

Dave Chapman writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > With the recent threads about software decoding and networking of VDR, I 
 > decided to revisit and release my "DVBstream" application.
 > 
 > This is based on the "ts-rtp" package from www.linuxtv.org.  It includes a 
 > couple of bug fixes to that package and the ability to stream live from a DVB 
 > card.  The license is the GNU GPL.
 > 
 > After tuning to a transponder, you run dvbstream as follows:
 > 
 > dvbstream pid1 pid2 ... pid8
 > 
 > On the client, use the included dumprtp utility to receive selected PIDs from 
 > the multicast:
 > 
 > dumprtp pid1 pid2 > received.ts
 > 
 > It would be straightforward to write a client based on dumprtp that sends 
 > this transport stream back to a DVB card on the client for hardware playback. 
 > I haven't had any success reliably playing back a TV stream in software (i.e. 
 > without any A/V corruption).  This may be due to my use of a 10Mbit/s LAN.  
 > 
 > However, using the mpegtools with the driver, I have performed problem-free 
 > audio-only decoding by doing:
 > 
 > dvbstream vpid apid
 > dumprtp | ts2pes vpid apid | pes2aud_es | mpg123 -
 > 
 > [Marcus - any chance of adding a "ts2aud_es apid" utility to mpegtools?]
 > 

I see what I can do. Shouldn't be to hard if you start with
ts_es_demux and get it to put audio to stdout and video to /dev/null.


Marcus

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