[linux-dvb] Re: radio?

[Justin Cormack <justin@street-vision.com>]

On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 20:13, Atish Nazir wrote:
> Hello,
> 	was what tools people were using to listen to the DVB-T radio broadcasts?
> 
> To tune into Kerrang, initially I tried:
> 
> hashaday@necromancer:~$ tzap kerrang
> using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
> tuning to 537833333 Hz
> status 1f | signal 3131 | snr e5e5 | ber 0000ddfb | unc 0000000c | 
> FE_HAS_LOCK
> hashaday@necromancer:~$ dvbstream 1301 -o | ts2es 1301 | mpg321 -
> 
> Although this works the sound is very very very skippy.  And so instead 
> of piping straight into mpg321, I redirect into a file and play that 
> file with "XMMS", playback is now perfect, but obviously this is 
> wasteful of disk space :o(
> 
> hashaday@necromancer:~$ dvbstream 1301 -o | ts2es 1301 > ~/radio.mp2
> 
> Any tips would be most appreciated, thanks :o)

Try adding the bfr program to the pipe (on either side of ts2es). I
forget where you can find it, google will know. A bit of buffering fixes
up most problems (the problem seems tho be that you get underflows on
dvbstream and it has to reset because the normal pipe only is 1k).

Justin




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