On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Artem Makhutov wrote: > 1. The stb0899 driver is broken and is producing a bad stream > 2. The network streaming of VLC and dvbstream is broken Use the `-o:' option of `dvbstream' to write to a file, then see if this file is corrupted or damaged. If this is so, then case 1 above would be correct. > Do you know any other methods to stream a DVB-S2 channel over network? There's no difference between a DVB-S2 channel and any other source of 188-byte Transport Stream packets, be they video, radio, data, or whatever. I've used `dvbstream' in the past to stream multicast data; the problem I had was in the limited support of the players I was using to handle the stream properly. I also think I may have had to hack `dvbstream' slightly to properly support and tag the payloads, though I may be mis-remembering. At the moment I'm using `dvbstream' to stdout, then piping that to extract the audio payload of interest, which I then pipe to a different streaming program that performs better for a simple audio stream without the excess overhead of the TS, and it's working well. The only problem I've had has been the interaction with the various hardware I use on the purity of the stream -- if the USB ethernet is connected one way, it causes the stream from the DVB receiver to be corrupted, and if the receiver is connected through a particular USB hub, its stream is again corrupted occasionally. It is all very annoying when I forget, and confusing to try and track down these imperfections -- for example, I've now determined that a particular external USB->HDD adapter cannot be connected directly to my EHCI card, nor to the first hub, but seems fine when a second hub is connected to the first, then the disk to that daisy-chain. And on another machine, the two EHCI USB ports don't work at all, while working wonderfully with NetBSD. That off-topic rambling was to note that problems often may be caused by seemingly unrelated things for reasons which I cannot understand, not being intimate with the kernel internals or how hardware works. Back on-topic, I have used `dvbstream' to multicast TS of radio and video, tuning directly with it (i.e., no `szap' needed) with no real problems, though it is the standard `dvbtools' version that I've undoubtedly hacked. barry bouwsma _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
