Hi, On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 03:29:45AM +0100, BOUWSMA Barry wrote: > 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. Everything looks like my SkyStar HD/TT-3200 is producing a little bit currupt stream for DVB-S2 under linux. DVB-S looks prette good. I will try to playback the recorded stream under Windows today afternoon. Thanks and Regards, Artem _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
