dvbshout 0.2 review

dvbshout takes an MPEG transport stream from a DVB card, extracts audio channels from stream, and sends the audio to an Icecast / Sho

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 112K Developer: Nicholas J Humfrey

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dvbshout takes an MPEG transport stream from a DVB card, extracts audio channels from stream, and sends the audio to an Icecast / Shoutcast server. It had only been tested with DVB-S, but should also work with DVB-C and DVB-T.

Example run:

./dvbshout dvbshout.conf
DVB card name: "Philips TDA8083 DVB-S"
Tuning DVB-S to 12363000, Pol:v Srate=27500000, 22kHz=off
Frontend Status: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI
Frontend Status: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI FE_HAS_SYNC
Gained lock:
Frontend Type: QPSK
Frequency: 12363000
SymbolRate: 27500000
FEC Inner: 2
Bit error rate: 0
Signal strength: 40863
SNR: 53456

Setting PID filters:
2305: Virgin Radio

Connecting to Icecast 2 server:
http://virgin.6pack.org:8000/dvb/virgin_radio

Requirements:
libshout 2

What's New in This Release:
RTP/multicast support was added.
Support for DVB-T and DVB-C was fixed.
An MPEG Audio header parser was added.
Adaptation field awareness was added.