DVB-T(2)?
by pchristy from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5EWSB)
Just a question to see if anyone has played with DVB reception on a Pi? I have been having a play, with varying degrees of success...
I started off using a PCTV USB TripleStick 292E, which I got for my laptop. My "goto" application for DVB is Kaffeine, which compiled without errors on Slarm64. However, whilst it scanned and found all my local DVB channels, it wouldn't actually play them! At best I would occasionally get a few "blocks" of noise, as if the signal level were marginal, but no actual pictures.
My next stop was the DVB utilities. I used dvbv5-scan to get a channels file for my local transmitter, and then used
Code:dvbv5-zap --lna=1 -c dvb/BeaconHillv5.conf "BBC ONE HD" -rto tune the DVB stick. I could then use
Code:mpv /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0to watch it in MPV.
This works flawlessly, and by adding
Code:-o /path/to/recordings/filename.mtsto the dvbv5-zap command, I can record the program.
This is clumsy, however, as you need two terminals open - one for tuning (dvbv5-zap) and the other for mpv.
Trying to tune mpv directly from Smplayer works, but has a very high cpu useage and is jittery. Trying to tune from VLC using an xspf playlist also doesn't work, producing no output at all - just like Kaffeine. Probably not too surprising, as Kaffeine uses libvlc.
I did wonder if the problem was not being able to enable the lna in Smplayer or VLC, so I invested in a Pi TV uHAT (very cheap on Amazon, at the moment!). This doesn't use an LNA, but exactly the same issues arise.
Raspbian recommend TVHeadend and Kodi. I have used these in the past on x86_64, but TVHeadend needs to be started before Kodi, and needs to be manually terminated after exiting Kodi. And my experiences with Kodi is that it is a pig to compile! I would rather avoid this route if possible!
Has anyone else experimented with this, and found a lighweight solution that works?
Cheers,
--
Pete
I started off using a PCTV USB TripleStick 292E, which I got for my laptop. My "goto" application for DVB is Kaffeine, which compiled without errors on Slarm64. However, whilst it scanned and found all my local DVB channels, it wouldn't actually play them! At best I would occasionally get a few "blocks" of noise, as if the signal level were marginal, but no actual pictures.
My next stop was the DVB utilities. I used dvbv5-scan to get a channels file for my local transmitter, and then used
Code:dvbv5-zap --lna=1 -c dvb/BeaconHillv5.conf "BBC ONE HD" -rto tune the DVB stick. I could then use
Code:mpv /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0to watch it in MPV.
This works flawlessly, and by adding
Code:-o /path/to/recordings/filename.mtsto the dvbv5-zap command, I can record the program.
This is clumsy, however, as you need two terminals open - one for tuning (dvbv5-zap) and the other for mpv.
Trying to tune mpv directly from Smplayer works, but has a very high cpu useage and is jittery. Trying to tune from VLC using an xspf playlist also doesn't work, producing no output at all - just like Kaffeine. Probably not too surprising, as Kaffeine uses libvlc.
I did wonder if the problem was not being able to enable the lna in Smplayer or VLC, so I invested in a Pi TV uHAT (very cheap on Amazon, at the moment!). This doesn't use an LNA, but exactly the same issues arise.
Raspbian recommend TVHeadend and Kodi. I have used these in the past on x86_64, but TVHeadend needs to be started before Kodi, and needs to be manually terminated after exiting Kodi. And my experiences with Kodi is that it is a pig to compile! I would rather avoid this route if possible!
Has anyone else experimented with this, and found a lighweight solution that works?
Cheers,
--
Pete