DVB-T USB tuner in server

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DVB-T USB tuner in server

Postby mackowiakp » May 7th, '14, 09:50

I have DVB-T USB dongle, working under Linux. My question is about possibility to plug such dongle into the server and stream as "Live stream" programs received by dongle. My server works without graphics running so for streaming needs I want to use GUI-less daemon/service/apps.
Is it possible? Any idea?
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Re: DVB-T USB tuner in server

Postby wanne » May 7th, '14, 11:59

Streaming is no problem, you can do this with vlc or ffmpeg. A little bit more difficult is to change the channel remotely. Do you want to be able to do this too?

And do you want to stream to a special PC or accessable for many PCs?
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Re: DVB-T USB tuner in server

Postby mackowiakp » May 7th, '14, 20:24

I use Serviio DLNA server on the same PC. Part of it is streaming live streams from my satbox via Serviio on Mageia server to another PC or Android based devices. The definition of such stream looks like this:

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http://pvr:8001/1:0:1:12C7:2E7C:13E:820000:0:0:0


It could be any stream available not only via http but rstp or any other working stream source too. So I can switch from one stream to another. Maybe it is possible similar with DVB-T dongle?
At this time I want to stream to only one device/renderer.
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Re: DVB-T USB tuner in server

Postby wanne » May 8th, '14, 04:07

OK, using Serviio makes it much more complicated.
The problem is the following: It's simple to stream one specific Channel (like streaming BBC). The problem is to change the frequency. If you have watched at first one channel on one frequency and later want to watch another channel on another frequency you have to reconfigure your hardware.
The typical way to solve this problem is to provide a website or telnet interface where you can change the frequency and later access the stream or installing a plugin or a driver on the streaming client which tells the server to change it. Both ways are not possible when you use Serviio in the middle. In this case the configuration has to be made by parsing the URL. In principle this is possible (as long as not 2 clients watch cannels on different frequencies on the same time.) But I don't know how to do this.

Here are two links which describe how to stream channels of a specific frequency with VLC. May you can change in a way that it work with Serviio.
https://evilshit.wordpress.com/2013/08/ ... using-vlc/
https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation ... HowTo/VLM/
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Re: DVB-T USB tuner in server

Postby mackowiakp » May 8th, '14, 07:07

Another way is to use something like this:

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ssh -X -p 666 -i /home/maciek/.ssh/id_rsa media@media env LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8 /usr/bin/kaffeine


As You can see, ssh works on port 666 and starts kaffeine on server but display results on my PC. Nice but the problem is audio redirection. Is any way to redirect audio together with video and keyboard/mouse?
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