[vlc] Re: DVB-T in Cologne/Germany

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Guido Flohr wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to stream DVB-T.  Using dvbstream with xine works like a charm
>
>     dvbstream -bw 8 -gi 4 -qam 16 -f 650000 337 338 \
> -o - | xine stdin:/
>
> but I am not able to "translate" the dvbstream calling syntax to vlc 
> syntax.
>
> The data for RTL Television in Cologne is for instance: channel 43 
> (650 MHz), modulation 16-QAM, error protection 2/3, guard interval 
> 1/4, PID 337.
>
> The corresponding output of dvbstream is:
>
>   guido at thecomputer:~> dvbstream -bw 8 -gi 4 -qam 16 -f 650000 -v 337 \
>     -a 338 -o - >/dev/null
>   dvbstream v0.4pre3 - (C) Dave Chapman 2001
>   Released under the GPL.
>   Latest version available from http://www.linuxstb.org/
>   Using DVB card "DST TERR"
>   tuning DVB-T (in United Kingdom) to 650000000 Hz
>   polling....
>   Getting frontend event
>   FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI 
> FE_HAS_SYNC
>   Event:  Frequency: 10602539
>           SymbolRate: 0
>           FEC_inner:  2
>
>   Bit error rate: 0
>   Signal strength: 10496
>   SNR: 20224
>   FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI 
> FE_HAS_SYNC
>   Output to stdout
>   Streaming 2 streams
>   Caught signal 2 - closing cleanly.
>
> How can I achieve the same with vlc?
>
Try:

 vlc -vvv dvb-t:adapter=0:frequency=650000000:fec=2:modulation=16:guard=1

the --program= I don't know.

I am not sure it is 100% correct. But in this file there is some more 
description: 
http://developers.videolan.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/vlc/modules/access/dvb/access.c?rev=1.29&cvsroot=VideoLAN&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

Basically someone should sit down and write this all in a doc. But it 
hasn't happened yet

I hope this helps you.

-- 

Many greetings,
Jean-Paul Saman

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