NAME¶
tvoe - TV over ethernet streaming
SYNOPSIS¶
tvoe [-h] [-c config] [-f]
DESCRIPTION¶
tvoe (TV over Ethernet streaming server) is a lightweight DVB-S/S2 network
streaming software. It can serve many transponders on multiple tuners
simultaneously and provides dynamic tuner allocation to the clients, giving
you the possibility to add more stations to the channel list than the tuner
configuration would be able to stream simultaneously.
tvoe is designed for a homogenous tuner configuration, i.e., if you are
including DVB-S2-channels in your channel list, all configured tuners should
be able to be S2-capable. Also, tvoe only supports S2API for tuner
configuration. Some legacy systems and DVB-S1-only-drivers might not support
S2API and thus cannot be used with tvoe.
tvoe uses the same format for channel lists as the
zap(1) utility from
dvb-tools. They can be easily generated using scan, wscan or other utilities
supporting the zap file format. For example, to generate a channel list of all
channels on Astra 19.2E (mostly relevant for central Europe), you can do
scan /usr/share/dvb/dvb-s/Astra-19.2E > channels.conf
All channels listed in the channels.conf will be served by tvoe. If necessary,
remove unused channels from the list before using it.
Next, adjust the example config file to match your tuner configuration. Make
sure to set the correct path to the channel list. You can then start tvoe
using tvoe -f CONFIGFILE
The streams can then be accessed via
http://IP:CONFIGURED_PORT/by-sid/SID, where
SID is the DVB service ID of the requested station (the second-last column in
the channel specification in channels.conf). Additional URLs might be added in
the future.
OPTIONS¶
- -h
- Display a short usage summary
- -c config
- Use the specified config
- --p pidfile
- Write process PID to given pidfile
- --q
- (quiet) - don't write debug output to stdout when starting.
- -f
- Start tvoe as a foreground process and disable forking to the background.
AUTHORS¶
tvoe is written by Dominik Paulus, inspired by the classic getstream utility but
designed for greater flexibility by not using a fixed transponder
configuration.
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Dominik Paulus. License: ISC license.
BUGS¶
At the moment, tvoe only supports S2API, even for normal DVB-S-streams.