[FFmpeg-user] How to setup a DVB card with ffmpeg & ffserver

[Tom Evans]

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Mazen <mazen at pnettv.com> wrote:
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> How to setup DVB cards for live FTA channels?
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> The project is to stream and encode satellite channels. (IPTV)
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> Thanks in advanced
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Plug card in, scan for channels, tune it to a channel, give the data to ffmpeg.

If you are using linux, you can use the utilities w_scan and szap to
scan for channels and tune the (satellite) adapter respectively.
Having done that, you can access the MPEG-TS of the tuned channel by
reading from /dev/dvb/adapterN/dvr0. Google has plentiful instructions
on how to use w_scan/szap.

Cheers

Tom