Multiple DVB channels streamed by flumotion from same capture card

So, a recent feature I have added to flumotion-dvb is to be able to capture multiple channels from the same dvb adapter (as long as the channels are on the same multiplex). The screenshot shows both BBC1 and BBC2 being streamed from DVB-T in the UK. The flumotion flow config is on the right, totem and a gst-launch line playing the 2 streams at the top left and the flumotion admin UI on the middle left and pusleaudio volume control so i can choose which one I want to listen to at bottom left.

bbc1 and bbc2 streamed by flumotion

11 Responses to “Multiple DVB channels streamed by flumotion from same capture card”

  1. Tony Says:

    Rockon! All we need now is to integrate that into the PVR apps ;)

    Good work!

  2. Allan Says:

    That’s awesome news, I’ve always thought that getting multiple streams from the same multiplex was possible but I never found anything which would do it.
    Hopefully this will now mean you use 3 dual tuner cards to receive all 6 multiplexes inside a server and be able to make all of the freeview channels available over a network :D

  3. James Le Cuirot Says:

    Wow. I didn’t even know that was possible.

  4. Franceso Says:

    Hi. Just a clarification: is this a gstreamer dvb plugin capability, and you added support to it to the flumotion product or do we need flumotion-dvb?

  5. admin Says:

    Allan, totally.

    Francesco, this is possible with gstreamer without using flumotion but not to stream them over http.

    For example, to just record those 2 channels:

    gst-launch dvbbasebin frequency=505833330 code-rate-hp=3/4 modulation=”QAM 16″ bandwidth=8 trans-mode=2k guard=32 hierarchy=0 code-rate-lp=3/4 program-numbers=4164:4228 name=src .program_4164 ! queue ! filesink location=bbc1.ts src.program_4228 ! queue ! filesink location=bbc2.ts

  6. Mikael Says:

    I didn’t know gstreamer could do that!
    Have anyone tried this together with sasc-ng?

  7. admin Says:

    Mikael, it works with sasc-ng also.

  8. Pete Says:

    Does this work with DVB-C?

  9. admin Says:

    Pete, working on it. I finally have a DVB-C test situation to try with.

  10. Frans van Berckel Says:

    What got to be the Gstreamer pipeline to record 2 (or more) radio channels in the same multiplex? Is it tested with DVB-S yet?

  11. admin Says:

    Frans: the same kind of pipeline as in my earlier comment, and yes dvb-s is tested.

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