Streaming DVB
We at Flumotion stream a lot of TV and radio channels by acquiring them from DVB (either satellite or terrestrial) with the help of gstreamer and flumotion-dvb. I was browsing through some blogs today and found this completely hilarious entry (showing that KabelBW, supposedly a big ISP in Germany) capture their channels for streaming for their “IPTV Service” with the analog output from Dreambox set top boxes.
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:48 am
Free (through the Freebox) has been using Dreambox and VLC to provide TV over ADSL (over IP actually) to their customers. Basically the Dreambox got the DV-B feed, VLC unicast it to another VLC hosted on a server that will eventually recompress down to 2Mbits/s (at that time that was the limit) to multicast it on the network.
That was in 2003.
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:48 am
In a previous life, I worked with broadcast systems for five years (with several wellknown sat and cable operators) and I’ve seen a lot worse than this….
April 17th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Blog Hopper…
Hi There. I’m blog hopping….
May 18th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
thanks!