[Hackrf-dev] DVB-T and DVB-T2

[Craig Barber]

Thanks for the fast response n0p but I cannot find that parameter?

On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 1:34 PM, n0p [Luis Bernal] <lbernal at gmail.com> wrote:

> The ts mux bitrate has to match the modulator's
> Avconv parameter -muxrate
> El 5/7/2015 14:11, "Craig Barber" <radiocraig28 at gmail.com> escribió:
>
>> The good news is I got it working, sort of, using channel_mhz = 8 -
>> however the picture and audio judders really badly, and basically plays
>> back really slow! I don't have a stream of UUUUUUUUUUU appearing in my
>> console window, so can't be buffer underruns, any ideas Simon?
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Craig Barber <radiocraig28 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Simon,
>>>
>>> I've tried your script today with my test TV but see no signal
>>> whatsoever on the TV although the hackrf is definitely transmitting. I've
>>> also tried with a pre-recoded mpeg2 file from avconv but no luck.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Craig
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:57 PM, Simon Kennedy <simon at thekennedys.info>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I feel slightly embarrassed as I subscribed to this list using an email
>>>> address that is redirected to my main email, so consequently replies sent
>>>> from my main email address were not coming from the correct address. Hence,
>>>> none of the replies I posted have been seen on the list. Oops!
>>>>
>>>> Here is my reply about this thread:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Craig,
>>>>
>>>> Check out Clayton's web page (who created the sdr-examples you refer
>>>> to) here <http://www.irrational.net/2014/03/02/digital-atv/>
>>>>
>>>> I amended his BladeRF script and I have put my HackRF version here
>>>> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/bdnzoa0kn01dfav/dvbt-hackrf_tx_sk.py?dl=0> for
>>>> download
>>>> My version transmits DVB-T on the lowest Freeview channel in the UK at
>>>> 474MHz (obviously only while using a dummy load). I successfully received
>>>> the transmission of my webcam image this way using an RTL-SDR dongle.
>>>>
>>>> The command I used was very heavily influenced (ok, basically copied)
>>>> from Clayton's examples:
>>>> avconv -f alsa -i hw:0,0 -f video4linux2 -s 640x480 -i /dev/video0 -vf
>>>> drawtext=fontfile=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMonoBold.ttf:text="TEST
>>>> ":x=440:y=420:fontsize=48:fontcolor=white at 0.6:box=1:boxcolor=black at 0.4
>>>> -vcodec mpeg2video -r 60 -b 2000000 -acodec mp2 -ar 48000 -ab 48000 -ac 2
>>>> -mpegts_transport_stream_id 1025 -mpegts_service_id 1 -mpegts_pmt_start_pid
>>>> 4096 -mpegts_start_pid 400 -f mpegts -y in.fifo
>>>>
>>>> I used a standard web cam to capture the image, sent the output to a
>>>> fifo file (in.fifo) and consumed the output through the python program with
>>>> the command:
>>>> ./dvbt_hackrf_tx_sk.py in.fifo
>>>>
>>>> The fifo file can be created using the command mkfifo in.fifo
>>>>
>>>> Run the avconv command and the python program in the same directory as
>>>> you created the fifo file in.
>>>>
>>>> I have also transmitted DVB-S which I have documented on my blog here
>>>> <http://photohamrad.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/transmitting-video-with-hackrf-blue.html>
>>>>
>>>> Simon.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 30 June 2015 at 17:35, Simon Kennedy <simon at thekennedys.info> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Can you tell us the command you used to get this error please.
>>>>> I remember that I got a smilar error but cannot look up how I solved
>>>>> it until I get home in a couple of hours.
>>>>> The key point is that the program is trying to open a UDP port to
>>>>> receive the data and error relates to the asignment of the argument you
>>>>> supply to the program to the variable 'port' in the program.
>>>>>
>>>>> Simon.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 30 June 2015 at 16:49, Craig Barber <radiocraig28 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Here's the error I get:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>>>   File "./dvbt-hackrf.py", line 123, in <module>
>>>>>>     main(sys.argv[1:])
>>>>>>   File "./dvbt-hackrf.py", line 31, in main
>>>>>>     port    = int(args[0])
>>>>>> ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'testdvbt'
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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