linuxstb.org

Welcome to linuxstb.org. Over time, this site will grow into a guide for using standard PC hardware and the GNU/Linux operating system to create a multi-purpose set-top box. The current focus is on digital video and audio using DVB cards under Linux. All software is released under the GNU GPL.

Latest software releases

  • Mon 12 January 2004 - dvbtextsubs 0.2 released
    This adds support for ".vdr" files and fixes numerous bugs in version 0.1
  • Thu 01 January 2004 - dvbtextsubs 0.1 released
    This is the first release of a package for generating DVD subtitles from a DVB broadcast.
  • Fri 17 May 2002 - Sourceforge project created
    There is now a Sourceforge Project for the DVB tools. This includes a CVS archive and the "dvbtools-devel" and "dvbtools-cvs" mailing lists. There will be even less frequent releases on this site now - please use the CVS versions.
  • Sun 17 March 2002 - dvbtune 0.3
    This version of dvbtune fixes the DVB-T support which was broken in version 0.2, plus also includes other fixes and Diseqc support.
  • Thu 31 January 2002 - dvbstream 0.4pre2
    Second development release dvbstream. Includes ability to stream an MPEG-2 PS and a patch to add rtp support to mplayer.
  • Tue 29 January 2002 - dvbstream 0.4pre1
    Development release dvbstream. Includes experimental TELNET interface and "-o" option to stream data to stdout instead of the network.
  • Fri 25 January 2002 - dvbtune 0.2
    This version of dvbtune was contributed by Hilmar Linder and includes support for setting up IP over dvb.
  • Fri 25 January 2002 - rtptsaudio 0.2
    rtptsaudio now includes an built-in mpeg audio decoder (thanks to libmad) and many other options.
  • Sun 20 January 2002 - rtptsaudio 0.1
    rtptsaudio is a client to play audio streams broadcast by dvbstream.
  • Thu 27 December 2001 - dvbimage 0.1
    dvbimage displays still images retrieved from the Internet (i.e. webcams) on a dvb card.
  • Sat 24 November 2001 - dvbtune 0.1
    dvbtune supports dvb-S and dvb-T cards and allows command-line tuning. A major feature is the ability to dump the DVB Service Information to an XML file. A utility is included to convert these XML files into VDR's channels.conf format.
  • Mon 15 October 2001 - dvbstream 0.3
    dvbstream has been updated to support the latest tuning API changes in the driver. There are also some new features - PID mapping and simultaneous local viewing and streaming.
  • Mon 15 October 2001 - Information on dvb-T reception
    I have started a page describing dvb-T reception using the Hauppauge NOVA-t dvb-T PCI card.
  • Thu 6 September 2001 - dvbstream 0.2
    dvbstream has been updated to include an integrated DVB tuner. The package also includes a client provided by Guenter Wildmann to play streams using a second DVB card.
  • Tue 4 September 2001 - dvbstream 0.1
    dvbstream is an update of the ts-rtp program from www.linuxtv.org that implements live TS over RTP multicast streaming from a DVB card. It also includes a simple client.
  • Sun 17 June 2001 - pesdump 0.1
    pesdump is utility to record PES streams from a dvb card. Multiple instances can be run at the same time to record different streams from the same transponder.
  • Tue 20 February 2001 - dvbaudio 0.1
    dvbaudio is a small utility to record dvb audio channels as mpeg audio elementary streams. It can also act as a simple streaming http server.
  • Wed 7 February 2001 - dvbtext 0.1
    dvbtext is a teletext decoder for the the Siemens/Hauppauge DVB-S cards.