DVBlast

Are you looking for live streaming? Don't look any further! DVBlast is a simple and powerful MPEG-2/TS demux and streaming application.

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Version 3.0 • Linux • 80 KiB

Features

Lightweight program designed for extreme memory and CPU conditions

One runtime dependancy (libev), one build dependancy (biTStream)

CAM menus (MMI) support via an external application

The configuration file describing outputs can be reloaded without losing a single packet

Support for the new S2API of linux-dvb

IPv6 network support

UDP rather than RTP output for IPTV STBs which don't support RTP

Open Source: GPLv2

High-Performance Streaming

DVBlast is written to be the core of a custom IRD, CID, or ASI gateway, based on a PC with a Linux-supported card. It is very lightweight and stable, designed for 24/7 operation.

DVBlast does not do any kind of processing on the elementary streams, such as transcoding, or remultiplexing. If you were looking for these features, switch to VLC. It does not stream from plain files (have a look at multicat instead).

DVBlast compiles and run on Linux and Mac OS X (with limited feature set).

Inputs - Outputs

DVBlast supports several input methods:

linux-dvb-supported cards (DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-C, DVB-T...) with or without CI interface
DVB-ASI cards (from Computer Modules or Deltacast)
UDP or RTP, unicast or multicast, streams carrying a transport stream

It outputs one or several RTP streams carrying transport streams with:

hardware or software PID filtering
PID-based or service-based demultiplexing
optional descrambling via CAM device
optional DVB tables
optional PID and SID remapping

Support

User support and development is handled in the dvblast-devel mailing-list.

Development

Hackers can participate to the development using git. The code is accessible from https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dvblast.git and you can browse the source online.