[linux-dvb] Re: DVB-T and Radio (and PID's)

[Philip Armstrong <phil@kantaka.co.uk>]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 04:57:34PM +0200, Sakari Aaltonen wrote:
> My Nova PCI card works quite well for TV. However, there are also
> some radio channels available on DVB-T. On the other hand, dvbstream
> wants exactly two PID's (video *and* audio), and I don't really know
> whether any video is broadcast on these radio channels. Here is some
> output from 'dvbtune -i' via xml2vdr:
> 
> YLE PEILI (RADIO):562000:V:0:27500:0:652:0:0:272
> 
> Judging by the TV channels, 652 is the audio PID. There is a '0' where   
> the video PID normally is (after the '27500'.) Well, dvbstream does not
> accept the zero as a valid PID.

I use the following to listen to DVB radio from my Nova-T card in the
UK:

  dvbstream -f <freq> -o <pid> | ts2es <pid> | mpg123-oss -b 128 -

which works fine for me.

ts2es is part of the dvb-mpegtools package in Debian. It's also
in apps/mpegtools in the DVB CVS iirc.

cheers,

Phil

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