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6 dvbv5-tools - DVBv5 Tools
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8 Set of DVBv5 tools, bundled together with libdvbv5
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10 DVBv5 Tools is a small set of command line utilities that was developed
11 to be compliant with the newer features provided by version 5 of the
12 DVB API. The tools should also be backward compatible with the older v3
13 DVB API. They were written using libdvbv5.
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15 It is composed of 4 tools:
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17 · dvbv5-scan - Scans the channel transponders and gets the services
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20 · dvbv5-zap - Locks into a channel (zap), allowing other applications
21 to get the stream at the dvr devices or to monitor the stream;
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23 · dvb-fe-tool - Lists frontend properties and allow to manually set the
24 DVB frontend
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26 · dvb-format-convert - Converts from/to other formats used by DVBv3
27 apps into the dvbv5 format.
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29 The DVBv5 default file format is formed by a channel name, followed by
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33 For example, this is a channel file with one DVB-C channel on it:
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35 [CHANNEL]
36 DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A
37 FREQUENCY = 573000000
38 SYMBOL_RATE = 5217000
39 INNER_FEC = NONE
40 MODULATION = QAM/256
41 INVERSION = AUTO
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44 And this is (part of) a service (zap) file, produced from the above
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48 SERVICE_ID = 4
49 VIDEO_PID = 42
50 AUDIO_PID = 257
51 PID_f1 = 768
52 FREQUENCY = 573000000
53 MODULATION = QAM/256
54 INVERSION = AUTO
55 SYMBOL_RATE = 5217000
56 INNER_FEC = NONE
57 DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A
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59 [TNT]
60 SERVICE_ID = 48
61 VIDEO_PID = 336
62 AUDIO_PID = 337 338 849
63 PID_86 = 816
64 FREQUENCY = 573000000
65 MODULATION = QAM/256
66 INVERSION = AUTO
67 SYMBOL_RATE = 5217000
68 INNER_FEC = NONE
69 DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBC/ANNEX_A
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71Version 1.16.3 Mon Dec 17 2018 dvbv5-tools(3)