DVB-over-IP set-top box software for the Raspberry Pi.
It requires Tvheadend running on a server (or on same pi)
GPU memory should be a minimum of 128MB in config.txt
gpu_mem=128
pidvbip requires the following dependencies:
libmpg123-dev libfaad-dev liba52-dev libavahi-client-dev libfreetype6-dev libavformat-dev
After installing the above libraries, you can build pidvbip by typing "./configure && make" in the source code directory.
pidvbip requires that the MPEG-2 hardware codec is enabled (by purchase of the license). Early versions of pidvbip have a software MPEG-2 decoder but this was removed in February 2013 to simplify maintenance and development of the main hardware playback code.
The CPU-decoding version is still available at https://github.com/mikerr/pidvbip-cpu which doesn't require the hardware codec, but does need a faster pi model ( pi 2 or 3)
There are three ways for pidvbip to locate the tvheadend server:
-
Via the command line - e.g. ./pidvbip mypc 9982
-
Via the config file pidvbip.conf. See pidvbip.conf.example for the list of possibe configuration values.
-
If no host and port are configured via the command-line or the config file, pidvbip will use avahi. To do this you need to ensure that tvheadend is compiled with avahi support and avahi-daemon is running on both the machine running tvheadend and the Pi running pidvbip.
As soon as pidvbip starts it will connect to tvheadend, download the channel list and all EPG data, and then tune to the first channel in your channel list and start playing.
You can optionally specify a channel number as a third parameter to skip directly to that channel (only when also specifying the host and port on the command-line).
Once running, the following keys are mapped to actions:
'q' - quit
'0' to '9' - direct channel number entry
'n' - next channel (numerically)
'p' - previous channel (numerically)
'y' - switch to the previously viewed channel
'i' - show/hide current event information
'h' - toggle auto-switching to HD versions of programmes from an SD channel
' ' - pause/resume playback
'c' - display list of channels and current events to the console
- Also shows basic onscreen channel listing, whilst onscreen use
- d for down a screen of channels, or u for up a screen of channels in listing
'o' - To toggle subscribe/unsubscribe (idle) on current channel
'a' - Cycle through available audio streams
'z' - Force 4:3 (pillarbox) or 16:9 (fullscreen) display
's' - Take a screenshot (filename is ~/pidvbip-NNNNNNNNNNN.ppm)
'w' - Crop video to remove BT Sport Europe HD "L" graphics (a hack!)
pidvbip currently supports hardware decoding of H264 and MPEG-2 video streams, and software decoding of MPEG, AAC and A/52 (AC-3) audio streams. Multi-channel audio streams are downmixed to Stereo.
(C) Dave Chapman 2012-2013
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.