dvb_capture

Exercise in processing MPEG Transport Streams broadcast over DVB-T

Dependencies

• Windows (Testing on Windows 7)

• DVB-T Tuner

  • Testing with "August DVB-T210" USB Freeview HD TV Tuner

• DirectShow 'base classes', as provided with Windows SDK 7.1

  • Note: you need to build X64 Debug + Release targets for the multimedia/directshow/baseclasses sample

Goals

• Learn how to work with a DVB-T tuner with Microsoft TV Technologies + DirectShow

  • Microsoft TV Technologies Internals
  • Microsoft Broadcast Device Architecture

• Learn how to stream an MPEG Transport Stream from a DVB-T Tuner

• Learn how to filter an MPEG Transport Stream in to multiple services (/channels)

• Learn how to filter elementary streams for each service, so they can be muxed for playback offline

• Learn how to process DVB / MPEG Transport Stream metadata

References

• DirectShow DVB-T Tuner graph requires MPEG Demux + TIF to work, even though we're not using them

• Frequencies for UK/FreeView transmitters