DVBlast
DVBlast is a simple and powerful MPEG-2/TS demux and streaming application.
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 macOS (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.
Contributions can be sent as pull requests in our github repository.
