SDR Television, Sept. 19th 2024
Simon Brown • September 19, 2024
QO-100 Beacon
SDR Television is a pure software solution for DVB-S2 H.264 / H.265 / AAC digital television. No hardware such as the MiniTiouner is required, just a SDR such as Pluto or Lime if transmit support is required, otherwise even a RTL SDR suffices.
Here's a recording showing SDR Television playing content from the geostationary QO-100 beacon. This software is still being developed, tentative preview date before February 2025, official preview April 2025.
- CPU load is low - typically 2% or less of an i5-13600F
- MER is around 10 dB
- Diagnostic display show key decoding status values
Much more to come over the next weeks and months including transmit support.
BATC Net, May 22nd 2025 Here's a snippet from the British Amateur Television Club net on QO-100. I hope it doesn't scare you.
UI Refresh And More...
After too much grief, I've decided to stop using Wi-Fi to connect the small NUC systems in the computer room to my network: DX Cluster (Ubuntu) SDR Server (Windows) User Forums (Windows) These servers are in constant use, causing the wireless transmitter on my TP-Link AX50 to fail. By switching over to a wired network there's less demand on the wireless transmitter and the whole network has become far more reliable. In future I will only use Wi-fi when there's no alternative. I'm keeping a spare router ready just in case the AX50 fails.
Inside All this equipment is installed in my computer room, next to the office.
SDR Television video from Australia
Sounds Like... And before I start, may I apologise for the delay in finding the cause of the noise.
YouTube Many thanks to Tech Minds, aka Matt M0DQW for this very complimentary YouTube video. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
The first Major Update
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