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.