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.


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