The Hardware came bundled with EyeTV 3 software. So far I have been very happy with the package. However, I wish to add another TV Tuner to my MAC so that I can record two programs at once. I am a little dismayed by the possibility of having to purchase another $140+ TV tuner when PC-based USB TV Tuners cost as little as $30.
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I recently got a USB stick tuner for my laptop but have no tuner software. The stick is Intel CE9500 based and the drivers installed fine. I tested it with trial DVB Dream which worked fine.
What I want is just a simple tuner and EPG for Freeview, I don't need a PVR and the extra complication and program overhead. Any suggestions? Comments
Not quite ready yet. Will soon be updated.
Dabtools IntroductionThis is a fork of basicmaster/dabtools for use on Mac OS X. The aim is to provide a complete working DAB/DAB+ receiver solution for both command line and GUI. The complete suite would consist off:. rtl-sdr (USB device interface and receiver). dabtools (for dab2eti DAB ensemble decoder). dablin (actual tuner to select an ensemble channel). mpg123/sox or similar to play the received audio stream (MP2 or MP4)dabtools is work-in-progress set of tools for reception, recording and playback of DAB and DAB+ digital radio broadcasts.
It currently supports any SDR tuner supported by the RTL-SDR project.It is heavily based on David May's 'rtl-dab' SDR DAB demodulator, and wouldn't have been possible without their work (and other contributors to those projects).This Mac OS X port is just tweaks made to the basicmaster/dabtools code which is otherwise untouched.dabtools currently consists of the following tools:. dab2eti (receive a DAB ensemble and output an ETI stream to STDOUT). eti2mpa (extract an MPEG audio stream from an ETI stream)ETI is the standard file format for the storage and transport of a DAB ensemble. It is defined in ETSI 300 799.It consists of a set of fixed-size (6144 byte) frames, each containing 24ms of audio and other data.
Hardware supportNote that there is currently no way to specify the device. Dab2etiwill use the first RTL-SDR device it finds.dab2eti on an RTL-SDR requires around 68% CPU (on an Intel(R)Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz) to decode the BBC National DABensemble.There is an experimental Viterbi decoder (which uses x64 SSEinstructions, so will only compile for x64) which can be enabled byuncommenting the 'ENABLESPIRALVITERBI' line in the Makefile. Pleaseensure you do a 'make clean' whenever changing this option.This Viterbi decoder gives a massive performance boost, reducing CPUusage from about 68% to about 28% when used with an RTL-SDR device. RTL-SDR devicesdab2eti should work with any device supported by librtlsdr, but itseems that the E4000 tuner is the only one (amongst those I havetested) which is able to lock onto a DAB ensemble using auto-gain.For my other devices (one with an FC00013, and one with an R828D), Ineed to very carefully set the gain manually.To set the gain, you use the optional second parameter to dab2eti,which is the gain specified in tenths of a decibel.e.g. To record an ensemble broadcasting at 218.640MHz with 9dB gain./dab2eti 218640000 90 dump.etidab2eti will display the list of supported gain values - each tunersupports a different set of gain values. Buildingdabtools requires librtlsdr andlibfftw3-dev.
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