Assistance on Audio/Video streaming - Linux

[AdrianH]

Hello to the group, I am far away from actually being on air so I like to play in the home with things to understand concepts before i go and spend to much money.

I have been using linux for years now rather than Windows at home, I do have a Win10 laptop but that is used for receiving the downlinks from QO-100 so sits there with the Mini-Tiouner software running.

So I am stuck now with a few linux PC's not very powerful by todays standars, but do for me.

I have been struggling with linux to stream video and audio over a IP connection to another PC, I have had some success with ffmpeg and video alone is fine, add sound to it and I loose it with sound being presented before my mouth opens on the video. I was trying into the small hours this morning and most of Saturday.

So wondering if there are any guru's out there that can point me into the correct direction. I will try gstreamer next to see if I can fathom that.
My end goal if I can is as follows:
I have a linux desktop that runs gnu-radio driving a Hackrf-one to generate a DVB-S2 it presently just loops a saved .ts file and I can decode that with Mini-Tiouner all OK.

I am trying to stream video and audio to the computer, the idea being to understand bit rates and as I said, play. Should I be using some form of media server, Ice Cast or similar? A few of my small linux machines are headless so command line only.

Adrian

[AdrianH]

Had a bit of time away from this went to Doncaster Rally, a bit like the type of rallies I remember with boxes of junk all over the place.
Anyway I found a setup that gets the audio and video togther in vlc at least

ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -r 15 -s 640x480 -i /dev/video0 -vcodec mpeg2video -thread_queue_size 6000 -f alsa -ac 1 -i hw:1,0 -acodec mp2 -ac 1 -mpegts_transport_stream_id 1025 -mpegts_service_id 1 -mpegts_pmt_start_pid 0x0fff -mpegts_start_pid 0x0121 -f mpegts -y udp://192.168.1.64:6001/?pkt_size=1316

The next step is to try and get this into gnu-radio and see if the result can be seen on the receiver?

Adrian