tvoe (TV over Ethernet streaming server) is a lightweight DVB-S/S2 network streaming software. It can
serve many transponders on multiple tuners simultaneously and provides dynamic tuner allocation to the
clients, giving you the possibility to add more stations to the channel list than the tuner configuration
would be able to stream simultaneously.
tvoe is designed for a homogenous tuner configuration, i.e., if you are including DVB-S2-channels in your
channel list, all configured tuners should be able to be S2-capable. Also, tvoe only supports S2API for
tuner configuration. Some legacy systems and DVB-S1-only-drivers might not support S2API and thus cannot
be used with tvoe.
tvoe uses the same format for channel lists as the zap(1) utility from dvb-tools. They can be easily
generated using scan, wscan or other utilities supporting the zap file format. For example, to generate a
channel list of all channels on Astra 19.2E (mostly relevant for central Europe), you can do
scan /usr/share/dvb/dvb-s/Astra-19.2E > channels.conf
All channels listed in the channels.conf will be served by tvoe. If necessary, remove unused channels
from the list before using it.
Next, adjust the example config file to match your tuner configuration. Make sure to set the correct path
to the channel list. You can then start tvoe using tvoe -f CONFIGFILE
The streams can then be accessed via http://IP:CONFIGURED_PORT/by-sid/SID, where SID is the DVB service
ID of the requested station (the second-last column in the channel specification in channels.conf).
Additional URLs might be added in the future.