SolusTV / DVB Satellite

New in V2 · DVB Satellite

Satellite tuner cards in. Live channels out.

Put DVB tuner cards in one of your streaming servers and the panel becomes your head-end — no separate software. Tune your transponders, pick the channels you want, and use them as sources for your streams.

01 — your head-end

Every transponder and channel, live

See each transponder with its signal and quality, and every channel running on it with its bitrate — all on one page.

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SolusTV DVB Satellite page, dark theme, transponders with their channels
DVB Satellite four transponders, 20 channels runningclick to enlarge

02 — each channel

Every channel tells you what it carries

Codec, resolution, frame rate and audio language are read from the stream itself. Each channel gets its own stream address, ready to paste as a source.

4k · fhd · hd · sd audio language stream address
The details of a free-to-air channel: transponder, video, audio and its HTTP MPEG-TS address
Channel what it carries, and its addressclick to enlarge

03 — scan and pick

Scan, tick, done

Add a transponder, scan it in a few seconds, and tick the channels you want. They can run all the time, or only while someone is watching.

fast scan on demand always on
DVB Satellite page, light theme, transponders with their channels
Light theme the same head-endclick to enlarge
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How it works

Fit the cards. The panel does the rest.

When the panel finds tuner cards in a server, it sets up its satellite service by itself. From then on it's three steps: add a transponder, scan it, and pick your channels.

tuners

Many tuners per box

Every tuner is found by itself, and one tuner failing never touches the others.

scanning

Fast scanning

A scan lists a transponder's channels in seconds, while the other tuners keep streaming.

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Ready to use

Each channel is an HTTP MPEG-TS address, or a UDP / RTP push, unicast or multicast.

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Built for big boxes

Boxes with 16, 20 and 24 tuners are running in production today.

What you need

A server with tuner cards

A main server or load balancer of your panel on Ubuntu 20.04 or newer, with DVB-S / S2 tuner cards and their Linux driver. Proven on Digital Devices and TBS class cards.

DVB Satellite comes with the paid licence.

// measured on our own boxes
one box   141 channels · 656 Mbit/s out
our lab   48 tuners · 1,008 channels
a tuner fails back in ~6 s, the others carry on

Bring your dish into the panel

Tell us about your tuner cards and your line-up, and we'll tell you what to expect.