TRANSMIT/RECEIVE

OF
DIGITAL VIDEO BROADCAST-TERRESTRIAL

Prepared By
Amaresh Prasad Grahacharya
 Transmission and Reception of DVB-T Radio Signals
Requirements:-
1>Two Laptops
2>DVB-T Transmitter
3>RTL-SDR Receiver
4>UBUNTU-OS 14.0 onwards.

The following figure shows Transmission of radio signal by using DVB-T as Transmitter & RTL-
SDR receives those radio signals as Receiver .

DVB-T RTL-SDR

RTL-SDR -RECEIVER:-

In one Laptop you have to install RTL-SDR. The Link is as follows:-

Link: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=111

Frequency range of
24 – 1766 Mhz
Rafael Micro R820T/2

Before RTL-SDR Installation the following packages need to be installed.

sudo apt-get install git

sudo apt-get install cmake
sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0.dev
sudo apt-get install build-essential

RTL-SDR Installation Packages :-

git clone git://git.osmocom.org/rtl-sdr.git
cd rtl-sdr/
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../ -DINSTALL_UDEV_RULES=ON
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
cp ../rtl-sdr.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
Then to stop the conflicting Linux DVB-T drivers from loading make a text file "Blacklist-rtl.conf”
in /etc/modprobe.d and in the text file write blacklist dvb_usb_rtl28xxu.

Steps to SET-UP RTL-SDR as DVB-T Receiver:

1) Insert the rtl-sdr dongle.

2) On terminal, run sudo modprobe dvb-usb-rtl28xxu
3)Installation of Vlc media player by following command:-
sudo apt-get install vlc
3) Run Vlc media player.
4)In Vlc, select open capture device and then set capture mode as Digital tv.
5) Choose the device (dvb-t) and configure the multiplex frequency and bandwidth with respect to
the sender’s configuration.

DVB-T – TRANSMITTER:-
On another Laptop you have to install DVB-T. The Link is as follows:-
Link: https://github.com/tsduck/hides-drivers

UT-100C Frequency Range support from 50 ~950 Mhz and 1250 ~1350
MHz with bandwith support 2MHz ~8MHz

DVB-T – TRANSMITTER Integrated Technology Express, Inc. ITE it9507 full featured DVB-T
transmission chip [ccHDtv].

Installation Instructions as follows:

1) Click on this link
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zcrqdf5xrvfa4wz/AACnUvOIG4OFG26w2uSfvuuDa/it950x_linux_v
16.11.10.1.zip?dl=1 and download zip file.

2) Unzip it.

3) cd /home/user/Desktop/it950x_linux_v16.11.10.1/IT950x_Driver/

4) Make driver
1. IT950x_Driver/make
2. IT950x_Driver/make install

5) Make testkit
cd /home/user/Desktop/it950x_linux_v16.11.10.1/IT950x_Testkit/
1. for testkit tx
IT950x_Testkit/IT950x_Testkit_Tx/make
2. for testkit rx
IT950x_Testkit/IT950x_Testkit_Rx/make

6) Run testkit_it950x_tx Tool (as root )

 .IT950x_Testkit_Tx/it950x_testkit_tx

7) Configure the modulation transmission parameters (choose option - 1 ) as required.

Lets the examples:-
Please Input constellation (0:QPSK 1:16QAM 2:64QAM): 2

=> Please Input Code Rate (0:1/2 1:2/3 2:3/4 3:5/6 4:7/8): 3

=> Please Input Interval (0:1/32 1:1/16 2:1/8 3:1/4): 3

=> Please Input Transmission Mode (0:2K 1:8K): 1

=> Frequency = 600000 Khz

=> Bandwidth = 6 Mhz

8) For normal file transfer, choose option - 9) Output Test (Streaming a TS File) and give the
respective file path.

9) For Live Webcam broadcasting the procedures are as follows:-

 Open VLC and then choose Convert/Save. Select video camera in capture mode.
 Click on Convert/Save. In Profile, select Video-MPEG-2+MPEG(TS).
 Tick display the output and in destination give the respective path of your ts file (where the
stream will be converted into ts file and stored).
 For Live Webcam broadcasting, choose option -9) Output Test (Streaming a TS File) and
give the same ts file path.