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(Jun 13, 2005) First public release

What is it ?

This is not a hoax ! With a PC running Linux and a recent VGA card,you can emit a real digital TV signal in the VHF band to your DVB-T set-top box.

DVB-T emitters are usually very expensive professional devices. Nowwith a standard PC you can broadcast real DVB-T channels ! Everest home edition.

Examples to transmit PAL or SECAM analog signalsdirectly to your TV are also presented.

What do you need ?

A good knowledge of X Window and Linux and basic knowledge in electronics.
A DVB-T set-top box able to receive VHF signals with a bandwidthof 8 MHz (unfortunately most decoders sold in UK only receive UHFsignals). You can use French DVB-T receivers which accept VHF and UHFRF signals.
A PC with a recent VGA card able to display in resolutions up to4096x2048 with 8 bit per pixel with a pixel clock of exactly76.5 MHz. ATI Radeon 9200SE are reported to work (their PLL cangenerate every frequency which is a multiple of 2.25 MHz up to 400MHz). Other VGA cards may work too. If your card cannot generate a76.5 MHz pixel clock, I can provide alternate images to do some testing.
A cable connecting the VGAoutput to the set-top box RF input. It is possible to useantennas, but since the transmit power is very low, it is better tobegin with a cable connection.

Screenshots

Here are some screenshots showing the transmitted pictures. A Netgem iplayer DVB-T set-top box wasused as receiver. The On Screen Display of the set-top box shows thesignal parameters and quality. The pictures were grabbed using a PC TVgrabber connected to the composite video output of the set-top box.

How to proceed ?

Add the following configuration at the end of your X Window serverconfiguration file (usually /etc/X11/XF86Config or/etc/X11/Xorg.conf):This configuration won't be used by default by the X Window server, soyou can leave it in your default X Window configuration.VideoCard0 is assumed to be the name of your default videocard.
Launch an X server using this configuration (we assume the display:0 is your already running X11 display):Your monitor will of course not be able to display anything becausethe timings are far from correct VESA timings. Unless you are using avery old monitor, there is no chance you can destroy it..
Wait a few seconds and switch back to the starting X11 display (inmost Linux distributions Ctrl-F7 does it). Then look at the X11 logfile to see if everything was OK (usually in /var/log/XFree86.1.log or/var/log/Xorg.1.log).
Download the following gray level image: dvbt.pgm.gz and decompress it.
Mikandi gold mod free download android. Display it on the :1 X11 display:
Switch to the :1 display (usually with Ctrl-F8 or Ctrl-F9, yourmonitor will blank) and connect the set-top box RF input to the VGAoutput using the cable you made.
Configure your DVB-T set-top box to do a manual scan on channel 5(178.75 MHz central frequency). After a few seconds, it should find avalid DVB-T signal (parameters: QAM 16, fft=2K, guard=1/32,conv=2/3). Two new channels should appear: Lena Picture andBalears Picture. Each one should display a nice stillpicture.
You can also try the PAL (pal.pgm.gz) or SECAM (secam.pgm.gz) analog signals. You need to connect theVGA cable directly to your TV RF input and to use the dac1X11 mode instead of dac2 (edit the X11 configuration file):Then by tuning your TV on the VHF channel 5 (176.00 MHz imagefrequency) you should see a black and white Lena picture.

How does it work ?

Every VGA card contains high speed Digitalto Analog Converters (DACs), one for each Red, Blue and Greencomponent. Here we use only the red DAC. The provided images have beencomputed so that the signal output to the DAC is a valid RF signal.

As we did not want to generate a 176 MHz signal directly, we use thefact that the VGA DACs generate a lot of harmonics. The real generatedDVB-T signal has a central frequency of 25.71 MHz. Then the secondharmonic has a frequency of 25.71+2*76.5 = 178.71 MHz which is almostexactly the central frequency of the VHF TV channel 5.

The DVB-T signal is generated with a DVB-T and DVB-H modulator I wrotefrom scratch. This is the most complicated step because the DVB-Tmodulation is quite complicated (COFDM modulation). Acustom polyphase filter is used to interpolate the baseband COFDMcomplex signal. Then it is translated to the 25.71 MHz frequency.