RTPFEED(1)

📦 version 0.6+cvs20090621, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ rtpfeed(1) ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the manual page for rtpfeed, a real one from the Debian distro, section 1 (that's user commands, the ones you just run 💅).

🦋 NAME 🦋

rtpfeed — feed a DVB-S card with an RTP unicast/multicast/broacast stream 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rtpfeed [ --group group ] [ --port port R] [ --vpid vpid ]  [ --apid
apid ]

rtpfeed --help

rtpfeed --version

like. that's the whole vibe check. you give it some flags, or you ask it for help, or you ask it for its version. simple. iconic. no notes. ✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so rtpfeed grabs a unicast, multicast or broadcast RTP stream off the network — and bestie, that stream is typically generated by dvbstream running on a server, iykyk — and it feeds that stream straight into a DVB-S card so it can be decoded and displayed. that's it. that's the whole job. and it ate. 🔥

here's the thing tho: an RTP transport stream coming from dvbstream can contain multiple streams — up to eight video streams and audio streams, lowkey a whole group chat in there — so if you wanna pick which ones to actually display, you can explicitly name them on the command line. main character selection energy. 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -g, --group addr — the IP address of the RTP stream. if you don't say anything, it's 224.0.1.2 by default. she has a default. she's prepared. 💅
  • -p, --port portnum — the IP port of the RTP stream. default? 5004. that's the one. 🌸
  • -v, --vpid vpid — the Video PID of the video stream you wanna display. and if you specify none at all? then all the ones present get fed to the DVB card. no cap, all of them. 🫶
  • -v, --apid apid — the Audio PID of the audio stream you wanna display. and yeah, same deal: if none is specified, all present ones get fed to the DVB card. (yes the flag letter is -v again in the original, i'm not fixing her, she's perfect as she is 😭)
  • --help — display this help and exit. the classic. the escape hatch. ✨
  • --version — output version information and exit. short, sweet, slays. 💖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

dvbstream(1), dumprtp(1), and ts2es(1)

go read those too, bestie, they're the friend group 🧚

💜 HISTORY 💜

parts of this program were taken from dumprtp.c by David Podeur. borrowing from your friends is self-care, periodt. 🍓

👑 AUTHORS 👑

rtpfeed was writteb (typo and all, we keep her exactly as she is, we don't touch the artifacts 🏺) by Guenter Wildmann, <g.wildmann@it-lab.at>, with parts taken from dumprtp.c by David Podeur.

this man page was written by Alastair McKinstry, <mckinstry@computer.org>.

and that's a wrap on the rtpfeed(1) page from Linux, dated 28 July 2002, shipped in the Debian manual set 💅✨ — 2002 really said "we're feeding DVB-S cards and we're doing it fabulously," and honestly? respect. bye bestie, go stream something 🦋💖

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