GETSTREAM(8)

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✨ NAME ✨

GETSTREAM — Lightweight DVB Streaming tool 💅

okay so bestie, before you panic: this is a section 8 man page, which means it's a system admin / daemon-adjacent kinda tool. yes it's giving "I live in /usr/sbin" energy. let's get into it 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

getstream [OPTION]

that's it. one binary, options, no drama. slay. ✨

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so picture this: GETSTREAM is a lightweight tool that streams a full DVB-S transponder into individual Multicast groups — one per program — right into the local area network. 🛰️💖

and then... symbol tables. 🎀

(yes that's literally how the page ends that thought. the man page said it, not me. we respect the source material fr fr 😭)

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -d — start GetStream in debug mode. spill the tea, getstream, tell us everything 🔍✨
  • -c config-file — mandatory path to the configuration file. like, you cannot skip this one bestie, it's not optional, it's mandatory mandatory 💀 see the package documentation for examples. 📄

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

GETSTREAM was writter by Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org> 💜

this manual page was writter by Herve Rousseau <herve@moulticast.net>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). 🫶

both of them "writter" it and honestly? iconic. we keep the original spelling because that's the lore. 👑

and that's the whole page, bestie! 🦋 this edition is version 20070419, dated 2007-06-06, and it lives in the GETSTREAM(8) section of the manual. go stream a transponder, ily, bye 💖✨🎀

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