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Using VBIT2 on Windows
VBIT2 is primarily intended to be used on a Raspberry Pi to generate a t42 packet stream for raspi-teletext, however the teletext data can be used for other applications where a live packet stream is required.
Vbit2 can be compiled for Microsoft Windows using msys2 and binary releases are provided.
On its own the vbit2.exe
is not of much use and will simply print an error to the console and exit. You must provide a directory of .tti page files such as Teefax and tell VBIT2 where to find it using the --dir
command line argument. If no directory argument is given vbit2 will attempt to look for a directory named pages
in the current working directory.
VBIT2 will look in the pages directory for a file named vbit.conf
. This enables the setting of various configuration options for the generated teletext service. (see Manual configuration)
Once invoked with a valid page directory VBIT2 will begin outputting teletext packets to the console. This output can be piped into some other program that consumes t42 packets. It should attempt to read 42×n×50
bytes per second, where n
is the number of lines per field set in the vbit.conf
file (default 16).