Puffer is a research project in the computer science department at Stanford University. Please find more details in the FAQ and our research paper (USENIX NSDI '20 Community Award, IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize '21). Puffer receives six television channels using a VHF/UHF antenna and an ATSC demodulator, which outputs MPEG-2 transport streams in UDP.

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We wrote software to decode a stream to chunks of raw decoded video and audio, main-taining synchronization (by inserting black fields or silence)