TSDuck - The MPEG Transport Stream Toolkit
Abstract
TSDuck is an extensible toolkit for MPEG/DVB transport streams.
TSDuck is used in digital television systems for test, monitoring, integration, debug, lab or demo.
In practice, TSDuck is used for:
- Transport stream acquisition or transmodulation, including DVB, ATSC, ASI and IP multicast.
- Analyze transport streams, PSI/SI signalization, bitrates, timestamps.
- Monitor and report conditions on the stream (video and audio properties, bitrates, crypto-periods, signalization).
- On-the-fly transformation or injection of content and signalization.
- Modify, remove, rename, extract services.
- Work on live transport streams, DVB-S/C/T, ATSC, ASI, IP-TV, HTTP, HLS, SRT or offline transport stream files.
- Use specialized hardware such as cheap DVB or ATSC tuners (USB, PCI), professional Dektec devices, cheap HiDes modulators.
- Re-route transport streams to other applications.
- Extract or inject Multi-Protocol Encapsulation (MPE) between TS and UDP/IP.
- Analyze and inject SCTE 35 splice information.
- Extract specific encapsulated data (Teletext, T2-MI).
- Emulate a CAS head-end using DVB SimulCrypt interfaces to and from ECMG or EMMG.
- And more...
TSDuck is developed in C++ in a modular architecture. It is easy to extend
through plugins.
TSDuck is simple; it is a collection of command line tools and plugins. There is
no sophisticated GUI. Each utility or plugin performs only one elementary feature
but they can be combined in any order.
Through tsp, the Transport Stream Processor, many types of analysis and
transformation can be applied on live or recorded transport streams.
This utility can be extended through plugins. Existing plugins can be
enhanced and new plugins can be developed using a library of C++ classes.
Usage
TSDuck comes with a comprehensive User's Guide.
All utilities and plugins accept the option --help to display their syntax.
For programmers, TSDuck provides a large collection of C++ classes in one single library.
These classes manipulate, in a completely portable way, MPEG transport streams, MPEG/DVB/ATSC
signalization and many other features. See the programming guide
and its tutorial.
Building
TSDuck can be built on Windows, Linux and macOS systems. See the
building guide for details.
Download
Pre-built binary packages
are available for Windows, Fedora and Ubuntu. On macOS,
use the Homebrew packager.
The command tsversion --check can be used to check if a new version of TSDuck is available
online. The command tsversion --upgrade downloads the latest binaries for the current
operating system and upgrades TSDuck.
Project resources
TSDuck is developed by one single developer on spare time and on personal expenses.
You may consider contributing to the hardware and Web hosting costs
using 
License
TSDuck is distributed under the terms of the Simplified BSD License.
See the file LICENSE.txt for details.
Copyright (c) 2005-2020, Thierry Lelegard
All rights reserved