TS Info

Introduction

After some discussion on IRC regarding availability of a Linux utility to display MPEG-TS info from UDP / RTP streams, I have decided to have a go at writing something to do just this.

I will hopefully be using libdvbpsi for a lot of the parsing duties. I am aware of tools like dvbsnoop, but they don't quite meet the requirements. I'm looking for something similar to TSReader Lite, without the licensing issues and win32 dependency.

So the question is what features would people like to see? So far I have:

• Ability to read MPEG-TS wrapped in both raw UDP, and RTP/UDP
• Ability to use linux-dvb devices
• Display of a tree hierarchy with PAT / PMT / SID / PID information
• Display NIT table if it exists
• Calculation of bandwidth of each PID, as well as percentage bandwidth used by each PID

Any wishes or ideas would be welcome at this stage.

Andy (gatty).