mts-utils

MPEG Transport Stream Utilities

Fork of tstools, formerly hosted at code.google.com/p/tstools.

This is a collection of utilities for working with MPEG data on 64-bit Linux.

The goal of this fork is not portability and not being a drop-in replacement, but to make it possible to compile all the utilities with a modern C++ compiler, and make them easy to package on a modern Linux distro.

Tested on Arch Linux with GCC 8.2.1 and GCC 10.1.0.

Requirements

• cxx
• SCons
• GNU make
• C++ compiler with support for -std=c++2a

Building and installing

Build a utility:

• cxx -C tsplay

Install the desired utility (use sudo if required):

• install -Dm755 -t /usr/bin tsplay/tsplay

Install the corresponding man page (use sudo if required):

• install -Dm644 -t /usr/share/man/man1 docs/mdoc/tsplay.1

Or build and install everything:

• sudo make install

The following utilites are available:

• tsplay
• es_test
• esdots
• es2ts
• esfilter
• esmerge
• esreport
• esreverse
• m2ts2ts
• pcapreport
• psdots
• psreport
• rtp2264
• stream_type
• ps2ts
• ts2es
• ts2ps
• ts_packet_insert
• tsdvbsub
• tsfilter
• tsinfo
• tsreport
• tsserve

TODO

• Fix all warnings.
• Use enum class for all enums.
• Add more comprehensive tests, to ensure that everything works while porting to C++17.
• Restructure header files, make *_fns.h just *_.h and place the function bodies that are not inline in .cpp files.
• Remove static from functions that doesn't need it.
• Use const std::string whenever possible.
• Use bool whenever possible, instead of int.

Additional info

The emphasis is on relatively simple tools which concentrate on MPEG (H.264 and H.262) data packaged according to H.222 (i.e., TS or PS), with a particular interest in checking for conformance.

Transport Stream (TS) is typically used for distribution of cable and satellite data. Program Stream (PS) is typically used to store data on DVDs.

The tools are focused on:

• Quick reporting of useful data (tsinfo, stream_type)
• Giving a quick overview of the entities in the stream (esdots, psdots)
• Reporting on TS packets (tsreport) or ES units/frames/fields (esreport)
• Simple manipulation of stream data (es2ts, esfilter, esreverse, esmerge, ts2es)
• Streaming of data, possibly with introduced errors (tsplay).

Running tests

cd common
cxx test

License

• MPL 1.1

Version

• 2.0.99