TSSERVE(1)

💖 TSSERVE(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the tsserve page — it lives in the General Commands Manual, and it's literally the girl who gets you info about the streams inside a transport stream. no cap. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

tsserve — get info about the streams within a transport stream

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

tsserve [-details] [-err stdout] [-err stderr] [-quiet | -q]
        [-verbose | -v] [-port port_no] [-noaudio] [-pad filler_pkts]
        [-noseqhdr] [-prepeat pat_freq] [-h264 | -avc | -h262]
        [-dolby dvb | atsc] [-0] file0 [-1 file1] [-2 file2] ...

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so basically, tsserve acts as a server that plays the file you give it (a file containing Transport Stream or Program Stream data, mwah 🫶). and the output? always Transport Stream. always always. no exceptions, periodt.

🦋 Input 🦋

• infile — an H.222.0 TS or PS file to serve to the client. it gets treated as file 0 (more on that in a sec, iykyk 👇)
• -0 file0 .. -9 file9 — the way this works is you can specify files 0 through 9, and you select them with the command characters 0 through 9. the lowest numbered file is the default one for display. iconic behavior fr fr ✨

🌈 General Switches 🌈

• -details — prints out more detailed help info, including some of the less common options. the deep lore, bestie 📖
• -err stdout — write error messages to standard output (this is the default)
• -err stderr — write error messages to standard error (the Unix-traditional choice, very old money 💅)
• -v, -verbose — output extra diagnostic messages. she's chatty, we love that 🗣️
• -q, -quiet — suppress informational and warning messages. she's giving mysterious 🤫
• -port port_no — listen for a client on port port_no. default is 88 🚪
• -noaudio — ignore any audio data. sorry to the audio, she said not today 🙈
• -pad filler_pkts — pad the start of the output with filler_pkts filler TS packets, so the client can synchronize with the datastream. default is 8 🛋️
• -noseqhdr — do not output sequence headers for fast forward/reverse data. only relevant to H.262 data, so if you're not on H.262, this one's just standing there 💀

🎀 Program Stream Switches 🎀

• -prepeat pat_freq — output the program data (PAT/PMT) after every pat_freq PS packs. default is 100 🔁
• -h264, -avc — force the program to treat the input as MPEG-4/AVC
• -h262 — force the program to treat the input as MPEG-2

both of these affect the stream type of the output data, so pick your fighter wisely 👑

if the audio stream being output is Dolby (AC-3), then the stream type used to output it is different for DVB (European) and ATSC (USA) data. you can specify it like this:

• -dolby dvb — use stream type 0x06. this is the default 🌍
• -dolby atsc — use stream type 0x81 🇺🇸

and for info on using the program in other modes, see -details — she told you, she's got range 💜

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

tsinfo(1), pcapreport(1)

k that's the whole page bestie, you ate. this one's from Debian, dated October 28, 2015 — go forth and serve those streams, main character energy only 💖✨👑