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tsserve - act as a server which plays the given transport or program stream

tsserve <infile> tsserve <infile> -port <n> tsserve [switches] <infile> [switches]
TS tools version 1.11, tsserve built Nov 11 2008 17:15:49
Act as a server which plays the given file (containing Transport Stream or Program Stream data). The output is always Transport Stream.

<infile>
An H.222.0 TS or PS file to serve to the client. This will be treated as file 0 (see below).
-0 <file0> .. -9 <file9>
Specify files 0 through 9, selectable with command characters 0 through 9. The lowest numbered file will be the default for display.

General Switches:

Print out more detailed help information, including some less common options.
Suppress informational and warning messages.
Output additional diagnostic messages
Listen for a client on port <n> (default 88)
Ignore any audio data
Pad the start of the output with <n> filler TS packets, to allow the client to synchronize with the datastream. Defaults to 8.
Do not output sequence headers for fast forward/reverse data. Only relevant to H.262 data.

Program Stream Switches:

Output the program data (PAT/PMT) after every <n> PS packs. Defaults to 100.
Force the program to treat the input as MPEG-4/AVC.
Force the program to treat the input as MPEG-2.
Both of these affect the stream type of the output data.
If the audio stream being output is Dolby (AC-3), then the stream type used to output it differs for DVB (European) and ATSC (USA) data. It may be specified as follows:
Use stream type 0x06 (the default)
Use stream type 0x81
For information on using the program in other modes, see -details.
tsserve <infile> tsserve <infile> -port <n> tsserve [switches] <infile> [switches]
TS tools version 1.11, tsserve built Nov 11 2008 17:15:49
Act as a server which plays the given file (containing Transport Stream or Program Stream data). The output is always Transport Stream.

<infile>
An H.222.0 TS or PS file to serve to the client. This will be treated as file 0 (see below).
-0 <file0> .. -9 <file9>
Specify files 0 through 9, selectable with command characters 0 through 9. The lowest numbered file will be the default for display.

General Switches:

Print out more detailed help information, including some less common options.
Suppress informational and warning messages.
Output additional diagnostic messages
Listen for a client on port <n> (default 88)
Ignore any audio data
Pad the start of the output with <n> filler TS packets, to allow the client to synchronize with the datastream. Defaults to 8.
Do not output sequence headers for fast forward/reverse data. Only relevant to H.262 data.

Program Stream Switches:

Output the program data (PAT/PMT) after every <n> PS packs. Defaults to 100.
Force the program to treat the input as MPEG-4/AVC.
Force the program to treat the input as MPEG-2.
Both of these affect the stream type of the output data.
If the audio stream being output is Dolby (AC-3), then the stream type used to output it differs for DVB (European) and ATSC (USA) data. It may be specified as follows:
Use stream type 0x06 (the default)
Use stream type 0x81
For information on using the program in other modes, see -details.

The full documentation for tsserve is maintained as a Texinfo manual. Please check http://tstools.berlios.de for more information.

November 2008 tsserve 1.11