OpenCaster Contact: Lorenzo Pallara (l.pallara@avalpa.com) Introduction: This package is a collection of softwares to generate, process, play out, multiplex and broadcast MPEG2 transport stream format in a Linux system. Manual and tutorials: A .pdf manual is available in manual directory, the tutorials of the manual are in tutorials directory. Integration: OpenCaster has been successfully integrated with a long list of dvb products, among them there are products by Cisco/Scientific Atlanta, Ericsson/Tandberg, Eurotek, Harmonic/Scopus, MainConcept, Mitan, Screen Service, ... GUI: APE, Avalpa Playlist Editor will allow a graphical control of a simple audio/video/interactive playout system based on OpenCaster, keep tuned on www.avalpa.com Test: OpenCaster has been tested with Rohde & Schwarz DVM100L and Dektec StreamXpert Features: - output to DVB-S, DVB-T and DVB-C with pci hardware boards - output on multicast addresses for TS over IP/UDP (aka IPTV) - output to DVB-ASI with pci/usb hardware boards - output on file as store Transport Strem file - PSI generation (PAT, PMT, NIT, SDT, TDT, AIT, TOT, ...) - EPG/EIT generation - Object and data carousel generation and receivement (MHP, MHEG5, DVB-SSU, ...) - third party software AC-3, MPEG2 audio and MPEG2 video encoder support (ffmpeg among them) - MPEG2 hardware encoder support - IP encapsulation (MPE) - CBR transport stream muxing - PCR restamping - Null packet replacement - PID filtering - PID remappaing - Null packet insertion - Video buffer verifier - PCR timing verifier - PES headers analyzer - MPEG2 video and MPEG2/AC-3 audio ES header analyzer - fatcaps DVB-H support