Cinegy TS Analyzer Tool

Use this tool to view inbound network, RTP, SRT and plain UDP TS packet details.

Linux builds, for Intel/AMD 64-bit are now created by the AppVeyor build but the general expectation for use on Linux would be to be running inside a Docker Container!

How easy is it?

Well, we've added everything you need into a single EXE again, which holds the Net Core 3.1 runtime - so if you have the basics installed on a machine, you should be pretty much good to go. We gave it all a nice Apache license, so you can tinker and throw the tool wherever you need to on the planet.

Just run the EXE from inside a command-prompt, and you will be offered a basic interactive mode to get cracking checking out your stream.

From v1.3, you can check out a .TS file and scan through it - just drag / drop the .TS file onto the EXE!

Starting with V4, there is a Dockerfile, so you can build your own container and use it like so:

docker build . -t mylocaltsanalyzer:latest -f .\Cinegy.TsAnalyzer\Dockerfile

You can then run it with something like this:

docker run --rm -it docker.io/library/tsanalyzer --sourceurl=srt://srt.cinegy.com:6000

Command line arguments:

With the migration to containers, the magic command-line arguments auto-documentation got broken - but we cleaned up the logic to encapsulate a more 'URL' style model instead. You can set up an appsettings.json file, set environment VARS, or inject command-line arguments like so:

Argument:

--sourceurl=srt://srt.cinegy.com:9000

ENV VAR:

CINEGYTSA_SourceURL=srt://srt.cinegy.com:9000

appsettings.json:

{
  "sourceUrl": "srt://srt.cinegy.com:9000"
}

Here is the list of settable parameters (in command-line-args style):

//Core settings
--ident="Analyzer1" //value tagged to core metric, which can be used in statistics aggregation and identification
--label="Cinegy Test Stream" //value tagged to core metric, which can be used in statistics aggregation and identification
--sourceUrl="srt://srt.cinegy.com:9000" //URL format of source - supports srt, rtp and udp schemes with optional source-specific formatting
--liveConsole=true //note - this is only supported on Windows, since more aggressive Console.Write operations fail on Linux

//Metrics-related settings
--metrics:enabled=false //default is true
--metrics:consoleExporterEnabled=true //default is false - used to enable console output of OTEL metrics
--metrics:openTelemetryExporterEnabled=true //default is false - used to enable exporting of OTEL metrics to endpoint
--metrics:openTelemetryEndpoint="http://localhost:4317" //default is that localhost value - used to specify OTEL collection endpoint URL
--metrics:openTelemetryPeriodicExportInterval=1000 //in milliseconds, default is 10 seconds - used to control frequency of data samples pushed via OTEL

To read more about how these settings can work, and how to transform console arguments to JSON or ENV vars, see the MS documentation here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/extensions/configuration

So - what does this look like when you point it at a complex live stream? Here is a shot from a UK DVB-T2 stream:

Network Details - srt://srt.cinegy.com:9000             Running: 00:00:01
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Total Packets Rcvd: 694
Total Data (MB): 0              Packets per sec:636
Period Max Packet Jitter (ms): 0.0      Corrupt TS Packets: 0
Bitrates (Mbps): 6.39/6.47/6.39/6.39 (Current/Avg/Peak/Low)
PCR Value: 21:49:38.425, OPCR Value: 00:00:00.000, Period Drift (ms): 0.00

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TS PID: 4095    Packet Count: 4443              CC Error Count: 0
TS PID: 8191    Packet Count: 265               CC Error Count: 0
TS PID: 4097    Packet Count: 98                CC Error Count: 0
TS PID: 4096    Packet Count: 32                CC Error Count: 0
TS PID: 0       Packet Count: 10                CC Error Count: 0
TS PID: 256     Packet Count: 10                CC Error Count: 0

Service Information - Service Count: 1
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Elements - Selected Program Service ID 1 (first 5 shown)
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PID: 4095 (H.264 video)
PID: 4097 (MPEG-1 audio)

Just to make your life easier, we auto-build this using AppVeyor - here is how we are doing right now:

You can check out the latest compiled binary from the master or pre-master code here:

AppVeyor TSAnalyzer Project Builder