dtvTools - Professional Tools for Analysis and Monitoring of Digital TV Broadcasts

Real-Time Analysis and Monitoring of Digital TV Broadcasts ATSC, DVB, ISDB

RF Measurement DVB-T, DVB-T2, DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-C

Loudness and Audio Analysis and Monitoring

Transport-Stream Analyzer ATSC, DVB, ISDB

The most comprehensive collection of professional tools for Analysis, Monitoring, Maintenance and Test of Digital TV Broadcasts.

SAMcorder - Real-Time Broadcast Analyzer

Editions: ATSC – DVB – ISDB
TS Input Interfaces : RF – IP – ASI – File
Analysis & Monitoring Layers :
RF – MPEG (TR 101 290) – EPG – Subtitle/CC – Teletext – DSMCC – MHP/HbbTV
Program bit-rate measurements
PID bit-rate measurements
IP streaming :
TS – Program – single PID’s
TS recorder
SNMP Monitoring

SAMitor - Video & Audio Monitoring

unlimited number of monitor walls and monitors within a wall
support of all major video and audio codecs
input via IP/UDP or IPC
video/image formats: MPTS – SPTS – PES – BMP – NV12 – JPG – PNG
audio input formats: MPTS – SPTS – PES – WAV
dump and/or stream each single audio/video
create and stream video image snapshots
video-monitoring: freeze, black-screen, signal-loss, bit-rates
audio-monitoring: freeze, silence, signal-loss, bitrates
SNMP monitoring

SAMbuddy-RF - DVB RF-Measurement

support of DVB-T – DVB-T2 – DVB-S – DVB-S2 – DVB-C
support of a wide range of common RF receiver HW, i.e. no special RF receiver necessary
RF measurements : SignalStrength, C/N, MER, BERaV, PER, …
Stream Parameters : Modulation Standard, TS Bitrate, CellID, …
Modulation Parameters: Frequency, Bandwidth, CodeRate, Guard, …
Constellation Diagram
streaming entire TS for further analysis and monitoring
SNMP monitoring

SAMbuddy-T2MI - T2-MI Real-Time Analyzer

T2-MI Input Interfaces : IP – File – ASI
analysis acc. TR 101 290
MI-TS and Super-Frame monitoring
signaling analysis L1-Pre, L1-Post, L1-Dyn
support of multi-PLP (MPLP)
parameter monitoring of all PLPs simultaneously
Timestamp packet monitoring
real-time extraction of all PLPs and streaming them for further analysis
streaming entire TS for further analysis and monitoring
cross-check T2-MI parameters against modulator RF output
SNMP monitoring

SAMloudio - Loudness & Audio Analyzer

unlimited number of audio inputs
support of all major audio codecs
input via IP/UDP or IPC
audio input formats: MPTS – SPTS – PES – WAV
Integrated gated Loudness over past hour, 6 hours, 24 hours
Momentary and Short Term Loudness
True Peak Level (TPL) measurement
Loudness Range
Audio Freeze and Silence detection
SNMP monitoring

SAMalyzer- Transport-Stream Analyzer

Editions: ATSC – DVB – ISDB
listing and in-depth analysis of all SI/PSI tables
listing of all content PIDs incl. exact purpose
EPG Viewer
T2-MI analysis
T2-MI PLP extraction and analysis
PES/SPS analysis
display channel allocation

SNMP based Monitoring

SAMager-Agent – SNMP Agent

support of SNMPv2 GET, GET NEXT, GET BULK, SET and TRAP
individual configuration of error and warning thresholds
user defined global state monitoring
detailed TRAP configuration
capable of unattended operation at 24/7

SAMager-Console – SNMP Client

one SAMager-Console instance supports monitoring of up to 100 multiplexes
versatile status views
definition of individual monitoring templates
beside SNMP also notifications via eMail or SMS
live TS snapshot pulling for local in-depth analysis
visual audio/video confidence monitoring

Mobile TV Viewer

Editions: ATSC – DVB – ISDB
watch up to 9 programs simultaneously
multi-tuner support, i.e. several multiplexes can be received via several tuner devices simultaneously on a single machine
channel scan
EPG display
Transport-Stream recording

Screen Capture & Share

CaptShare is a powerful tool to share entire screen of monitors or parts of them to an unlimited number of remote locations and different devices. E.g., this tool can be used for visual confidence monitoring on many platforms and operating systems via HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)

Features :

support of multi-monitor environment, including Virtual Monitors
support of unlimited number of screen captures
capturing of:
- entire screen of single monitor or of all monitors
- single application window
- screen area
- image files
- local audio output
sharing of the captures to remote loactions via:
- HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)
- HTTP
- IP/UDP
- FTP

DVB-T2 Data-Rate Calculator

DVB-T2 Data-Rate calculator is a helpfully and easyy to use tool for convenient calculation of DVB-T2 data-rates.

Features :

calculate DVB-T2 data-rates from given paramter set
calculate data-rate from a recorded Transport Stream (DVB-T, DVB-T2, DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-C, DVB-H)
the TS data-rate gets derived from the NIT table or from the PCR information

ASN.1 Decoder

ASN.1 Decoder is a helpfully tool for decoding of binary data which are encoded according to ASN.1 basic encoding rules (BER). E.g. it can be used to decode SNMP messages.

Features :

decoding ASN.1 BER coded hex strings
ASN.1 Tag, Length and Value are highlighted separately
comfortable result tree-view
results are represented in XML structures