SoftOC is a suite of software tools for generating, playing and analysing MPEG-2 Transport Stream content.
It can be configured via a simple XML configuration file for test and lab usage.
SoftOC supports the following content types:
- MPEG-2 Transport Streams with service (PAT, PMT) ) and network (BAT, NIT) tables
- DSM-CC Object and Data carousels.
- HbbTV AIT signaling
- SSU download
- EN 300/468 tables for EIT
- Generic free-form table definition
SoftOC provides a playout module to generate real-time feeds of MPEG-2 Transport Streams over UDP.
SoftOC provides an analysis module to decode MPEG-2 Transport Stream content
The UDP output can be played out to an ASI interface or RF modulator, or it may be captured using tcpdump and replayed as a reproducible test resource.
