TSDuck Library for C++

TSDuck is a toolkit which manipulates MPEG Transport Streams (TS).

As a product, TSDuck provides many different command-line tools and plugins. Internally, the architecture of TSDuck is made of a large shareable library (tsduck.dll on Windows, libtsduck.so on Linux and BSD systems, libtsduck.dylib on macOS). Most of the valuable processing is performed by the various C++ classes from the TSDuck library. All command-line tools and plugins are usually small wrappers around this library.

The TSDuck library offers generic C++ classes for operating systems features as well as specialized classes for MPEG/DVB transport streams. This library can be used as a general-purpose C++ library for third-party applications, outside the TSDuck tools and plugins.

The diagram below illustrates the TSDuck software architecture.

TSDuck software architecture

This set of documentation is a reference for the TSDuck library. It can be used either by TSDuck maintainers and developers of third-party applications.

For developers of third-party applications:

• Referencing the TSDuck library from your application
• A tutorial on the TSDuck C++ classes
• C++ classes in alphabetical order
• C++ classes by category
• Header files

For TSDuck maintainers:

• Building TSDuck
• Testing TSDuck
• A tutorial on developing TSP plugins
• Developing TSDuck extensions
• Contributing to TSDuck