Astra (software)

Astra
Original author(s)	Andrey Dyldin
Developer(s)	Cesbo Ltd.

Stable release	4.4 (July 25, 2015 (2015-07-25)) 5.61 (October 19, 2015 (2015-10-19))
Development status	Active
Written in	ANSI C
Operating system	Linux
Type	Television, Digital Video Broadcasting
License	4.4 GPLv3 5.61 Proprietary
Website	cesbo.com

Astra is a professional software to organize Digital Broadcasting Service for TV operators and broadcasters, internet service providers, hotels, etc. Astra is an acronym for "Advanced Streaming Application".

Astra supports many protocols and standards to receive channels from different sources. Received channels prepares and transmits into the IP network. Built-in scripting language (Lua) allow to customize business logic of the application.

Features

Data format: MPEG-TS
Receiving formats and standards:
- DVB-S, DVB-T, DVB-C, ATSC, ASI
- RTSP ^[1]
- HTTP
- HLS ^[1]
- UDP, RTP
- MPEG-TS Files
Transmitting formats and standards:
- HTTP
- UDP, RTP
- MPEG-TS Files
- DVB ^[1]
Data processing:
- Descrambling: DVB-CI
- MPEG-TS Demultiplexing - extract single channel from the Multi Program Transport Stream
- MPEG-TS Multiplexing - combine several channels into single Multi Program Transport Stream ^[1]
- DVB-T2 MI Decapsulation ^[1]
- Analyzing MPEG-TS Streams
- Redundancy for incoming streams
- MPEG-TS PID Remapping and Filtering
Other:
- Scripting language: Lua
- Web-Interface ^[1]
- REST API for management ^[1]
- Telemetry and monitoring ^[1]
- Access Authorization ^[1]
- EPG Export (XMLTV or JSON) ^[1]

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Feature available only in proprietary version

External links

Official website
Source code repository on Bitbucket

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