pydvbcss

DVB protocols for synchronisation between TV Devices and Companion Screen Applications.

Release:0.4.0-release
Licence:Apache License v2.0.
Source:https://github.com/BBC/pydvbcss/tree/0.4.0/
How to install:https://github.com/BBC/pydvbcss/tree/0.4.0/README.md
Changelog:https://github.com/BBC/pydvbcss/tree/0.4.0/CHANGELOG.md

This collection of Python modules provides clients and servers for the network protocols defined in the DVB “Companion Screens and Streams” (CSS) specification ETSI 103 286 part 2. There are also supporting classes that model clocks (e.g. to represent timelines) and their inter-relationships.

Use it to build clients and servers for each of the protocols (CSS-WC, CSS-CII and CSS-TS) that mock or simulate the roles of TV Devices and Companion Screen Applications for testing and prototyping.

To use this library you need to have a working understanding of these protocols and, of course, the Python programming language.

Getting started

  1. Install, following the instructions in the README.
  2. Try to Run the examples.
  3. Read the docs for the DVB CSS Protocol modules.
  4. Use the library in you own code

State of implementation

This library does not currently implement the CSS-TE or CSS-MRS protocols (from the DVB specification).

There are some unit tests but these mainly only cover the calculations done within clock objects and the packing and unpacking of JSON messages.

Upgrading from previous versions

See the release notes / change log for details of what is new in this version of pydvbcss.

License and Contributing

pydvbcss is licensed as open source software under the terms of the Apache License v2.0.

See the CONTRIBUTING and AUTHORS files for information on how to contribute and who has contributed to this library.

Contact and discuss

There is a pydvbcss google group for announcements and discussion of this library.