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Compiled the somewhat obscure open source project OpenCaster and I'm already able to achieve what I'm looking for from the command line, so at least I'm one step of the way there. Just leaving this in case anyone ever digs up this old thread trying to do the same thing as I. Cheers, and thanks again...

As far as I am aware, the old ts-out hack would not address your use case any better than the demuxdump does. Neither of those will do pacing; they only work if the input itself is paced (e.g. DVB tuner), or if the output does not need pacing (e.g. recording to file). To stream all programs, you ne...

Thanks for the tips, kmf31! I'll look into those options and see if I can craft a more reasonable stream. In the meantime, yes, the majority of video we test with is MPEG2, though we still need to run tests with MPEG4/h264 from time to time (even if many of the decades-old settop boxes some of our c...

Found one more useful thing that might lead me somewhere, but I'm still working on understanding it. Found this line in the release notes for 2.1.6 to 2.2.0: --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234 Instead o...

I work in a cable lab and we often need to loop content that is not easy to acquire directly via satellite at any given time for testing services. Currently, all of our streaming is done off a Sencore platform, which, to keep it brief, I'd like to replace with an open-source linux platform that I wi...