Re: [RFC 0/3] MPEG2/TS drop analyzer iptables match extension

[Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@diku.dk>]

On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Tuesday 2010-10-19 16:21, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
>>
>> This is my iptables match module for analyzing IPTV MPEG2/TS streams.
>> Currently it only detects dropped packets, but I want to extend it for
>> analyzing jitter and bursts.
>>
>> Jan Engelhardt convinced me that I should just send the module as-is
>> for review on the list.  I wrote the code in 2009, and have only done
>> some minor changes to make it work on kernel 2.6.35 since.
>
> This now lives in the mp2t branch (since NFWS already actually) of xt-a,
> and I have taken the liberty to start updating it to higher standards.
> Please watch that branch, as I don't have any MPEG equipment around me
> to do runtime tests.

Jan, I would actually like to maintain the source via my own git tree. 
And I would gladly accept your patches against that tree.

Since the workshop, I have been busy "Open Sourcing" the project my self. 
I now have a git repository, which also contains the collector daemon, 
web-code and database layout.  The git tree also contains some README 
documentation.  It for example contains a description of howto setup a 
testlab with MPEG2 streaming via VLC and controlled packet drops via 
tc-netem, so you can perform your runtime tests.

I didn't plan to release the project just yet, as I wanted to do some 
renaming.  E.g I want to rename the mp2t module to mpeg2ts, and I want to 
rename the collector daemon from tvprobe to iptv-analyzer.

The git tree is temporarily located on people.netfilter.org:

  git://people.netfilter.org/hawk/iptv-analyzer.git

I have bought the domain iptv-analyzer.org, but I have not installed any 
servers on that domain, yet.

Solvik Blum (Cc.ed), is currently helping me out with the web-frontend.

Cheers,
   Jesper Brouer

--
-------------------------------------------------------------------
MSc. Master of Computer Science
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen
Author of http://www.adsl-optimizer.dk
-------------------------------------------------------------------