telxcc

telxcc is utility extracting teletext Closed Captions from Transport Streams (DVB-T) into SRT text files.

telxcc is

• tiny and lightweight (few KiBs binary, no lib dependencies)
• multiplatform (Mac, Linux, Windows)
• modern (fully supports UTF-8, conforms to ETSI 300 706 Presentation Level 1.5)
• stable
• high performing (on Macbook with Intel SSD it processes TS files at speed of 210 MiBps, with less than 30 % 1 CPU core utilization, SSD is the bottleneck)
• easy to use

Build

$ make ↵

On Mac typically you can use clang preprocessor:

$ make CC=clang ↵

You can also copy any *.ts files into the current directory and build a profiled version (up to 3% performance gain on repeat tasks):

$ make profiled ↵

telxcc has no lib dependencies and is easy to build and run on Linux, Mac and Windows.

Command line params

$ ./telxcc -h ↵
telxcc - teletext closed captioning decoder
(c) Petr Kutalek <petr.kutalek@forers.com>, 2011-2012; Licensed under the GPL.
Please consider making a Paypal donation to support our free GNU/GPL software: http://fore.rs/donate/telxcc
Built on Feb 26 2012

Usage: telxcc [-h] | [-p PAGE] [-t TID] [-o OFFSET] [-n] [-1] [-c] [-v]
  STDIN       transport stream
  STDOUT      subtitles in SubRip SRT file format (UTF-8 encoded)
  -h          this help text
  -p PAGE     teletext page number carrying closed captioning (default: 888)
  -t TID      transport stream PID of teletext data sub-stream (default: auto)
  -o OFFSET   subtitles offset in seconds (default: 0.0)
  -n          do not print UTF-8 BOM characters at the beginning of output
  -1          produce at least one (dummy) frame
  -c          output colour information in font HTML tags
              (colours are supported by MPC, MPC HC, VLC, KMPlayer, VSFilter, ffdshow etc.)
  -v          be verbose (default: verboseness turned off, without being quiet)

Usage example

$ ./telxcc -p 777 < 2012-02-15_1900_WWW_NRK.ts > dagsrevyen.srt ↵
telxcc - teletext closed captioning decoder
(c) Petr Kutalek <petr.kutalek@forers.com>, 2011-2012; Licensed under the GPL.
Please consider making a Paypal donation to support our free GNU/GPL software: http://fore.rs/donate/telxcc
Built on Feb 26 2012

INFO: No teletext PID specified, first received suitable stream PID is 576 (0x240), not guaranteed
INFO: Programme Identification Data = "NRK TV              "
INFO: Universal Time Co-ordinated = Wed Feb 15 19:14:04 2012
INFO: Done (17745 teletext packets processed, 46 SRT frames written)

$ _

Other notes

There are some notes on my DVB-T capture and processing chains in notes folder.

• Task are parallelized (even over multiple files processing -- eg. encoding audio from file 1.ts and video from file 2.ts)
• MP4 output files are fully iPhone/iPad (and also Mac OS X) compatible including CC(!) and HTTP streaming (iOS >= 5 and (iPhone >= 4 or iPad 2))

Pricing

telxcc is free GNU/GPL-licensed software. However if you use it, please consider making a Paypal donation.

Support

Any bug reports are very welcome. Unfortunately I am unable to provide you with free support.