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Getting Started

STANAG 4609 mandates MPEG transport streams for motion-imagery distribution. A transport stream contains packetized video, optional audio, and metadata multiplexed together in one stream.

KLV Streamer is built to rebroadcast those files over IP networks at real time, slower than real time, or faster than real time, while still giving you a preview of the network output and the embedded KLV metadata.

Typical Session​

  1. Add one or more STANAG or TS files to a playlist.
  2. Configure the network target.
  3. Decide whether preview should be enabled.
  4. Select the KLV PID to display if the stream carries more than one.
  5. Start playback and monitor bitrate, metadata, and PCR behavior.

What The Tool Is Good At​

  • Replaying archived STANAG streams into a lab or test network.
  • Exercising multicast or unicast ingestion pipelines.
  • Reviewing how multiple KLV PIDs behave during preview.
  • Verifying bitrate consistency before downstream processing.
  • Identifying PCR discontinuities that can affect decoder timing or bitrate calculations.

Streaming Model​

KLV Streamer sends playlist items over UDP using the output configuration you provide. Preview operates either by generating an additional local unicast stream or by joining the multicast group that is already being used for the output stream.