Great news from Avalpa, today. We are going to present our open source philosophy at next DvbWorld 2010 in Lisbon.

DvbWorld is the official gathering of the "Dvb Power" (TM). As their tagline says, it is "the essential annual conference and exhibition dedicated to DVB standards and their implementation"

The IDTVOS project is finally public. IDTVOS is the free middleware for digital television set top box developed by Inteco.

IDTVOS is based upon Jet and is focused toward easy accessibility (useful for everybody and impaired people too!). The main feature inside is the integration with Flite, a "text to speech" engine that help a lot browsing the decoder menu, reading televideo and all the textual content already present in interactive applications.

Avalpa Digital Engineering has been selected in the final Italian pool for the 2009 Global Dell Small Business Excellence Award competition.

We like to believe that we have been chosen not only for our technological all around solutions for interactive digital television like OpenCaster and Jet the Java based middleware but also for the innovative business model based on open source and free software development.

Anyway our main pride would be to inspire more people to become innovative entrepreneurs expecially in this economic crisis and challenging times. In Italy, Small and Medium Enterprises are the backbone of our economy.

More info on the official web site. The Italian finalist is ACR.Congrats!

OpenCaster is a free and open source MPEG2 transport stream data generator and packet manipulator.

Among new 2.2 features:

• AC3 encoding and multiplexing support for 5.1 sound
• enhanced DVB-SSU
• old but ever green teletext over DVB

New 2.0 features:

• seamless playout of off-line MPEG2 encoded videos
• IP multicast driver for IPTV services
• successfully integrated with products by Cisco/Scientific Atlanta, Ericsson/Tandberg, Eurotek, Harmonic/Scopus, Mitan, MainConcept, Screen Service
• tested with Rohde & Schwarz DVM100L, 

• create PSI/SI tables
• play out seamlessly every kind of file (data, audio & video when properly encoded)
• manipulate real time TS stored on hard disk.
• transform filesystems in DSMCC carousels (MHP, MHEG, OTA)
• generate many other data streams carried on a TS; almost everything but audio and video, that's because OpenCaster IS NOT AN MPEG AUDIO/VIDEO ENCODER.
• multiplex constant bit rate transport (CBR) streams
• restamp PCR, PTS & DTS 
• output to DVB-ASI with PCI and USB hardware boards (today in house Computer Modules, Dektec, Bluetop).
• output to DVB-S, DVB-T and DVB-C with Dektec DTA110T hardware boards.

Audio and video streams are expected as input files in a transport stream TS format or as elementary streams ES and then can be transformed to TS format at any bitrate with local PCR stamping.