SATLINE.TV Documentation

SAT>IP & DVB Technical Documentation

Practical documentation for getting satellite signal into an IP workflow — in-depth engineering references, one-screen quick guides, comparison articles and browser-based tools, written by the SATLINE.TV team and verified against the DVB, ETSI and ISO/IEC standards.

Two depths Every technical topic in two forms: a complete engineering reference and a one-screen quick summary.
Guides & whitepapers Answer-first comparison articles and formal whitepapers for evaluating and procuring infrastructure.
Interactive tools A transport-stream packet analyzer, a DVB bitrate calculator and a searchable glossary — all in your browser.

Where to start

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Technical Documentation

Newest 2026-08-05

Engineering references on MPEG transport streams, PSI/SI signalling, DVB-S2 and S2X modulation, conditional access, T2-MI and SAT>IP — each in a full in-depth version and a one-screen quick reference.

  • In-depth references and quick summaries
  • Packet analyzer, bitrate calculator and glossary
  • Verified against ETSI and ISO/IEC standards
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Guides & Whitepapers

Newest 2026-08-04

Answer-first comparison articles and formal whitepapers on satellite ingest tiers, dish farms versus teleports, T2-MI processing and IPTV infrastructure — for evaluating options and briefing stakeholders.

  • Comparison guides, answer-first
  • Whitepapers for stakeholder review
  • Decision frameworks and scorecards
Browse guides & whitepapers →
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Interactive Tools

Newest 2026-08-05

Put the references to work on your own stream — decode a transport-stream packet, size a DVB carrier, or look up any term. Everything runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

  • TS packet analyzer — decode any header
  • DVB bitrate & link calculator
  • Searchable 95-term glossary
Open the tools →
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Music & Videos

Released 2026-08-29

Enter the “See the Goal First” collection — original SATLINE.TV songs and animated videos about flexible engineering and ultra-low-latency delivery.

  • Seven animated music videos
  • Seven original songs
  • MP3 downloads for every track
Watch videos & download music →

Latest & featured

MPEG Transport Stream Explained

Updated 2026-08-05

The container DVB rides in, field by field: why packets are 188 bytes, the 4-byte header, PIDs, PSI/SI tables, PCR timing, T2-MI, and the continuity-counter blind spot. DVB Standards & C/N Reference

Updated 2026-08-05

Every DVB-S2 and S2X MODCOD with its spectral efficiency and required Es/N0, read straight from the ETSI tables — plus what margin a real link actually needs. Conditional Access & DVB SimulCrypt

Updated 2026-08-05

Scrambling versus key distribution, ECM against EMM, the SimulCrypt head-end and its wire protocol, BISS, and where descrambling physically happens. The TSDuck Cookbook

Updated 2026-08-05

Verified transport-stream recipes — analyse a live SAT>IP feed, read and edit signalling, and prove the 16-packet continuity blind spot — every command run against TSDuck 3.44. Interactive tools & glossary

Updated 2026-08-05

A transport-stream packet analyzer, a DVB bitrate calculator across all 75 published MODCODs, and a searchable 95-term glossary — all running in your browser. Which Satellite Ingest Tier You Need

Updated 2026-08-04

Locked vs unlocked vs dedicated: how each is sold, why a pre-locked SAT>IP tuner streams instantly, and the three jobs only physical hardware can do. Ingest Tier Whitepaper

Updated 2026-08-04

The procurement edition: a weighted decision scorecard, cost behaviour across the three tiers, and the two constraints that settle the choice. IPTV Infrastructure Explained

Updated 2026-05-20

Streamers, middleware, transcoders, SAT>IP, CDNs and SRT — what every layer of an IPTV delivery chain does and how they connect, in plain English. T2-MI: Why Direct Processing Matters

Updated 2026-04-22

Ten reasons native T2-MI decapsulation beats hardware reduction — PLP-aware extraction and lower-overhead broadcast workflows.

About this documentation

Written and maintained by Gleb Sazanov, CTO and Project Leader at SATLINE, who has worked in satellite communications since 2011 and started the satline project in 2019.

SATLINE.TV began as a project inside Hostline, UAB — a Lithuanian hosting and data-centre company founded in 2011 — and grew into a separate company, Satline, UAB, incorporated in Vilnius in 2026. The service and its technical lead carried across unchanged; only the legal entity is new.

Published by Satline, UAB, Vilnius, Lithuania. Company code 307648796.