TSDuck: Open-source toolkit for MPEG-TS analysis and manipulation

I miss the quaint DVB SI (ETSI EN 300 468) Content Descriptors with values that lumped together arbitrary categories (someone's subjective opinion) like: "serious music/classical music", or "popular culture/traditional arts". I thought they seemed strange in the context of a formal standard.

Way back in a former life working with MPEG2-TS streams, the go to tool was MP2TSME from Manzanita. My understanding is that it is no longer available, but that’s left me wondering what do people use now. There’s always chatter about abandonware being released as OSS, but this is the one app that I know and felt would have been a perfect candidate for that route.

In my copious free time, I've wanted to go looking at FTA satellites to see if there's data in the TS that I can't ascribe to any known programming. This seems like an ideal tool to start with.

Good old MPEG-TS (together with its cousing MPEG-PS)

If anyone is not familiar with it, the rabbit hole goes deep

This is amazing. I have absolutely no use for it personally, but it's still seriously impressive what all it can do. Whoever works on this is obviously deeply involved with television broadcasting professionally... just having access to all the expensive standards necessary to implement these things is a feat all by itself.