Utilizing open source in terrestrial digital TV broadcasting

Indonesian terrestrial TV broadcasting has just started its migration to digital standard. Digitalization offers more roles for software development in various functional blocks
of digital TV system. Migration from the current analog system to fully digital in terrestrial TV distribution is inevitable. Utilization of open-source softwares in assessing some aspects of terrestrial digital TV system. Technical specification and measurement standard operating procedure for basic services using DVB-T standard, and set-up a softwarebased platform based on open source softwares for testing a DVB-T set-top-box.The result is software-based test platform based on open-source softwares which can be used to test standard-compliance of a DVB-T STB prototype using the proposed measurement SOP. This work is still at the early stage, but the nature of digital TV shows a lot of potential usage of open-source software development. By focusing more on software issues related to digital TV, further exploration can be conducted more extensively in the future; e.g., developing applications with interactive features for e-commerce, e-learning, etc (EMS2022)