Tvheadend: Self-Hosted IPTV Server | Hacker News Reader

Tvheadend: Self-Hosted IPTV Server

tvheadend.org

40 pointshyperific12 comments

I wish projects would have a short "what this is" paragraph. Right now, the front page is a forum, "docs" says the documentation is maintained by users and links to the changelog, and there's nothing anywhere that tells me what this project does.

Agreed the website is poorly organized, but if you click About, you get that paragraph:

https://tvheadend.org/p/about

> Tvheadend is the leading TV streaming server and recorder for Linux supporting ATSC, DVB-C/C2, DVB-S/S2, DVB-T/T2, ISDB-T, IPTV, SAT>IP and HDHomeRun input sources. Tvheadend outputs HTTP (VLC, MPlayer), HTSP (Kodi, Movian) and SAT>IP streams, and can ingest multiple Electronic Program Guide (EPG) formats including over-the-air (OTA) broadcast data for DVB and ATSC, and OpenTV extensions like XMLTV and PyXML.

So it's a DVR project in the vein of TiVo and Windows Media Center.

Ah nice, thank you.

Streaming, not DVR. Think TV to IP

It does include a fairly full-featured DVR system - I used to use it with Kodi to record shows off DVB-T.

Oh, I must be misremembering. I also used to use it with XBMC/Kodi, but I recalled kodi itself being the dvr element. Or maybe I’m even conflating it with plex. It has been a minute :D

I use it since countless years. Works very reliable, supports all kind of complex configurations, best way of receiving OTA TV and radio.

Just the ext.js UI is a bit dated and buggy, but it works. And we still got TvhClient on mobile...

Also great integration into Kodi and Jellyfin. Or simply use custom hook scripts or its API.

What USB Tuners do people like? I have a Hauppauge WinTV-dualHD Dual Tuner - 955D and I have to restart server every 3 days because it deadlocks.

Do any alternatives to TvHeadEnd exist? I looked a bit and seems like it’s the best. So much customization it would be hard to reach it’s quality

This is a route that I was planning to take on Linux, so it is disappointing to hear that this was your experience. Is it possible that HDHomeRun as the backend to Tvheadend is the way to go?

It's been a few years since i last tried, but I was pretty satisfied with TBS PCI-e tuners [1]. Good linux support, stable, and you can get them with multiple tuners to stream/record many channels at once.

[1] www.tbsiptv.com

Anysee 30 something. It's USB but I have uptimes close to a year

I just pulled my old hdhomerun out of the drawer the other day. I was thinking if it would even work anymore.

tvheadend has been around for a long time, glad to see it.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com