Features of Tvheadend

SDTV and HDTV support

• H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC) and MPEG2 video supported.
• AC-3, AAC and MP2 audio supported.
• DVB subtitles supported.

Input Sources

• Satellite signals via DVB-S and DVB-S2
• Terrestrial/Over-the-Air signals via DVB-T, DVB-T2 and ATSC
• Cable signals via DVB-C
• LAN/IPTV signals such as IPTV, SAT>IP, HDHomeRun
• A general-purpose MPEG-TS pipe:// for analogue and non-broadcast sources
• Support for multiple adapters of any mix, with each adapter able to receive simultaneously all programmes on the current mux.
• Powerful many-to-many channel:service:tuner mapping that allows you to select channels irrespective of the underlying carrier (for channels that broadcast on multiple sources).

Output Targets

• Local or remote disk, via the built-in digital video recorder.
• HTSP (Home TV Streaming Protocol).
• HTTP streaming.

Transcoding Support

• Subject to your system’s capabilities, support for on-the-fly transcoding for both live and recorded streams
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Digital Video Recorder

• Built in video recorder stores recorded programs as Transport Stream (.ts) or Matroska (.mkv) files.
• Multiple simultaneous recordings are supported.
• All original streams (multiple audio tracks, etc) are recorded.
• Streams can be selected and filtered positively or negatively as required.
• Create rule sets manually or based on EPG queries.
• Multiple DVR profiles that support different target directories, post-processing options, filtering options, etc.

Electronic Program Guide

• Rich EPG support, with data from DVB/OTA, XMLTV (scheduled and socket).
• Searchable and filterable from the web user interface.
• Results can be scheduled for recording with a single click.

Rich Browser-Driven Interface

• The entire application is loaded into the browser.
• Based on extJS, all pages are dynamic and self-refreshing.
• All sorting/filtering is then done in C by the main application for speed.

Easy to Configure and Administer

• All setup and configuration is done from the built in web user interface.
• All settings are stored in human-readable text files.
• Initial setup can be done by choosing one of the pre-defined linuxtv networks or manually configured.
• Idle scanning for automatic detection of muxes and services.
• Support for broadcaster (primarily DVB-S) bouquets for easy channel mapping.

Multi-User Support

• Access to system features (streaming, administration, configurations) can be configured based on username/password and/or IP address.

Software-Based CSA Descrambling

• Requires a card server (newcamd and capmt protocol is supported).

Fully-Integrated with Mainstream Media Players

• Movian and Kodi are the main targets/
• All channel data, channel groups/tages, EPG and TV streaming is carried over a single TCP connection.

Mobile/Remote Client Support

• As well as the web interface, which is accessible through VPN if required, third-party clients are available for both Android and iOS (other clients may also be available).

Internationalisation

• All text is encoded in UTF-8 to provide full international support.
• All major character encodings in DVB are supported (e.g. for localised EPG character sets).