Tvheadend: Self-Hosted IPTV Server
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2 days ago
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Sean-Der
24 minutes ago
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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

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wallst07
1 hour ago
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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.

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stavros
1 hour ago
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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.
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josh3736
1 hour ago
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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.

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stavros
1 hour ago
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Ah nice, thank you.
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