Tvheadend

Well Filipe,, everything depends how your budget is, on doing Transcoding...

I have been on IPTV Business Over 2004 ,, All this year the experience I have been get the most difficult and expensive part is TRANSCODING , there are a lot company out there with Hardware cost is wayyy Up, I use FFMpeg with server lot of Core, was a PAIN then turn to Antik Transcoder where support 15Ch per Module , the cost was 6K per unit..now a new model is out support 24channels 8k, ok so I get it,..So ,..I get on my hand 1 Unit IncaNetwork 4400 which support up to 36 HD or 90 SD programs to MPEG-4 in just one rack unit of space ,, They send unit as test,. before that a Supervisor come over and see our Headend , he was just a litter Impressive what he see, he make few call after 48 hour a bran new 4400 arrive, everting was easy to install ,.but when it come the time of the "$$$DAMAGES$$$" was 70K, I say WHat the HELL your are Talking About like the singer girl "DANI SHAI" on Yutube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l0zj7K4u4o ,,, Yes just like that WHAT HELL..

Our 1st test expense was:

1 Server R710 32 Cores 128 ram on 2010 6,000K --Garabge I use as CDN now ..

2, 12 pice Antik Transcoder 72K from 2012 to 2016 so far still Working Support is 50% need to be in a WAR with Antik to get parts after 1 year they sell you the parts.

3. our Last stand where everting run 99.9 with Only 46K. Yes 46,000$ doing over 530 channels

2 Server ---------We transocde 220HD and 320 SD with this server
APEXX 5 8904RS /
DUAL 12-core Intel® Xeon® 2.1GHz processors (24 total cores)
32GB DDR4-2133 memory
4 x NVIDIA® Quadro™ M6000 graphics
240GB SATA 6GB/s SSD
Linux OS -Ubuntu 16.4 64 Bit Server
Nvida Maxwell Drivers CUDA,FFmpeg / libav ,Nginx
TransCode V1 , HLS,RTMP,RTSP,UDP,RTP, IP2IP,Lineal Transcoding,HEVC,.265,264,MPEG4
GUI Interface, Multiscreen Monitoring Live System
2 HDMI Input for 2 LED Screen Multiscreen

So far 2 months with this new Hardware online , no reboot , no hang , full commercial.
we develop our Software building Linux..
Tested with TVHeadend Works , ...

Note Any card under this list work perfectly notice that depend of the model less transcoding our more.
The following graphics cards support NVENC:
 
NVIDIA Quadro K4000 and above - Desktop Workstation  
NVIDIA Quadro K2000M and above - Mobile Workstation  
NVIDIA Tesla K10 and above - High Performance Computing  
NVIDIA GRID - Virtual Desktops and Applications

Actually you can use "Gaming" nVidia card with patch with unlock 2 streams lock, if you need

But better to invest to Mustang-200 LINK

What about cheaper quadro cards: Quadro P400, P600, P1000, or older HP nVIDIA Quadro 4000 Black Edition (not K) - can be bought older for 130€... ?
I want to transcode about 4 HD streams. Tried lekma fork with vaapi support on J3710, but it was not reliable, running older tvheadend, and when i was transcoding more 2-3 streams it crashed anyway, even when gpu was not used fully. So i can invest few euros, but not thousands:-)

@michal starinsky
QSV and external transcoder via pipe

norman staffd wrote:

Well Filipe,, everything depends how your budget is, on doing Transcoding...

I have been on IPTV Business Over 2004 ,, All this year the experience I have been get the most difficult and expensive part is TRANSCODING , there are a lot company out there with Hardware cost is wayyy Up, I use FFMpeg with server lot of Core, was a PAIN then turn to Antik Transcoder where support 15Ch per Module , the cost was 6K per unit..now a new model is out support 24channels 8k, ok so I get it,..So ,..I get on my hand 1 Unit IncaNetwork 4400 which support up to 36 HD or 90 SD programs to MPEG-4 in just one rack unit of space ,, They send unit as test,. before that a Supervisor come over and see our Headend , he was just a litter Impressive what he see, he make few call after 48 hour a bran new 4400 arrive, everting was easy to install ,.but when it come the time of the "$$$DAMAGES$$$" was 70K, I say WHat the HELL your are Talking About like the singer girl "DANI SHAI" on Yutube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l0zj7K4u4o ,,, Yes just like that WHAT HELL..

Our 1st test expense was:

1 Server R710 32 Cores 128 ram on 2010 6,000K --Garabge I use as CDN now ..

2, 12 pice Antik Transcoder 72K from 2012 to 2016 so far still Working Support is 50% need to be in a WAR with Antik to get parts after 1 year they sell you the parts.

3. our Last stand where everting run 99.9 with Only 46K. Yes 46,000$ doing over 530 channels

2 Server ---------We transocde 220HD and 320 SD with this server
APEXX 5 8904RS /
DUAL 12-core Intel® Xeon® 2.1GHz processors (24 total cores)
32GB DDR4-2133 memory
4 x NVIDIA® Quadro™ M6000 graphics
240GB SATA 6GB/s SSD
Linux OS -Ubuntu 16.4 64 Bit Server
Nvida Maxwell Drivers CUDA,FFmpeg / libav ,Nginx
TransCode V1 , HLS,RTMP,RTSP,UDP,RTP, IP2IP,Lineal Transcoding,HEVC,.265,264,MPEG4
GUI Interface, Multiscreen Monitoring Live System
2 HDMI Input for 2 LED Screen Multiscreen

So far 2 months with this new Hardware online , no reboot , no hang , full commercial.
we develop our Software building Linux..
Tested with TVHeadend Works , ...

Note Any card under this list work perfectly notice that depend of the model less transcoding our more.
The following graphics cards support NVENC:
 
NVIDIA Quadro K4000 and above - Desktop Workstation  
NVIDIA Quadro K2000M and above - Mobile Workstation  
NVIDIA Tesla K10 and above - High Performance Computing  
NVIDIA GRID - Virtual Desktops and Applications

Hi Norman

Do you have more info on how you set this up ?
Was looking at 4 x tesla K10 but not sure of how many channels possible

thanks

Sorry to write after so long in this thread

norman staffd, Can you please answer the following:

a) What is the version of the drivers you are using?
b) Are the M6000 cards 12 GB or 24 GB?

Thanks