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Is it possible to stream tvheadend over the Internet?

Added by Mike Freeman almost 13 years ago

Just out of curiosity, would it be possible to connect the tvheadend stream to a visible port on the Internet? Basically, I'd like to know if it would be possible to stream, watch, and record my TV channels from my laptop when I'm away from home. This way, when we go on vacation and we'd like to watch our local news or record a show that will only be on our local channels, I can just connect to an Internet/broadband connection and go to the tvheadend web interface on my personal IP/port. Is this possible? Thanks!


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RE: Is it possible to stream tvheadend over the Internet? - Added by Hein Rigolo almost 13 years ago

Yes you can expose the web frontend and/or the HTSP ports on an externally mapped port on your router. But .. tvheadend is not doing any transcoding, so you need enough bandwidth to get the full stream. For HD channels this can be 12 Mbit/s ....

Hein

RE: Is it possible to stream tvheadend over the Internet? - Added by Mike Freeman almost 13 years ago

I see. The download speed shouldn't be a problem - the places we go generally have nice, speedy internet (like 20Mb/s). It's the upload speed from home that would be the problem. My ISP caps our upload rate to 6Mb/s, I think. As most of the channels we watch produce an HD signal, that's probably a bit slow. Any way to take the stream from tvheadend, feed it through a transcoder of some kind on the same computer, and send that out on the 'net?

RE: Is it possible to stream tvheadend over the Internet? - Added by Hein Rigolo almost 13 years ago

There is an experimental transcoding version of tvheadend available on github.

Or loop the streams through ffmpeg to transcode and hope that your cpu can keepup.

Or record it and then download the recorded mkv ... Probably no need for realtime watching when you are on a holiday.

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