Tvheadend

h1. Custom MPEG-TS Input

h2. Requirement

The TVHeadend 3.9.2100 and up for the pipe:// URL support. Note that TVHeadend expects the input in the raw MPEG-TS format with correct PAT/PMT tables.

h2. IPTV URLs

Note: Always try the command without pipe:// prefix on standard command line, if it works with a stdout redirection to a file!!

.h3 Transcode to H264 video

<pre>
pipe:///usr/bin/ffmpeg -loglevel fatal -nostdin -re -i INPUTLINK -vcodec libx264 copy -acodec copy -mbd rd -copyinkf -flags +ilme+ildct -fflags +genpts \
-metadata service_provider=STRING -metadata service_name=STRING -f mpegts -tune zerolatency pipe:1
</pre>

.h3 Direct copy

<pre>
pipe:///usr/bin/ffmpeg -loglevel fatal -nostdin -i INPUTLINK -vcodec copy -acodec copy -metadata service_provider=STRING
-metadata service_name=STRING -f mpegts -tune zerolatency pipe:1
</pre>

h2. Other solutions (HTTP proxy)

[[https://github.com/Jalle19/node-ffmpeg-mpegts-proxy | A simple ffmpeg HTTP proxy using nodejs]|