Tvheadend

h1. List of features

*SDTV and HDTV support*

H264, MPEG2 and partial H265 video support. AC-3, AAC(-HE) and MP2 audio support. DVB subtitles support.

*Input sources*

* *DVB-T, DVB-C, DVB-S, DVB-S2 and ATSC.*

Multiple adapters are supported. Each adapter can receive all services available on the currently tuned mux simultaneously.

* *Multicast IPTV.*

Both raw transport streams in UDP and transport stream in RTP in UDP is supported. The presence of RTP is auto detected.

* *SAT>IP*

Various satellite to IP boxes are supported (DD Octopus NET, etc).

*Output targets*

* HTSP (Home TV Streaming Protocol), supported by "Showtime Mediacenter":https://www.lonelycoder.com/showtime, "XBMC":http://xbmc.org/ and the "VLC HTSP Plug-in":https://github.com/BtbN/vlc-htsp-plugin.

* The built-in Digital Video Recorder

* HTTP Streaming.

*Modern web user interface*

Entire application loaded into browser. No page refreshes or slow updates. Based on "ExtJS":http://www.extjs.com.

*Easy to administrate and configure*

All set-up and configuration is done from the built-in web user interface. All settings are stored in human readable text files.

*Fully integrated with HTS Showtime Media player*

All channel data and grouping, EPG and TV streaming is conducted over a single TCP connection.

*Digital Video Recorder*

Built-in video recorder stores recorded programmes as "Matroska":http://www.matroska.org (.mkv), Transport Stream (.ts) files or "same as source". Multiple simultaneous recordings are supported. All original streams (multiple audio tracks, etc) are recorded.

*Electronic Program Guide*

Imports data from DVB and "XMLTV":http://www.xmltv.org. Searchable from the web user interface. Results can be scheduled for recording with a single click.

*Timeshift*

Built-in timeshift allows the user to pause, rewind or fast-forward the current service (Client dependant).

*Automatic recordings*

Create rule-sets manually or based on EPG queries that will record all future programmes matching the query. Great for recording your favourite TV-show(s).

*Easy DVB set-up*

Tvheadend includes list of all major DVB-T, DVB-C and DVB-S networks around the globe, just pick your location from the pre-defined muxes list. You can also add a mux manually and let network discovery find additional muxes automatically if you prefer.

*Stream filter*

Create rule-sets that allow filtering and re-ordering of elementary streams.

*Multi-user support*

Grant access to various system features based on username / password and/or IP address.

*Software based CSA descrambling*

Requires a card server (code word client and capmt protocol is supported).

*Internationalization*

All text is encoded in UTF-8 to provide full international support. All major character encodings in DVB is supported.

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