Tvheadend

h1. List of features

*SDTV, HDTV and UHDTV support*

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

*Input sources*

* *DVB-T/T2, DVB-C, DVB-S, DVB-S2 and ATSC.*

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

* *SAT>IP*

Can act as Client and Server of all dvb formats

* *Multicasted IPTV.*

Both raw transport streams in UDP and transport stream in RTP in UDP is supported. The precense of RTP is autodetected.

* -*Analog TV*-

-Using the Video4Linux2 API. Currently, only PAL is supported.-

Analog TV is removed after version 2.xx

*Output targets*

* HTSP (Home TV Streaming Protocol), supported by "Showtime Mediacenter":https://www.lonelycoder.com/showtime and "XBMC":http://xbmc.org/ now KODI:https://kodi.tv.

* The Built-in Digital Video Recorder

* RTSP server

*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 setup and configuration is done from the built in web user interface. Even so, all settings are stored in human readable text files.

*Fully integrated with HTS Showtime Media player*

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

*Digital Video Recorder*

Built in video recorder stores recorded programs as "Matroska":http://www.matroska.org (.mkv) files. 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.

*Automatic recordings*

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

*Easy DVB setup*

Tvheadend includes list of all major DVB-T, DVB-C, DVB-S and ATSC networks around the globe. Just pick your location from a list. Next, it can scan all services and only map those which can be correctly decoded. Avoids having lots of unusable channels in your Media player.

*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 (newcamd 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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