tvheadend

Tvheadend

Tvheadend is the leading TV streaming server and Digital Video Recorder for Linux.

It supports the following inputs:

• ATSC
• DVB-C(2)
• DVB-S(2)
• DVB-T(2)
• HDHomeRun
• IPTV
  • UDP
  • HTTP
• SAT>IP
• Unix Pipe

It supports the following outputs:

• HTSP (native protocol)
• HTTP
• SAT>IP

Documentation

Tvheadend documentation can be found here: https://docs.tvheadend.org.

Support

Please triage issues and ask questions in the forum: https://tvheadend.org or use the #hts IRC channel on Libera.Chat to speak with project staff: https://web.libera.chat/#hts.

Please report triaged bugs via GitHub Issues.

Building for Linux

First you need to configure:

$ ./configure

If build dependencies are missing the configure script will complain or attempt to disable optional features.

To build the binary:

$ make

After compiling the Tvheadend binary is in the build.linux directory.

To run the Tvheadend binary:

$ ./build.linux/tvheadend

Settings are stored in $HOME/.hts/tvheadend.

To install the newly compiled Tvheadend binary and associated files onto your system:

$ sudo make install

Running on Linux

Instructions for popular distributions are in our public documentation.

Running in Docker

Running in Docker can be as simple as:

$ docker run --rm ghcr.io/tvheadend/tvheadend:latest

See README.Docker.md for more details.