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Tvheadend

TV streaming server and recorder for Linux

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Tvheadend is a TV streaming server and recorder for Linux. It supports ATSC, DVB-C/C2, DVB-S/S2, DVB-T/T2, ISDB-T, IPTV, SAT>IP and HDHomeRun input sources, and outputs HTTP (VLC, MPlayer), HTSP (Kodi, Movian) and SAT>IP streams. It can ingest multiple Electronic Program Guide (EPG) formats including over-the-air (OTA) broadcast data for DVB and ATSC, and OpenTV extensions like XMLTV and PyXML. The project started in 2006 as a personal hobby of Andreas Smas, moved to an open-source GPLv3 license, and switched to community ownership and governance in 2012. The current project team is small but committed to continuing to release software that helps people get the best from broadcast media.

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