Great video, I just have one thing to note. "apt-get update" will only update the package lists, you need to run "apt-get upgrade" afterwards to download and install new versions of packages.
Great Video matey, got my spare RPi2 up and running streaming dvb-t very quickly with an old DVB-T stick I had laying about. My area of Australia wasn't listed so I used the auto-Australia to scan the whole range until it spat the local frequencies out. From there it wasn't rocket science to create some config files with your guide. The next step was to use VLC to also save the stream out to my PC as an .mp4 was very happy this was easy as well. Thanks for taking the time to post, now I want another 4 Raspberry Pi's and tuners :D
That's the way! I have a new project in mind to redo all of this. Given the surprising popularity of this system, I might present it a bit better. Do you have proper switching for this, or are you just getting by as is?
Decent networking. RPi2 +DVB-T are out in my shed where the NBN and TV Antenna terminates, feeds into the local switch and travels into the house with an 802.11q trunk to the switch here. 0 Problems multicasting and streaming a 1080p mkv & browsing over the trunk whilst watching TV streaming. Have just worked out how to make use of the rtp stream in Kodi, so its happy days and I'm now looking at testing/trying an antenna pigtail to see if i can use a cheapy SDR as another tuner :)
Is it just because you have lots of bandwidth on your LAN, or you have IGMP snooping set up? (ie, is it still flooding out all of your ports like a broadcast?) There is of course nothing worth watching on TV these days. I just have this for the technology aspect of it :)
Yeah my home network isn't that busy so flooding it with the multicast isn't really noticeable. I had a couple of RPi2's running spare so I turned one into an ADB-S receiver feeding data to FR24 and another into the DVB-T receiver from your guide. Also more for the tech fun of it, we don't even have an antenna cable plugged into TV's here and all content is delivered via IP. Now I'm going to acquire some more for another couple of little projects although today's rainy day project might be to just task the 1 RPi2 into a DVB-T and ADS-B receiver/blaster/uploader. Edit: 15 mins later, single RPi2 running both :D.. Got a spare again :D
Be careful with multicast over Wi-Fi.. it will travel at a slow rate on home type systems. As soon as I have all the parts for my next project, I'll upload it.
I get what this does, but why do it? I mean, are TVs typically able to tune into a multicast stream so you can omit your traditional antenna installation? And still use your TVs normal channel list with a normal CH+/- operation like a normal person? :) Or is the point of this to watch with a PCs instead, but without having to plug the dongle and antenna cable into the PC? Or would you use some media center hardware running some front-end software that can manage these streams along with your other content and sources? So you need an extra device at each TV? I'm interested in doing this to omit the antenna installation in our house build (that infrastructure should have been made obsolete a decade ago), but if this doesn't just work with TVs in general then I struggle to see the point, at least in my use case, but maybe I'm missing a greater point?
This most probably isn't for you for a home use case. You already gave a couple of examples where it would be used. Think about large corporate networks, hotels, ISPs, basically anyone that is distributing on a large scale. I'll be doing some more videos on this in greater detail in the very near future so be sure to check them out.
In Minute 8:35 of this Video you are writing the numbers/adress "225.0.0.41:20000 1" where did You get Those numbers? What numbers are these? Where can i find them? Which numbers do i have to write? Which UDP or TCP port do i have to open or forward on a router? Please help me with this, please.
@@ChicklePega2008Should work fine within the organization local scope block, so 239.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255 and ports should be any from 1-65535. Example addresses that I use are: 239.0.0.1:1000 -> Channel 1 239.0.0.2:1001 -> Channel 2 and so on.
Hi, I just saw your other video where you try 1 then 2 ... then 4 tuner : I should have started with it :) ! But now I don't understand at all why you talked about bandwidth ?! it's a CPU matter (only) ?
I see two purposes for these little boards. One is education/research for little expense. Two is drones. I imagine for just about any other use a typical desktop, workstation or server setup would give you much better performance for the cost. Unless the workload is very tiny.
not_found For space and power consumption I'd go for a NUC or intel compute stick. That's only if I need a thin client or media playback device without storage. I just don't see it having satisfying performance for regular desktop use, even if well tuned for the purpose.
OptimisticPessimist I'm not a supporter of the PI, if I need a linux machine I just get a VPS with datacenter speeds, 24/7 availability and no power cost. Just a bit more expensive in the long run, but you cannot host demanding stuff on a pi. There is also the plus of the support service so if it breaks I can shout to someone and they will fix it
Let me enlighten you... -Let's say you're a network engineer, and you often have to test networks that carry multicast video... you need a test source. -Maybe you are part of a huge enterprise network that wants to offer TV to thousands of users within your buildings. You wouldn't want to run RF cables for all of that and have everyone use a tuner. -Maybe you have an interest in digital TV and are curious what bandwidth each use for their data stream given the compression they are using. -Maybe some people find it fun and enjoyable to do a project like this, put it together, get through the hair pulling parts when you're trying to figure it out, and then have a finished product that works beautifully. ....ever thought that not everything on the Internet has YOU in mind? ;)
Cheers for that except the last line. There is another use; A mate of mine is a network systems designer for blue chip companies. In one office he overheard the HR people talking about the upcoming loss of lots of staff, as in, people calling in sick because of the World Cup football! So he said to them that the cost of adding digital TV to the network so people could watch in the office was less than the cost of lost productivity. They where stunned and went for it. Absenteeism dropped to 0% while morale went up a lot.
How is the device called which you use for splitting the different frequencies (last clip with the multiple raspberries)? Or is this bound to your satellite antenna/cable connection.
I can see this having the potential to let you digitally capture over the air broadcasts and perhaps properly configured, logging in from anywhere in the world and watching local TV.
Would it work to run with smaller numer of pies which would have 2+ tuners attached? In your setup 2 pies with 3 tuners each should be optimal I guess.
I just tried adding a second adapter. It worked, with each adapter outputting 5 TV stations. The network bandwidth jumped to 36Mb/s. I'll have to use a newer Pi to test 3 adapters. Given that the NIC is shared with the USB bus internally, it might hit a limit, but I'll try later.
yeah that's actually somewhat what I wanted to hear! Although I suspect that with your results of 100MB/s of data the storage computer would need at least a couple SSD buffers.
Depends what you're trying to do in the real world. Each SD channel is about 4Mb/s. Just do something with mplayer to grab it and save the file, and maybe a web interface to control it. Don't ask me for tips on doing that though!
It's only limited by bandwidth (or USB, and NIC). ABC here has about 6 services on one frequency (and therefore one tuner). I have 3 tuners on that Pi for a couple of other frequencies, which all together totals about 70Mb/s
Trying to stream DVB-C. My dvb adapter has both DVB-T (0) and DVB-C (1) on different frontends in /dev/dvb/adapter0 but only one dvr (dvr0). When i start dvblast i select frontend 1 which is the DVB-C one but later on in the startup dvblast tries to select dvr1 which does not exist. How can i use frontend1 with dvr0? There are no obvious flags to for selecting dvr.
Solved it on my own. using mumudvb instead of dvblast. I also created link(?) in /dev/dvb/adapter0 with ln -s dvr0 dvr1 and the demuxer in the same way.
I don't know if this is possible and would like a walk through if you do have the time. Instead of using a TV Tuner USB Stick into the Rasberry Pi, is it possible to run through with a Capture device USBstick and have the video feed on playout? I'm trying to use a Raspberry Pi receive the video feed from a Video Capture USB Stick to serve a multicast IP or a better means of playout. I'll appreciate a reply on this.
I'd say your best bet there would be to try VLC. I don't know how it would go though, as there would be some processing involved. The beauty of this multicast TV system is that there isn't much processing to be done, as it's simply passing the data stream that it receives onto the network as multicast.
I operate a private TV headend, are tunersticks and raspberry pi's stable enough for me to convert each of my open qam tv channels to multicast to different company locations? I'm thinking like hauppauge dual tuner stick and a capable raspberry pi to convert 2 channels each. Your thoughts? Thx.
I take it that each tuner connected to a pi can only be tuned to one station/frequency hence why at the end you mention needing one for each station/frequency and its channels. is there any cards that can be tuned to all stations/frequencies or is that just a limitation of using a usb dv tuner on a pi in this application? ps. kudo's on the video, nice little project to test out when I get some free time and a pi.
These particular (and most) devices can only tune one frequency. Also, the bandwidth of all the tv services on one frequency (at 7MHz RF bandwidth) is about 23Mb/s. All 6 of the Raspberry Pi added together is more than the 100Mb/s NIC on the device. Having one card/frequency per Raspberry Pi is a comfortable workload for it.
Now I've got to ask, what "switching" would you recommend for this or are you getting at the capacity and quality of the switch? I'm looking at this for when we move house so we can watch FTA on mobile devices etc around the house over WiFi if it's practical. Can we get away with one tuner/pi per network or do we need one per PID if multiple people could be dragging multiple programs from the same transmitter? What minimum Pi would you recommend?
You'll need a switch that can do IGMP, but if you're planning on using it over Wi-Fi then you'll need a Wi-Fi system that can convert multicast to unicast, which is generally enterprise equipment. See my series on tv for an alternative idea using TCP.
Do you have so many tuners simply to avoid retuning to view different channels? Wouldn't it be far more network efficient to have a single channel streamed at a time and some way of requesting the channel to be changed? Or are you or some service actually consuming up to all those channels simultaneously?
6 tuners because there are 6 frequencies in use here, giving a total of 20something channels. This is the most network efficient IF the network is multicast capable. That's extremely important. This way, the server (Raspberry Pi) only ever has to serve the channel once, so it just feeds it to the switch. The switching infrastructure does the rest of the work, so could stream to many thousands. If you had them all trying to get an individual stream (unicast) from the Raspberry Pi, it would die after serving a few clients.
CWNE88 thanks for the info. I understand all the networking aspects, I just don't think I appreciate the fact you can't make these switch frequency on demand (when you want to watch a channel on another frequency). I'm comparing this to Freeview tuners in the UK though which might be apples to your oranges
If you find those *â* border symbols annoying, you can fix them in that saved PuTTY session. I'm not 100% certain. But, IIRC, I think it's... _Connection > Data > Terminal-type string_ Change it from *xterm* to *putty*. It just tells the SSH server which client you're using. I think old servers are normally compatible with XTerm. So PuTTY uses it as the default.
Great tutorial. I'm in Hobart. Followed your directions, am now scanning. All networks except SBS are detected. SBS is the one I want most. What do I have to do?
How about doing this when you have a lot of encrypted channels which needs a CI-module + card to decrypt? Any solution for that? I do have a Hauppauge DVB-T USB device and a Hauppauge USB CI device.
I believe so. I've never done satellite stuff though, but the program has the parameters for it. I'd be interested to see how it goes. What country are you in?
CWNE88 Howcome more than one TV channel be on same frequency? that would interfere with each other as per i know incase of more than one analog frequency but incase of digital is that possible to receive more than one channel on same frequency?
It's digital data. Lots of things can be put in a digital data stream. It's just a bunch of bits being used however. In this case, there are different video streams put into the overall data stream on that frequency.
CWNE88 So you mean to say that it's possible to broadcast more than one DVB channel on same frequency? I would also like to know is there a way to decrypt and watch encrypted DVB channels using the Realtek tuner if I have the smart card of my subscription.
Have followed all instructions, including CWNE88's about using auto-Australia. Have checked the route on the PI, seems OK. But on my Windows PC, VLC just shows a blank window when I try to connect. I'm using this PC to connect to the Pi by SSL and VNC so I know it sees the Pi fine. Can anyone help?
So you're trying to watch it on your windows machine, and it's on the same network at the Pi? Have you checked with Wireshark that the data is hitting the interface? Basically, is the LED on the Raspberry Pi flashing like hell? (it should be absolutely non-stop)
I'm just above newbie when it comes to networks. In my career I was an applications programmer, and I have good problem solving skills in that area. I have obtained Wireshark on the PC, and am attempting to learn how to use it. I ran dvblast on the Pi - and I stopped it. There's a row of LEDs, and I could not discern any appreciable difference between how they looked when dvblast was running, and when it was not.
Hi, I'm following your guild to setup a tv server but I am having trouble when scanning for channels. I keep receiving ":TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE (tuning failed)" and not sure what the problem is nor how to fix it. Perhaps you have encounter this problem before and could help with a solution?
Realtek RTL2832U reference design saying it is in warm state! Other than that it is giving me hell trying to set the thing up because firstly I am not sure if that is the correct on-board adapter? Secondly, I tried a BlazeTV turner I bought but the people whom made it only seem to know about Windows. No, I didn't know it was Windows only when I bought it off Amazon, the seller failed to mention it. Thirdly whenever, I try to make any source code for the adapters mentioned "Make" causes an error.
Well now... I got 2 PI's sitting on my desk at work for months. You just gave me a use for them. The kids will shit when I set this up, thanks for posting this. 👍
windows has a built in formatting tool. go to file explorer-> this pc and right click the drive you want to format. then click format and for a raspi, select FAT, for a windows drive, select NTFS. uncheck quick format and leave everything else default. it may take a few hours for large (250GB+) drives
SD cards should only be formatted with an SD format tool or the performance and possibly wear leveling can suffer. Windows 10 might do it okay but better to be safe than sorry.
erg0centric Yet ironically I have to boot into Windows to use the SD Formatter as I'm not sure of any way to do it from Linux. Of course its a none issue if you have a clean SD card as they will already be formatted correctly. Plus you can always try in a phone or camera, they are meant to conform correctly.
erg0centric You can't trust any really unless you know they are designed for SD. I should hope the Windows 10 one is, but no idea and better to be safe and use the proper formatter.
The PA networks firewall you have, well I'm assuming it's firewall-- what model is it? And are you using a business class internet that comes with a static ip?
Ten serwer dziala na mpeg2 albo h.264 bez problemo. Ja niestety nigdy nie bawilem sie z DVB-S bo tu w Australii nie sa popularny. Wiem ze w Polsce sa wszedzie, ale program z dvb-apps nazywa sie 'scan' jest na dvb-t albo dvb-s. Jezeli ty masz karte dvb-s, mozesz probowac. Jestem ciekawy jak dziala. W Warszawa para lat temu bylo test z DVB-T. Bylo na 2 ciestotliwosci. Nie wiem jak jest tam teraz, ale pewnie cos jest tam gdzie ty mieszkasz.
Please confirm: You are basically turning your Pi in a 'HDHomeRun?' I presume I would be able to connect that to a plex server as I would a HDHomeRun device?
I love the low power idear.. I uses MythTv back end on a Ubuntu box, mythtv can allow the same dab multi-cast. and use a load of poe pis running openelec as front end's. how much did it end up costing, if you don't mine me asking.
Great tutorial mate. Regarding multicast UDP traffic killing the network, are there some best practices (outside of using VLAN's etc) that one should follow? I'm doing a similar thing at the moment except I will be rebroadcasting CCTV streams to OSMC's pi's around the house. Thanks!
You NEED to have a switch that can do IGMP snooping and avoid flooding to all ports, pure and simple. If you're planning on doing multicast video over Wi-Fi, then if it's general home grade equipment, forget it.
Are there any set-top recievers (roku, etc..) that you can setup a way to conveniently watch these streams on a regular TV? ie: think of "wife acceptance factor" in the definition of "convenient" :-) Or, can these streams be recorded in the new DVR feature of PLEX?
I've just been starting to look into this to see if this was possible to cut out my cable provider and have been watching several of your videos. Could I ask you a few questions? 1. I'm assuming this would all work in the USA? 2. Are you using a regular antenna as your input feed? I was planning on using a small internal digital antenna. 3. How would I get the video streams from the server to a TV? I only have 1 TV that is a smart TV while others are not. Would I need something like another computer (or RPi) to act as a receiver to feed each TV? Anyway, thanks for the great information and hopefully it helps me.
Well currently I use tvheadend but I like the idea of multicasting a whole MUX rather than individual streams for each client. I need to get KODI to see the available streams and somehow have an epg.
Nice video... But I'm just looking to connect my computer as remote desktop to the pi, (I wanna show my desktop on the TV) using my computer or ipad on the TV remotely... Can't find anything on this
Thank you for this video. Can I ask - what do you use as an amp and what do you use for a splitter to all those Pi/Tuners you have? Does the 'blaster' pipe out the video 'on demand' or it always streaming on your network? How do you manage all those multicast groups - to make sure you don't reuse ones on different rPis? Is it just a case of having a unique port for each pi? Finally how much bandwidth do they take up when streaming? Is it - 'number Of Channels * 7 Mbps'? Thanks again, John.
Currently I have no RF amp, just a splitter from the antenna on the roof. The Raspberry pi is constantly outputing all channels. The switch takes care of forwarding to who wants them (look up multicast and IGMP). Each channel has its own multicast group. Bandwidth depends on the channel content. For SD channels it's about 2.5Mb/s.
Hi Great videos, do you have any ideas on how I can transcode UDP multicast on a Pi so I can present it in a webpage using a HTML video tag using .FLV perhaps?
Basically I'm running a digital display with the pi, but I'll probably end up serving it from an Ubuntu machine - It's strange as the Pi can happily receive UDP multicast via the native VLC program but as soon as I try and use the VLC plugin via a browser it hits 100% cpu, so I was hoping to transcode my multicast stream to live FLV feed so it could be presented via the naive tag on a browser.. have you had any experience with transcoding?
Hi! Can this manual help to create Pi3 Iptv server with tranfering to usuall Tv's via coax cable? I`m install on my pi3 osmc and add there acestream with iptv. I wan't to let pi3 like server and use Tv's like with my TV provider.
What small screen? The VLC media player? The SSH windows? He's using PuTTy on his Windows machine to SSH into the RPi and then launches VLC on his Windows machine to connect to the multicast group
I'm in the US, for now. I think I've got most of the bits I need worked out to broadcast to cable from the PI using ffmpeg, with a few glitches here and there. (Cheap decoders and mpeg2 are finicky things.) It's all for chuckles though, really. I can just imagine running the station off a Raspberry PI instead of a $20,000+ server. I wholeheartedly agree though, TV is just a pathetic thing, but the technology behind it is kind of interesting.
I like your style... but, the US doesn't use DVB-T and I think you're trying to do something different anyway. People ask why I have this thing... it's just great for testing as it's a high bandwidth multicast video data source. Very handy.
Hey mate, great tutorial - couple of questions: - What is the minimum hardware for this? Raspberry Pi 2 Model B or better? Or can it run on the Original Raspberry Pi? - As the Raspberry Pi 2 B has 4 USB ports, can it host multiple TV tuners on one device?
Good day. Are these channels you are streaming open or are they payed for/encrypted channels? I'd like to do something like this to not have to pay for TV like DSTV or any other payed subscription type service... Would this setup work?
Funny you should say that. I'm going to do it again step by step, and talk about all the components that go towards it. Right now I'm using a powered 5 port USB hub on a server rather than a Raspberry Pi, simply because it's more stable power-wise than the Pi.
where my tv is mounted, there's no antenna cable (old concrete house), can I use one Pi to stream thru my home's wifi? I dont want wires running on the side of the house.
From the description.... Tuner is AVerMedia AVerTV Volar Green There are 2 models, but the good one uses firmware dvb-usb-it9135-02.fw The other one uses dvb-usb-af9035-02.fw but that didn't seem to work as well and got hot. They look the same on the outside though. ID 07ca:3835 AVerMedia Technologies, Inc. AVerTV Volar Green HD (A835B)
Hi, can you do this with any other AVerTV model? I need a DVB-T2 tuner. Please advise. How many people can view 1 stream using one Raspberry PI? Thank you
Hi, I'm trying to apply the same system but in Ecuador, you could help me in how to generate the scan file for my country, since all the articles I'm looking for do not have anything detailed to apply it,
being that this is multicast every machine gets it without filtering enabled, say my switches don't support the filtering, and/or I only want 1 machine to receive all the streams and buffer/record them then transmit in RTSP unicast on demand.do I put a standard address in to transmit only in unicast (e.g. 192.168.1.100-200) or what if I put in the address of the server and change the port number?
hi greetings from chile , i have a big list on a iptv , but i cant send to internet out of my network , only can see in the intranet network , you can help me how that make this posible
im try to send whit ip encoder , on my pc recieve UDP://@239.0.0.1 and encoding and transmit to 127.0.0.1:8888/iptv_001 , this method works! , but my CPU up to 99 % whit 4 channels transmit :(
I have a problem when I start it [ warning: failed opening CAM device /dev/dvb/adapter0/ca0 (No such file or directory ] I'm using: Mygica S870 ISDB-T. Plz help!
Thanks for the great tutorial. However, I gave up trying to run TV server on Pi. Have it set up on a Core 2 duo PC with 3 TV tuners. Am successfully streaming all networks available in HOBART TASMANIA except ABC. I get nothing when I try to view ABC. Any suggestions?
Hi! I have been watching all of your videos for about 1 year now and i allways retur to this one asking myself if is it possible to use the same concept but somehow use a analog video usb dongle (using rca) and then stream it over multicast/unicast! Peter from Slovenija S59PN / 73
That should be quite easy. You just need to run cvlc as a command to play the input from /dev/video0 or whatever your video source is, and stream output as multicast.
Hello, I bought a TBS5922SE Card, I would like to use it in Linux, I need a help installing this card in Ubuntu 14.04 64 Bits? I tried, but I can not install this card, if possible help me. Thank you
I used to work in a fishshop. Used to get nasty infections from getting stabbed with fish spines when scaling/cleaning. More recently I used to work at TPG - basically they were using consumer USB tv dongles to stream free to air. In a different job they also used a few raspberry pies. Trés Trés dodgy.
Could you use this multicast server to stream to streaming services like Twitch, Facebook, TH-cam Live at the same time if your connection supported the bandwidth?
Nice! Got it running on my network, but when I was streaming 3 channels at once my son started complaining that his (wireless connected) TV stopped playing Netflix ;-)
Haha... my friend, your network is not multicast capable. Most people don't have the right network infrastructure for high bandwidth multicast traffic. See this video th-cam.com/video/fIg_9wJlQX4/w-d-xo.html
CWNE88, yes I know but at home I do not have switches that support IGMP snooping.It was just to try if I got it working with my Pi. Unfortunatly we have only 4 FtA channels., the others are encoded. But i was impressed that the Pi2 had no trouble streaming three channels at once.
In the Netherlands we only have 3 public and one local TV station unscrambled. The commercial stations are scrambled so you need a subscription (and decoder) to watch. DVB-T is mainly used for the outer area's with lack of cable TV and for bedroom TV's. I had a Chinese TV dongle lying around to play with SDR and such. I never use it to watch TV. The public TV channels are all on the same frequency stream.
Are you using a Raspberry Pi to steam this or some other more powerful box? There is a sneaky way to get around this multicast problem that I didn't mention. I may do a video on that one day.
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bloody heck, I was just having a quick browse of TH-cam and now I have to check out your other videos.
hahaha, same here....lmao
I was _expecting_ an explanation of what a "multicast server" is, but you just jumped into instruction, leaving me bewildered...
Maybe you need to learn what is tcp/ip, broadcast, multicast, udp, multicast group and rtsp first? This isn't networking 101 video...
This video is one of the BEST Video for the setting up Multicast TV server, on RPx, BBB, iMX6 in compare to heap loads of others.
Great video, I just have one thing to note. "apt-get update" will only update the package lists, you need to run "apt-get upgrade" afterwards to download and install new versions of packages.
...if you want to upgrade all the existing stuff, sure. I was only interested in the programs that I was putting on to run this.
Ah okay, fair enough. If you're just making sure you had the latest repo info for dvb-apps and dvblast, that'll do the trick.
Great Video matey, got my spare RPi2 up and running streaming dvb-t very quickly with an old DVB-T stick I had laying about. My area of Australia wasn't listed so I used the auto-Australia to scan the whole range until it spat the local frequencies out. From there it wasn't rocket science to create some config files with your guide. The next step was to use VLC to also save the stream out to my PC as an .mp4 was very happy this was easy as well. Thanks for taking the time to post, now I want another 4 Raspberry Pi's and tuners :D
That's the way!
I have a new project in mind to redo all of this. Given the surprising popularity of this system, I might present it a bit better.
Do you have proper switching for this, or are you just getting by as is?
Decent networking. RPi2 +DVB-T are out in my shed where the NBN and TV Antenna terminates, feeds into the local switch and travels into the house with an 802.11q trunk to the switch here. 0 Problems multicasting and streaming a 1080p mkv & browsing over the trunk whilst watching TV streaming. Have just worked out how to make use of the rtp stream in Kodi, so its happy days and I'm now looking at testing/trying an antenna pigtail to see if i can use a cheapy SDR as another tuner :)
Is it just because you have lots of bandwidth on your LAN, or you have IGMP snooping set up? (ie, is it still flooding out all of your ports like a broadcast?)
There is of course nothing worth watching on TV these days. I just have this for the technology aspect of it :)
Yeah my home network isn't that busy so flooding it with the multicast isn't really noticeable. I had a couple of RPi2's running spare so I turned one into an ADB-S receiver feeding data to FR24 and another into the DVB-T receiver from your guide. Also more for the tech fun of it, we don't even have an antenna cable plugged into TV's here and all content is delivered via IP. Now I'm going to acquire some more for another couple of little projects although today's rainy day project might be to just task the 1 RPi2 into a DVB-T and ADS-B receiver/blaster/uploader. Edit: 15 mins later, single RPi2 running both :D.. Got a spare again :D
Be careful with multicast over Wi-Fi.. it will travel at a slow rate on home type systems.
As soon as I have all the parts for my next project, I'll upload it.
holy cow, this is what ive been wanting to do for a long time and struggled to find the right software and get it all set up, wow thank you!
Great, I used to work at a catv headend with this kind of stuff, great memories, cool this guy adapted to a rasppi dev
you can tell this guy is smart. That keyboard what taking a beating. good stuff
can you make a tour of you network lab?
Veso266 he already did
I get what this does, but why do it? I mean, are TVs typically able to tune into a multicast stream so you can omit your traditional antenna installation? And still use your TVs normal channel list with a normal CH+/- operation like a normal person? :)
Or is the point of this to watch with a PCs instead, but without having to plug the dongle and antenna cable into the PC?
Or would you use some media center hardware running some front-end software that can manage these streams along with your other content and sources? So you need an extra device at each TV?
I'm interested in doing this to omit the antenna installation in our house build (that infrastructure should have been made obsolete a decade ago), but if this doesn't just work with TVs in general then I struggle to see the point, at least in my use case, but maybe I'm missing a greater point?
This most probably isn't for you for a home use case. You already gave a couple of examples where it would be used. Think about large corporate networks, hotels, ISPs, basically anyone that is distributing on a large scale.
I'll be doing some more videos on this in greater detail in the very near future so be sure to check them out.
@@TallPaulTech - Awesome, thank you for the clarification, trying to make sure I wasn't missing something glaringly obvious. :)
In Minute 8:35 of this Video you are writing the numbers/adress "225.0.0.41:20000 1"
where did You get Those numbers?
What numbers are these?
Where can i find them?
Which numbers do i have to write?
Which UDP or TCP port do i have to open or forward on a router?
Please help me with this, please.
Honestly, if you're asking that then multicast isn't for you.
I just want to learn it
@@ChicklePega2008Should work fine within the organization local scope block, so 239.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255 and ports should be any from 1-65535. Example addresses that I use are:
239.0.0.1:1000 -> Channel 1
239.0.0.2:1001 -> Channel 2
and so on.
Hi, why don't you plug several Tv tuner in the 4 usb slot of the Raspeberry instead of adding a new raspberry each time you are on a new multiplex ?
Bandwidth.
Hi, I just saw your other video where you try 1 then 2 ... then 4 tuner : I should have started with it :) !
But now I don't understand at all why you talked about bandwidth ?! it's a CPU matter (only) ?
All the TV stations put together adds up to about 120Mb/s. The NIC is only 100Mb/s.
I can't seem to find the tv tuner that you specified. There is a newer version I see, (H837). Could you point me in the right direction?
I bought them years ago. I'm sure others work on Linux, but you'll have to find out which do and which don't.
I see two purposes for these little boards. One is education/research for little expense. Two is drones. I imagine for just about any other use a typical desktop, workstation or server setup would give you much better performance for the cost. Unless the workload is very tiny.
#3 = space
#4 fun
#5 = power consumption
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For space and power consumption I'd go for a NUC or intel compute stick. That's only if I need a thin client or media playback device without storage. I just don't see it having satisfying performance for regular desktop use, even if well tuned for the purpose.
OptimisticPessimist I'm not a supporter of the PI, if I need a linux machine I just get a VPS with datacenter speeds, 24/7 availability and no power cost. Just a bit more expensive in the long run, but you cannot host demanding stuff on a pi. There is also the plus of the support service so if it breaks I can shout to someone and they will fix it
That seems like a silly amount of work to replace a simple TV tuner. Whats the advantage?
Let me enlighten you...
-Let's say you're a network engineer, and you often have to test networks that carry multicast video... you need a test source.
-Maybe you are part of a huge enterprise network that wants to offer TV to thousands of users within your buildings. You wouldn't want to run RF cables for all of that and have everyone use a tuner.
-Maybe you have an interest in digital TV and are curious what bandwidth each use for their data stream given the compression they are using.
-Maybe some people find it fun and enjoyable to do a project like this, put it together, get through the hair pulling parts when you're trying to figure it out, and then have a finished product that works beautifully.
....ever thought that not everything on the Internet has YOU in mind? ;)
Cheers for that except the last line. There is another use; A mate of mine is a network systems designer for blue chip companies. In one office he overheard the HR people talking about the upcoming loss of lots of staff, as in, people calling in sick because of the World Cup football! So he said to them that the cost of adding digital TV to the network so people could watch in the office was less than the cost of lost productivity. They where stunned and went for it. Absenteeism dropped to 0% while morale went up a lot.
See, you've just added another reason for this :)
For a geek that is pleasure, not work. Just replace the "work" with "pleasure" and read the sentence. You will see... ;)
Hotels, motels, airports,,,, etc
Hi, not sure if it's been asked or if I missed it in the video, but,
what USB tuner are you using and what distro of linux?
he says hes using raspian
2:33 avermedia
Would the same principles and commands apply if I was to do this on a linux server instead of a Raspberry PI?
Of course! That's what I used to use before the Raspberry Pi came along.
Sorry if I missed it in the video, but it does a 720p stream? It didn't look like 720p when you open VLC :(
It supports whatever size. It's merely getting data from the antenna, and putting it onto the network. Decoding is the job of the client.
So what about satellite signal could you decode it and send it ?
Sure, if you had a DVB-S adapter that works on Linux. I've never used satellite, but that program includes support for it.
How is the device called which you use for splitting the different frequencies (last clip with the multiple raspberries)? Or is this bound to your satellite antenna/cable connection.
I can see this having the potential to let you digitally capture over the air broadcasts and perhaps properly configured, logging in from anywhere in the world and watching local TV.
Would it work to run with smaller numer of pies which would have 2+ tuners attached? In your setup 2 pies with 3 tuners each should be optimal I guess.
I just tried adding a second adapter. It worked, with each adapter outputting 5 TV stations. The network bandwidth jumped to 36Mb/s.
I'll have to use a newer Pi to test 3 adapters. Given that the NIC is shared with the USB bus internally, it might hit a limit, but I'll try later.
I'm assuming you can set up a sort of DVR function with a recording server for all the channels being streamed right?
If you put your mind to it, you can do anything :)
yeah that's actually somewhat what I wanted to hear!
Although I suspect that with your results of 100MB/s of data the storage computer would need at least a couple SSD buffers.
Depends what you're trying to do in the real world. Each SD channel is about 4Mb/s. Just do something with mplayer to grab it and save the file, and maybe a web interface to control it. Don't ask me for tips on doing that though!
How many channels you can stream per raspberry or transmitter? I read a long time a go you can only stream 3 if they're on the same frequency.
It's only limited by bandwidth (or USB, and NIC). ABC here has about 6 services on one frequency (and therefore one tuner). I have 3 tuners on that Pi for a couple of other frequencies, which all together totals about 70Mb/s
just 70mbps that's fine I think my network can handle that. Thanks for replying.. keep up the good work.
Ok daft question here do you need an aerial splitter for all the tv inputs per raspberi
Or one antenna per, probably better to use seperate antennas, TV towers are in four or five different directions where I live.
Trying to stream DVB-C. My dvb adapter has both DVB-T (0) and DVB-C (1) on different frontends in /dev/dvb/adapter0 but only one dvr (dvr0). When i start dvblast i select frontend 1 which is the DVB-C one but later on in the startup dvblast tries to select dvr1 which does not exist. How can i use frontend1 with dvr0? There are no obvious flags to for selecting dvr.
Solved it on my own. using mumudvb instead of dvblast. I also created link(?) in /dev/dvb/adapter0 with ln -s dvr0 dvr1 and the demuxer in the same way.
I don't know if this is possible and would like a walk through if you do have the time. Instead of using a TV Tuner USB Stick into the Rasberry Pi, is it possible to run through with a Capture device USBstick and have the video feed on playout? I'm trying to use a Raspberry Pi receive the video feed from a Video Capture USB Stick to serve a multicast IP or a better means of playout. I'll appreciate a reply on this.
I'd say your best bet there would be to try VLC. I don't know how it would go though, as there would be some processing involved.
The beauty of this multicast TV system is that there isn't much processing to be done, as it's simply passing the data stream that it receives onto the network as multicast.
I operate a private TV headend, are tunersticks and raspberry pi's stable enough for me to convert each of my open qam tv channels to multicast to different company locations? I'm thinking like hauppauge dual tuner stick and a capable raspberry pi to convert 2 channels each. Your thoughts? Thx.
I take it that each tuner connected to a pi can only be tuned to one station/frequency hence why at the end you mention needing one for each station/frequency and its channels.
is there any cards that can be tuned to all stations/frequencies or is that just a limitation of using a usb dv tuner on a pi in this application?
ps. kudo's on the video, nice little project to test out when I get some free time and a pi.
These particular (and most) devices can only tune one frequency.
Also, the bandwidth of all the tv services on one frequency (at 7MHz RF bandwidth) is about 23Mb/s. All 6 of the Raspberry Pi added together is more than the 100Mb/s NIC on the device.
Having one card/frequency per Raspberry Pi is a comfortable workload for it.
Thanks mate, makes sense.
Now I've got to ask, what "switching" would you recommend for this or are you getting at the capacity and quality of the switch? I'm looking at this for when we move house so we can watch FTA on mobile devices etc around the house over WiFi if it's practical. Can we get away with one tuner/pi per network or do we need one per PID if multiple people could be dragging multiple programs from the same transmitter? What minimum Pi would you recommend?
You'll need a switch that can do IGMP, but if you're planning on using it over Wi-Fi then you'll need a Wi-Fi system that can convert multicast to unicast, which is generally enterprise equipment. See my series on tv for an alternative idea using TCP.
will that tuner support and shit out multiple channels at once, so different PCs or phone, etc can watch all something different at the same time?
Yes indeed. All channels are output simultaneously. Each tuner will output all the channels that are muxed in that frequency that it's tuned into.
Do you have so many tuners simply to avoid retuning to view different channels? Wouldn't it be far more network efficient to have a single channel streamed at a time and some way of requesting the channel to be changed? Or are you or some service actually consuming up to all those channels simultaneously?
6 tuners because there are 6 frequencies in use here, giving a total of 20something channels.
This is the most network efficient IF the network is multicast capable. That's extremely important.
This way, the server (Raspberry Pi) only ever has to serve the channel once, so it just feeds it to the switch. The switching infrastructure does the rest of the work, so could stream to many thousands.
If you had them all trying to get an individual stream (unicast) from the Raspberry Pi, it would die after serving a few clients.
CWNE88 thanks for the info. I understand all the networking aspects, I just don't think I appreciate the fact you can't make these switch frequency on demand (when you want to watch a channel on another frequency). I'm comparing this to Freeview tuners in the UK though which might be apples to your oranges
I've done away with that need, as all frequencies are covered, so it stays simple
If you find those *â* border symbols annoying, you can fix them in that saved PuTTY session. I'm not 100% certain. But, IIRC, I think it's...
_Connection > Data > Terminal-type string_
Change it from *xterm* to *putty*.
It just tells the SSH server which client you're using. I think old servers are normally compatible with XTerm. So PuTTY uses it as the default.
unicast or multicast which is better for home I have 5 tv in my house with kodi box
If you don't have a proper switch that can do IGMP (which most home stuff doesn't) then just do unicast. This multicast stuff is for large scale.
Great tutorial. I'm in Hobart. Followed your directions, am now scanning. All networks except SBS are detected. SBS is the one I want most. What do I have to do?
Did you use auto-Australia or au-Hobart? Use the auto-Australia which scans every channel.
How about doing this when you have a lot of encrypted channels which needs a CI-module + card to decrypt? Any solution for that?
I do have a Hauppauge DVB-T USB device and a Hauppauge USB CI device.
Tvheadend might be able to integrate the CI
hmmm...
The TT CT-3650 will work under linux and it has the CI module. See supported cards in Linux here: wiki.openelec.tv/index.php/Supported_TV_Tuners
That seems to work very well ... but is this really worth it compared to buying let's say an HD Homerun? .... pi's and tuners add up in cost.
When choosing the multi-cast group where do I obtain the ip address from? For example in the video you have 225.0.0.41:20000 for channel ten.
Just pick one. You should actually start with 239.0.0.1 and upwards from there.
Can this also be done with DVB-S2 usb dongles?
Sat>IP server via UPnP or DNLA would be nice.
I believe so. I've never done satellite stuff though, but the program has the parameters for it.
I'd be interested to see how it goes.
What country are you in?
My country is Belgium.
Cool. Let us know how you go
is it possible to stream multiple TV channels at the same time using a single TV dongle?
Yes if they are on the same frequency.
CWNE88 Howcome more than one TV channel be on same frequency? that would interfere with each other as per i know incase of more than one analog frequency but incase of digital is that possible to receive more than one channel on same frequency?
It's digital data. Lots of things can be put in a digital data stream. It's just a bunch of bits being used however. In this case, there are different video streams put into the overall data stream on that frequency.
CWNE88 So you mean to say that it's possible to broadcast more than one DVB channel on same frequency? I would also like to know is there a way to decrypt and watch encrypted DVB channels using the Realtek tuner if I have the smart card of my subscription.
You have a palo alto firewall, did you buy it new? They're about $1k aren't they?
I got it from somewhere. I don't use it anymore. I've gone back to pfSense :)
Have followed all instructions, including CWNE88's about using auto-Australia. Have checked the route on the PI, seems OK. But on my Windows PC, VLC just shows a blank window when I try to connect. I'm using this PC to connect to the Pi by SSL and VNC so I know it sees the Pi fine. Can anyone help?
So you're trying to watch it on your windows machine, and it's on the same network at the Pi? Have you checked with Wireshark that the data is hitting the interface?
Basically, is the LED on the Raspberry Pi flashing like hell? (it should be absolutely non-stop)
I'm just above newbie when it comes to networks. In my career I was an applications programmer, and I have good problem solving skills in that area. I have obtained Wireshark on the PC, and am attempting to learn how to use it. I ran dvblast on the Pi - and I stopped it. There's a row of LEDs, and I could not discern any appreciable difference between how they looked when dvblast was running, and when it was not.
Hi,
I'm following your guild to setup a tv server but I am having trouble when scanning for channels. I keep receiving ":TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE (tuning failed)" and not sure what the problem is nor how to fix it. Perhaps you have encounter this problem before and could help with a solution?
Check your tv card is alive and well first with:
ls /dev/dvb
ls: cannot access /dev/dvb: No such file or directory
Guess I missed that part! Will Try again and see if I can successfully set the server up.
Make sure you've got the firmware for your adapter in /lib/firmware/
Realtek RTL2832U reference design saying it is in warm state! Other than that it is giving me hell trying to set the thing up because firstly I am not sure if that is the correct on-board adapter? Secondly, I tried a BlazeTV turner I bought but the people whom made it only seem to know about Windows. No, I didn't know it was Windows only when I bought it off Amazon, the seller failed to mention it. Thirdly whenever, I try to make any source code for the adapters mentioned "Make" causes an error.
So if it's in warm state, that would imply that it's in /dev/dvb. Is it?
Well now... I got 2 PI's sitting on my desk at work for months. You just gave me a use for them. The kids will shit when I set this up, thanks for posting this. 👍
windows has a built in formatting tool. go to file explorer-> this pc and right click the drive you want to format. then click format and for a raspi, select FAT, for a windows drive, select NTFS. uncheck quick format and leave everything else default. it may take a few hours for large (250GB+) drives
SD cards should only be formatted with an SD format tool or the performance and possibly wear leveling can suffer. Windows 10 might do it okay but better to be safe than sorry.
Windoze makes a mess out of Flash devices, use the industry standard SD Formatter from SD Association
erg0centric Yet ironically I have to boot into Windows to use the SD Formatter as I'm not sure of any way to do it from Linux.
Of course its a none issue if you have a clean SD card as they will already be formatted correctly. Plus you can always try in a phone or camera, they are meant to conform correctly.
Alex Atkin agreed, but I think its the other way around, you need to download the tool because the one that comes wwith windoze is crap.
erg0centric
You can't trust any really unless you know they are designed for SD. I should hope the Windows 10 one is, but no idea and better to be safe and use the proper formatter.
The PA networks firewall you have, well I'm assuming it's firewall-- what model is it? And are you using a business class internet that comes with a static ip?
Hi,
I wanto to build a multicast tv server with a DVB-S2 USB card.
Can HDTV channels be streamd at you?
Best regards!
Pewnie ze tak
...chyba :)
CWNE88 alternatywę jako serwer widzę Intel NUC. HD jest jednak teraz normą xd
Ten serwer dziala na mpeg2 albo h.264 bez problemo.
Ja niestety nigdy nie bawilem sie z DVB-S bo tu w Australii nie sa popularny. Wiem ze w Polsce sa wszedzie, ale program z dvb-apps nazywa sie 'scan' jest na dvb-t albo dvb-s. Jezeli ty masz karte dvb-s, mozesz probowac. Jestem ciekawy jak dziala.
W Warszawa para lat temu bylo test z DVB-T. Bylo na 2 ciestotliwosci. Nie wiem jak jest tam teraz, ale pewnie cos jest tam gdzie ty mieszkasz.
działa :) właśnie streamuję 2 kanały HD (TVN7 HD i TTV HD)
Can you advice, howmuch raspberry PI and avermedia usb to build multicast IPTV for 10 Channel/Program, and Stream to 30 Client
It depends on how many frequencies are required to be tuned in by the receivers.
10 frequency
Please confirm: You are basically turning your Pi in a 'HDHomeRun?' I presume I would be able to connect that to a plex server as I would a HDHomeRun device?
I don't know what a HDHomeRUn is, or a plex server, sorry
Haha. It sounds like you attack that keyboard like your trying to kill it.
I know, I was thinking the same thing. It sounds like he is just pounding the hell out of that keyboard!
It's a good example of a love and hate relationship =)
i know hey, his poor enter key
might be a mechanical keyboard, sounds like it
I sometimes type the same, especially when I am typing things that I type regularly, like passwords or certain short sentences.
This is amazing, thank you for this. Never crossed my mind to do this. Keep the vids coming! Ever tried it into kodi?
Sorry If I missed it but what device is the antenna interface? like model number
I love the low power idear.. I uses MythTv back end on a Ubuntu box, mythtv can allow the same dab multi-cast. and use a load of poe pis running openelec as front end's.
how much did it end up costing, if you don't mine me asking.
Great tutorial mate. Regarding multicast UDP traffic killing the network, are there some best practices (outside of using VLAN's etc) that one should follow? I'm doing a similar thing at the moment except I will be rebroadcasting CCTV streams to OSMC's pi's around the house.
Thanks!
You NEED to have a switch that can do IGMP snooping and avoid flooding to all ports, pure and simple. If you're planning on doing multicast video over Wi-Fi, then if it's general home grade equipment, forget it.
Are there any set-top recievers (roku, etc..) that you can setup a way to conveniently watch these streams on a regular TV? ie: think of "wife acceptance factor" in the definition of "convenient" :-) Or, can these streams be recorded in the new DVR feature of PLEX?
I've just been starting to look into this to see if this was possible to cut out my cable provider and have been watching several of your videos. Could I ask you a few questions?
1. I'm assuming this would all work in the USA?
2. Are you using a regular antenna as your input feed? I was planning on using a small internal digital antenna.
3. How would I get the video streams from the server to a TV? I only have 1 TV that is a smart TV while others are not. Would I need something like another computer (or RPi) to act as a receiver to feed each TV?
Anyway, thanks for the great information and hopefully it helps me.
Is there any way to get something like kodi for a frontend to view these channels?
Kodi/XBMC plays rtp streams just fine, just create a playlist file for it with the same udp address.
Well currently I use tvheadend but I like the idea of multicasting a whole MUX rather than individual streams for each client. I need to get KODI to see the available streams and somehow have an epg.
Nice video... But I'm just looking to connect my computer as remote desktop to the pi, (I wanna show my desktop on the TV) using my computer or ipad on the TV remotely... Can't find anything on this
Thank you for this video. Can I ask - what do you use as an amp and what do you use for a splitter to all those Pi/Tuners you have? Does the 'blaster' pipe out the video 'on demand' or it always streaming on your network? How do you manage all those multicast groups - to make sure you don't reuse ones on different rPis? Is it just a case of having a unique port for each pi? Finally how much bandwidth do they take up when streaming? Is it - 'number Of Channels * 7 Mbps'? Thanks again, John.
Currently I have no RF amp, just a splitter from the antenna on the roof.
The Raspberry pi is constantly outputing all channels. The switch takes care of forwarding to who wants them (look up multicast and IGMP).
Each channel has its own multicast group.
Bandwidth depends on the channel content. For SD channels it's about 2.5Mb/s.
Hi Great videos, do you have any ideas on how I can transcode UDP multicast on a Pi so I can present it in a webpage using a HTML video tag using .FLV perhaps?
I think you're asking a bit much of the Raspberry Pi.
Basically I'm running a digital display with the pi, but I'll probably end up serving it from an Ubuntu machine - It's strange as the Pi can happily receive UDP multicast via the native VLC program but as soon as I try and use the VLC plugin via a browser it hits 100% cpu, so I was hoping to transcode my multicast stream to live FLV feed so it could be presented via the naive tag on a browser.. have you had any experience with transcoding?
Nope.
Hi! Can this manual help to create Pi3 Iptv server with tranfering to usuall Tv's via coax cable?
I`m install on my pi3 osmc and add there acestream with iptv.
I wan't to let pi3 like server and use Tv's like with my TV provider.
How do u make that little screen can u tell me
Plzzzz
What small screen?
The VLC media player? The SSH windows?
He's using PuTTy on his Windows machine to SSH into the RPi and then launches VLC on his Windows machine to connect to the multicast group
Do you mean the piface lcd ?
yes
Very interesting stuff. Now you have inspired me to try it going the other way and run the tv station off a PI. :-)
That's the way. What country are you in?
I'm in the US, for now. I think I've got most of the bits I need worked out to broadcast to cable from the PI using ffmpeg, with a few glitches here and there. (Cheap decoders and mpeg2 are finicky things.)
It's all for chuckles though, really. I can just imagine running the station off a Raspberry PI instead of a $20,000+ server. I wholeheartedly agree though, TV is just a pathetic thing, but the technology behind it is kind of interesting.
I like your style... but, the US doesn't use DVB-T and I think you're trying to do something different anyway.
People ask why I have this thing... it's just great for testing as it's a high bandwidth multicast video data source. Very handy.
Hey mate, great tutorial - couple of questions:
- What is the minimum hardware for this? Raspberry Pi 2 Model B or better? Or can it run on the Original Raspberry Pi?
- As the Raspberry Pi 2 B has 4 USB ports, can it host multiple TV tuners on one device?
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Good day. Are these channels you are streaming open or are they payed for/encrypted channels? I'd like to do something like this to not have to pay for TV like DSTV or any other payed subscription type service... Would this setup work?
"I do not watch TV! TV is just a pathetic thing. I'm in this purely for the technology side of it. "
true!
that is why i love tv. Not for the content, for what it goes behind it.
May i ask where you got the AVerMedia AVerTV Volar Green with the right firmware from please? Also great video Subbed!!
It was years ago, and I can't remember.
No probs i'll try my luck on EBAY thanks for the reply thou, keep up the good vids!!!
Hi, Do you have anything setup to record or pause live tv?
You can just press record on VLC to record it.
Have you tried tvheadend yet? I just got it working on Debian Jessie in a VM with my ATSC stick, I'm fully impressed it works so well!
it's possible to use Elgato DTT deluxe? I'm having some problems with firmware!
Can we get an updated review on this it's been about 2 years now wondering if you're still using it or if you moved on to something else for TV
Funny you should say that. I'm going to do it again step by step, and talk about all the components that go towards it.
Right now I'm using a powered 5 port USB hub on a server rather than a Raspberry Pi, simply because it's more stable power-wise than the Pi.
What connection do you need to have for upload 1 SD and one HD channel online?
It's multicast. It doesn't go online.
Do you maybe have any contact, i have few more questions. Thx
Ask away. Others may be interested too
I have 12 channels that i want to put online. Can i do that on this way as you do this system or?
And what is minimum speed for upload?
It's multicast. You can't just put multicast on the Internet.
where my tv is mounted, there's no antenna cable (old concrete house), can I use one Pi to stream thru my home's wifi? I dont want wires running on the side of the house.
are you changing keyboard every week. ? that enter key must feel a bit pressure
What is the practical purpose for this?
You can stream tv channels on your home network, media player or to the internet.
Chris Bautista like chromecast?
So it's kind of like HDHomeRun?
Could you also record the stream? 'Cause I would totally have a neural network keep an eye on the Bloomberg channel
Brandon Golway only more manageable. If I can make this work with an ATSC dongle, I may need to try it.
Is there also a way to stream from dvd/playstation/sky box or whatever.
Very interesting video, Thanks.
Tell me please,
What brand, model and version is your DVB usb dongle?
From the description....
Tuner is AVerMedia AVerTV Volar Green
There are 2 models, but the good one uses firmware dvb-usb-it9135-02.fw The other one uses dvb-usb-af9035-02.fw but that didn't seem to work as well and got hot. They look the same on the outside though.
ID 07ca:3835 AVerMedia Technologies, Inc. AVerTV Volar Green HD (A835B)
how many channels could this stream per fequency also could the pi handle more then 1 usb adapter ?
Dan? So only good in Europe? Anything like this for USA?
Not just Europe, but much of the world. USA doesn't use DVB though so I can't help you there I'm afraid.
Hi, can you do this with any other AVerTV model? I need a DVB-T2 tuner. Please advise.
How many people can view 1 stream using one Raspberry PI?
Thank you
Hi, can I stream the channels also to the Internet? If yes, is it possible to change the bitrate so that it will use less bandwidth?
Hi is it possible to use ubuntu 18.4 for muticast with avermedia AVerMedia AVerTV Volar Green
Hi, I'm trying to apply the same system but in Ecuador, you could help me in how to generate the scan file for my country, since all the articles I'm looking for do not have anything detailed to apply it,
being that this is multicast every machine gets it without filtering enabled,
say my switches don't support the filtering, and/or I only want 1 machine to receive all the streams and buffer/record them then transmit in RTSP unicast on demand.do I put a standard address in to transmit only in unicast (e.g. 192.168.1.100-200)
or what if I put in the address of the server and change the port number?
Hypothetically, this doesn't have to be just free to air.. Does it?
Theoretically it can do others, but I just kept it simple with free to air.
CWNE88 cough.. Cough foxtel. Cough cough
Hi where did you learn what to type in the command line and what they do?
hi greetings from chile , i have a big list on a iptv , but i cant send to internet out of my network , only can see in the intranet network , you can help me how that make this posible
That's because it's multicast. You can't send multicast out onto the Internet.
im try to send whit ip encoder , on my pc recieve UDP://@239.0.0.1 and encoding and transmit to 127.0.0.1:8888/iptv_001 , this method works! , but my CPU up to 99 % whit 4 channels transmit :(
Udpxy
I have a problem when I start it [ warning: failed opening CAM device /dev/dvb/adapter0/ca0 (No such file or directory ] I'm using: Mygica S870 ISDB-T. Plz help!
Thanks for the great tutorial. However, I gave up trying to run TV server on Pi. Have it set up on a Core 2 duo PC with 3 TV tuners. Am successfully streaming all networks available in HOBART TASMANIA except ABC. I get nothing when I try to view ABC. Any suggestions?
holy crap what is connected to all those cables, what are you running? multi servers of some kind?
and why use rpi2 when 3 is out
These are R-Pi 1. They do the job nicely and have for years.
How would you record the streams ?
Press record on VLC
I really mean all 6 streams at once - don't say 6 VLC's ;-)
myozone I'm no expert, but why not 6 VLC's?
Can you post the instruction list or the How-to list on all the commands and the reasoning's behind them?
Hi! I have been watching all of your videos for about 1 year now and i allways retur to this one asking myself if is it possible to use the same concept but somehow use a analog video usb dongle (using rca) and then stream it over multicast/unicast!
Peter from Slovenija
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That should be quite easy. You just need to run cvlc as a command to play the input from /dev/video0 or whatever your video source is, and stream output as multicast.
@@TallPaulTech tnx!!! will try it :) just recived my new rpi4!
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So is this what IPTV providers use ie 500 channels = 500 of these Pi's (or similar)??
Does the software support streaming via RTMP or only RTP ?
Do you work for TPG by any chance?
I work in a fish and chip shop
I used to work in a fishshop. Used to get nasty infections from getting stabbed with fish spines when scaling/cleaning.
More recently I used to work at TPG - basically they were using consumer USB tv dongles to stream free to air. In a different job they also used a few raspberry pies.
Trés Trés dodgy.
Could you use this multicast server to stream to streaming services like Twitch, Facebook, TH-cam Live at the same time if your connection supported the bandwidth?
Nice! Got it running on my network, but when I was streaming 3 channels at once my son started complaining that his (wireless connected) TV stopped playing Netflix ;-)
Haha... my friend, your network is not multicast capable. Most people don't have the right network infrastructure for high bandwidth multicast traffic.
See this video
th-cam.com/video/fIg_9wJlQX4/w-d-xo.html
CWNE88, yes I know but at home I do not have switches that support IGMP snooping.It was just to try if I got it working with my Pi. Unfortunatly we have only 4 FtA channels., the others are encoded. But i was impressed that the Pi2 had no trouble streaming three channels at once.
Hans Combee
Were they all on the same frequency? Which area?
In the Netherlands we only have 3 public and one local TV station unscrambled. The commercial stations are scrambled so you need a subscription (and decoder) to watch. DVB-T is mainly used for the outer area's with lack of cable TV and for bedroom TV's. I had a Chinese TV dongle lying around to play with SDR and such. I never use it to watch TV. The public TV channels are all on the same frequency stream.
Are you using a Raspberry Pi to steam this or some other more powerful box?
There is a sneaky way to get around this multicast problem that I didn't mention. I may do a video on that one day.
What model was this TV tuner?
I wish it was for dvbc with CI+ module. Can’t find anywhere such tutorial