This series has been utterly brilliant. Thanks so much for covering all the stages needed for building a proper TV server, and the network data transport considerations you need to take into account, and for putting so much detailed information into it.
@@TallPaulTech Broadcast TV angers me too much to actually watch these days, but I set up a TVHeadend-based server on our network largely for the other people in the house, and so I can occasionally record new episodes of Alan Partridge!
Would love to see videos with the new RPi TV Hat, the tvheadend package, commercial analogue /digital transmod solutions, EFDA/HFC distribution and off the shelf STBs
All the methods you shown, stream the data as they are received through DVB, i.e. no transcoding, right? I use to receive the DVB data from satellite and transcoding it using tvheadend at lower bitrates. That approach seems to be better when I need to stream the channels outside my LAN.
You're right, no transcoding. Lots of things can be done with the data once you've received it, but the main thing here was to show multicast tv data as it is received going through a LAN.
Haha, I was wondering if someone would suggest that. Yes I tried it but it made no difference. It doesn't worry me, just something I wanted to share to watch out for.
I appreciate the versatiity of VLC, but for most people its not an intuitive way for watching TV. Is there an app (other than Kodi) that can take the multicast stream and display it in a nice, intuituve GUI for non-techy people to use? Could you pull the streams and their EPG info into Plex on a PC/Mac for example?
I occasionally watch a sporting event or an old show but it's pretty rare. I haven't turned my TV on in weeks now. Still, I would like to be able to stream and record the occasional show. This doesn't apply specifically to me, as I'm in the US but it's still fascinating to watch and some of the tools you use, like wireshark, will be useful. Thanks for the video.
Hi, I have gone through all of your videos of TV technology I want to ask you 1 question that how many channels I can play on network at one time using one USB tuner?
Wait you have half a dozen raspberry Pi's streaming channels to your network and they are not used? Does anyone else in the house watch them? Lol, been very cool learning about how networks carry data, that was just a fun twist at the end... So what do you display on all your screens all over the house?
I serve the tv from a more powerful computer that I mentioned in the previous video with 5 adapters on a USB hub. It pumps the data into the switch, and generally stops right there. I don't have screens all over the house. It's mostly just bare walls. You may have noticed a piano instead. That seemed like a better thing to put in there than a screen ;)
Oh I guess I am confused, I had thought you have a stack of raspberry Pi's under you stairs or something that all inject tv on to the network. Love your videos, you have convinced me that I need to get a real enterprise switch someday and move beyond my basic switches...
I appreciate this whole series, it taught me a lot! Thanks for your time and efforts! I'd be interested in seeing more about multicast etc if you have anything else to add :)
I understand you aren't familiar with the U.S. standard, but would you be able to tell me what is the biggest difference from what you've shown over the last few weeks vs. the US standard? I was planning on using this series as a great "how to" for my own work, but is it just the frequency ranges that are likely to be different or is it NTSC vs PAL or something else? Thanks again for all the videos - so funny that you don't even watch TV!
The Digital U.S. Standard is ATSC for OTA. Channel Bandwidth is 6MHz instead of 7MHz. Encoding is slightly different than DVB-T which I believe is more forgiving in that regard, though the format of the stream seems to be the same. It's an MPEG Transport Stream container with MPEG-2 Video and AC3 Audio. But I think it's now MPEG-4 for video and AVC for audio for his standard (DVB-T). I've actually just ordered a PCIe video capture card here and hoping my networking fu will be able to adapt what he's doing to something similar. I believe ATSC 3.0 was just recently finalized this week which should allow for 4K content over the Air in the states, deployment looks to be late 2020. I'm presuming that your in the states, but for the uninitiated, there really isn't much over the air (and even less over open Satellite, unless you like televangelists). There is some new channels that have recently popped up, Primarily you get OTA for, Local News and Emergency updates and PBS (public broadcasting service). Though I really like his thinking regarding using this tech for testing Quality of Service mechanisms, something that i'm going to likely suggest to have adopted at my job. I do believe you can watch all of the PBS shows on their website anyways.
Why do you use .strm files instead of m3u? I think a better solution is Kodi + IPTV Simple Client plugin + .m3u. In this case, you can have EPG and TV logos. You need to have a guide.xml file for EPG data and channel logos. It looks very good.
Hey try to allocate more memory to GPU using RaspberryPi Config->Performance and in GPU memory put 128 instead of 64. You will get better performance :)
What a great series of videos, most helpful on something I want to do. I would be grateful if you could do an updated video on how to build a personal, home server, so I can run my own web sites, with outside access, and be safe. Regards Kevin.
@@TallPaulTech I was watching the Raspberry Pi alarm video you made, that's pretty cool how you made that. If you run Home Assistent on it you can integrate it with IoT devices and make your whole home automated, voice controlled if you want, you can even integrate it with Google Assistent or one of the other brands or just run it all locally, no cloud needed and to my opinion Home Assistent is the best way to make it all work together and reliable which is the most important part of home automation that it always works even without internet.
This series has been utterly brilliant. Thanks so much for covering all the stages needed for building a proper TV server, and the network data transport considerations you need to take into account, and for putting so much detailed information into it.
Thanks mate. I might have to do some deep dives into other things too.
The plot twist was a thing of beauty, esp. at this stage; "I don't watch TV, I can't stand it"!
Oh I wanted to say more about what I think of TV, but I just left it at that ;)
@@TallPaulTech Broadcast TV angers me too much to actually watch these days, but I set up a TVHeadend-based server on our network largely for the other people in the house, and so I can occasionally record new episodes of Alan Partridge!
@@mikebailey783 Yeah, I've got better things to do than put up with TV nonsense. Like, making TH-cam videos :)
Would love to see videos with the new RPi TV Hat, the tvheadend package, commercial analogue /digital transmod solutions, EFDA/HFC distribution and off the shelf STBs
All the methods you shown, stream the data as they are received through DVB, i.e. no transcoding, right?
I use to receive the DVB data from satellite and transcoding it using tvheadend at lower bitrates.
That approach seems to be better when I need to stream the channels outside my LAN.
You're right, no transcoding. Lots of things can be done with the data once you've received it, but the main thing here was to show multicast tv data as it is received going through a LAN.
Great videos. I learnt a lot. Could something similar be done with the DAB+ Radio stations being broadcast?
That's something I'd like to do. I haven't looked into it yet though.
Have you tried increasing the size of the UDP buffer on the raspberry pi? I had to do that so it would play security camera streams without issues.
Haha, I was wondering if someone would suggest that. Yes I tried it but it made no difference. It doesn't worry me, just something I wanted to share to watch out for.
I am from philippines and I have a cable subscription, what usb tv tuner should I use?
I appreciate the versatiity of VLC, but for most people its not an intuitive way for watching TV. Is there an app (other than Kodi) that can take the multicast stream and display it in a nice, intuituve GUI for non-techy people to use? Could you pull the streams and their EPG info into Plex on a PC/Mac for example?
I occasionally watch a sporting event or an old show but it's pretty rare. I haven't turned my TV on in weeks now. Still, I would like to be able to stream and record the occasional show. This doesn't apply specifically to me, as I'm in the US but it's still fascinating to watch and some of the tools you use, like wireshark, will be useful. Thanks for the video.
"I don't watch TV", 💯
Hi, I have gone through all of your videos of TV technology I want to ask you 1 question that how many channels I can play on network at one time using one USB tuner?
Is there any CAM module support? Also is there DVB-C support?
Wait you have half a dozen raspberry Pi's streaming channels to your network and they are not used? Does anyone else in the house watch them? Lol, been very cool learning about how networks carry data, that was just a fun twist at the end... So what do you display on all your screens all over the house?
I serve the tv from a more powerful computer that I mentioned in the previous video with 5 adapters on a USB hub. It pumps the data into the switch, and generally stops right there.
I don't have screens all over the house. It's mostly just bare walls. You may have noticed a piano instead. That seemed like a better thing to put in there than a screen ;)
Oh I guess I am confused, I had thought you have a stack of raspberry Pi's under you stairs or something that all inject tv on to the network. Love your videos, you have convinced me that I need to get a real enterprise switch someday and move beyond my basic switches...
I appreciate this whole series, it taught me a lot! Thanks for your time and efforts! I'd be interested in seeing more about multicast etc if you have anything else to add :)
Thanks so much for this, an excellent series.
I understand you aren't familiar with the U.S. standard, but would you be able to tell me what is the biggest difference from what you've shown over the last few weeks vs. the US standard? I was planning on using this series as a great "how to" for my own work, but is it just the frequency ranges that are likely to be different or is it NTSC vs PAL or something else? Thanks again for all the videos - so funny that you don't even watch TV!
The Digital U.S. Standard is ATSC for OTA. Channel Bandwidth is 6MHz instead of 7MHz. Encoding is slightly different than DVB-T which I believe is more forgiving in that regard, though the format of the stream seems to be the same. It's an MPEG Transport Stream container with MPEG-2 Video and AC3 Audio. But I think it's now MPEG-4 for video and AVC for audio for his standard (DVB-T). I've actually just ordered a PCIe video capture card here and hoping my networking fu will be able to adapt what he's doing to something similar. I believe ATSC 3.0 was just recently finalized this week which should allow for 4K content over the Air in the states, deployment looks to be late 2020. I'm presuming that your in the states, but for the uninitiated, there really isn't much over the air (and even less over open Satellite, unless you like televangelists). There is some new channels that have recently popped up, Primarily you get OTA for, Local News and Emergency updates and PBS (public broadcasting service). Though I really like his thinking regarding using this tech for testing Quality of Service mechanisms, something that i'm going to likely suggest to have adopted at my job. I do believe you can watch all of the PBS shows on their website anyways.
Why do you use .strm files instead of m3u? I think a better solution is Kodi + IPTV Simple Client plugin + .m3u. In this case, you can have EPG and TV logos. You need to have a guide.xml file for EPG data and channel logos. It looks very good.
Hey try to allocate more memory to GPU using RaspberryPi Config->Performance and in GPU memory put 128 instead of 64. You will get better performance :)
Really awesome series for TV over the network, thanks for doing that so comprehensive. Helps a lot!
Greetings from Denmark
Hi mate. Thanks for that. Glad it made it all the way over there!
Hi Paul , There is a way to convert IP streams into rf channels?
Do you mean to transmit?
Você já tentou fazer encoder (downscale) usando a gpu da raspberry em h264? 🤔
What a great series of videos, most helpful on something I want to do. I would be grateful if you could do an updated video on how to build a personal, home server, so I can run my own web sites, with outside access, and be safe. Regards Kevin.
Thanks for the series! It has been awesome.
Thanks a lot. There'll be other stuff coming.
Cracking series mate!!!
Very good. I like it. My try it myself
Very rare that I watch any TV. Commercial TV in particular. Just no time for it - and I HATE being advertised to.
I don't watch tv myself, I don't even own a tv anymore for probably the same reasons as you do.
Yeah, it's pretty much pointless
@@TallPaulTech I was watching the Raspberry Pi alarm video you made, that's pretty cool how you made that.
If you run Home Assistent on it you can integrate it with IoT devices and make your whole home automated, voice controlled if you want, you can even integrate it with Google Assistent or one of the other brands or just run it all locally, no cloud needed and to my opinion Home Assistent is the best way to make it all work together and reliable which is the most important part of home automation that it always works even without internet.
Awesome stuff, Keep it coming!
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Its a standard! 😁
THE BEST! 👍👍👍
stream echoes while udp packets drop.
Magnifique
Thank You!
You're most welcome.
:) only watching TH-cam. No TV 📺
Pretty much!