Is RaspPI 4 enough for this setup?

Morbid Angel

Hi, I want to setup TVH for my IPTV provider. It should be able to stream 4x up to 4K Live TV at the same time. I've a Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB RAM. Is a RPi 4 enough for this (performance)?

Alternatively I could buy a RPi5 with 8GB.

TiA
Greetz

Jonas Lang

Best advice is to try it if you already have an RPI4 and judge for yourself. Simple enough to set up https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-tvheadend/

Carsten Bager

I have a tvheadend running on a Pi 4.
It looks like this (in TOP) when there are 2 TV channels active, I use a "Hauppauge WinTV-dualHD" as receiver.

For me it works fine.

Tasks: 185 total, 1 running, 184 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 1,1 us, 1,6 sy, 0,0 ni, 97,1 id, 0,0 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,2 si, 0,0 st
MiB Mem : 3794,3 total, 3045,9 free, 227,4 used, 520,9 buff/cache

MiB Swap: 100,0 total, 100,0 free, 0,0 used. 3457,3 avail Mem

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
645 hts 20 0 318976 35828 13544 S 8,9 0,9 4:59.35 tvheadend