Tvheadend is the leading TV streaming server and recorder for Linux supporting ATSC, DVB-C/C2, DVB-S/S2, DVB-T/T2, ISDB-T, IPTV, SAT>IP and HDHomeRun input sources. Tvheadend outputs HTTP (VLC, MPlayer), HTSP (Kodi, Movian) and SAT>IP streams, and 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.
History
The project started in 2006 as the personal hobby of Andreas Smas before moving to an open-source GPLv3 license and switching to community ownership and governance in 2012. Andreas has not been active for a long time but remains in the background and has kept things ticking over when maintainers have stepped back and new faces have emerged. The current project team is small but committed to ensuring Tvheadend continues to release great software that helps people get the best from broadcast media.
Contributing
Tvheadend is developed for and by our user community, and we are always keen on contributions to our codebase and documentation. If you see something that needs to be fixed or corrected - please take the intiative and give something back to the project!
Supporters
We would like to publicly thank the following companies and organisations for supporting Tvheadend with free or free-within-limits access to their products and services:
Cloudflare protect our website and forums and provide domain management services
Cloudsmith host a repository of nightly binaries for testing and development
Flarum create the awesome forum software we use
FriendsOfFlarum create many useful plugins for Flarum that we use
GitBook host our documentation and awesome markdown editor tools
GitHub host our codebase and run the CI pipelines that build nightly binaries
Libera.Chat host the #hts IRC channel for real-time user chat
Mailgun ensure outbound emails from our forum are reliably delivered
OpenSourceCollective provide 501(c)(6) fiscal sponsorship allowing us to accept and spend donations transparently
Transifex allow translators to wrangle our documentation into many languages
WhiteQuark provides easily searched logs of the #hts IRC channel
1Password provide a secure way for the team to manage credentials and sensitive data
