Very nice video again! Very interested in the LibreNMS stats you we're showing, is that also something you can run on that Rasberry Pi syslog server you have..?
I have 5 tuners (it9135v2) on a powered hub on my raspberry pi 2B. I'm not doing multicast, but using tvheadend. So only the actually watched channels are sent to the switch. I know, there are situations when the multicast is better and in other situations the simulcast is do the work.
Hi, is a very interesting configuration. But what if I would like to create something similar not with DVB-Tuner but with a Capture device, like for example the AverMedia Live Gamer Portable?
Can you explain it more the rule of default Gateway for having Multicast to work? I'm trying to create multicast network stream with FFmpeg on a Win11 machine the Multicast didn't work but when I send it to the other PC in the network it works.
How cool. I travel a lot and now I think I might be able to watch my home area local TV from my hotel.. Just foe fun. But this could server nicely for Ham Radio.
This is brilliant. Just subscribed as I'd realised I've just watched a bunch of your videos one after the other. Had some raspberry pi's knocking about for years and never did anything with them. I think I've just found my next project! Do you use any specific software to act as a client to these streams? Something that will keep things in some sort of order Vs remembering multi cast groups? Thanks for sharing!
VLC is the best client. Together with the SAP server, you can just click on the announced stream. Kodi also works if you make a .strm file with the multicast group details.
If I want to start my own iptv service with over 5k channels. Do I actually need a source box for each channel? I mean, 5k channels would require a house full of source boxes. There must be another way around it no?
What about to make fullscreen on tv monitor then use remote to change the channel? I want end user able to change the channel using remote and do you think stiil use vlc as the full screen?
Witch OS are you using on you Raspberry Pi? I'd like to use a raspberry Pi with a Dvb-t receiver. I've been using my laptop but I'd like to use a Raspberry instead. The other thing is that I really like the windows media center interface and its simplicity. Thanks
I suppose the PaspPi would be able to handle more tuners if you had a powered usb hub. I think 4 tuners overload the maximum power output of the Pi USB host.
Hy.I try to aply this tutorial using astrometa dvb-t2/c/t for channel brodcasted over dvb-c in Romania but i got an error when i start scanning for channels.Can you help me getting work?i`m wit rasby but quit familiar wit linux-ubuntu.Thank`s
Hey, great video. In Norway we have two DVB-T based networks with MPEG4 encoding, one for the national broadcasting corporation which is free to watch - and another commercial based one with encrypted channels.. Unfortunately, seems like dvblast only supports MPEG-2... (as stated at videolan's website - or I might be wrong? ) Do you know about any alternative that supports MPEG4 streams?
Most of our channels are MPEG2, but a couple of them are MPEG4 h264 1920x1080 so it definitely works. I don't know how you'd go with encrypted channels though.
Google tells me that libreNMS is just for monitoring. What are you using for routing? I've tried a few solutions including pfsense, but didn't find anything I love. This is largely due to the fact that I want to bind a 4 port nic to use as a switch (not ideal for performance I know, but I'm after a drop-in solution to replace consumer grade routers)
Routing isn't needed for any of this as it's all on the same L2 network. If you did want to jump VLANs you'd need PIM. LibreNMS is just for monitoring, correct. I use a Palo Alto for my routing, but a free, pretty good one is pfsense
Yeah, sorry, the question was a bit of a non sequitur to the video. Was really hoping to find something for my toolbox better than pfsense, but hey, it does the job. Thanks!
I was just wondering what this setup could be useful for? If you own a motel and want to get tv to all the rooms? Also, that tuner just picks up free local hd channels?
This setup isn't for everyone. It could be used for a hotel as you say, or a corporate network to give staff TV on their computers.... as if that would ever be allowed by management!
Any chance you know of a good frontend/smart tv that can join multicast groups? I'd think about something like this for motels in my area if I could either recommend a smart tv or could pop in a hdmi PC stick or something that gave the guests the ability to just sit there and flick channels with their remote - while at the same time if they want to choose netflix instead then they can do that too
The only one in hardware I've used is something made by Amino. That was years ago though. OSMC can view multicast, you just have to make a .strm file with the address in it.
Cheers, doing the maths I'm wondering if it might be easier to just use kodi and tvheadend...means I don't have to make sure multicast works properly across all my switches. With a gigabit backbone I should still be able to serve at least 50 concurrent streams. Or would a unicast system also launch a new thread and tax disk i/o each time the same multiplex is requested?
bit fuzzy on the config files from the other video and this setup - its one tuner per frequency, with the config file specifying the pid for the channel and the multicast group to use, is that correct? so with 3 tuners on the one pi, you are tuning in to 3 different frequencies at once, with all the associated channels being broadcast and you just use vlc to select via multicast group?
thanks for clearing that up :) have you thought about using a more powerful sbc like the orangepi? it might be able to do more tuners at once, and cost less than multiple rpi's?
I have 3 of the Orange Pi's. 3 different types. Not much support but much better specs. I bought them to do a smaller version of this for 7 rooms in the house with screens. I have 2500 DVD's movie and TV collection and they are starting to take up space and weigh a lot. I have my own netflix. I wanted to rip them all to disk so they are easier to manage and find. I haven't gotten very far because there is not a lot of support for the OrPi's.
Hi. I was wondering. Why are using multicast? Wouldn't it be easier to use a TV Server Software like TVheadend, MythTV, VDR, etc..? You can still have multiple Tuners (if you need to), but you can also record and timeshift.
Well, not really. By using the aforementioned TV Servers, you can have multiple simultanous clients on the network watching TV. However, if you only have one tuner, then everyone can only watch the channels on the frequency that the Tuner is tuned into. For a typical Family household, it would make sense to have as many tuners as there are TVs in the House. TV Server apps with support for multiple tuners are usually smart enough to pick the next free tuner if a client wants to tune into a channel that's not already being broadcast.
Multicast is scalable. The Raspberry Pi will only ever serve each channel once. There could be thousands of people viewing the video stream, but no extra work for the TV server. Recording and time shifting is the concern of the viewer. This is just a project, not really something people would use in their home.
Ah ok. I was gonna say, your setup looks exactly like a IPTV setup for an ISP. Total Overkill for the home. But interesting nonetheless. How is it with network bandwidth? Does multicast impact your non-multicast network traffic?
I have it mainly for testing multicast with Wi-Fi... and for fun ;) As for network bandwidth, see this video @ 2:21 ua-cam.com/video/fjDbVIWD8YU/v-deo.html
Though a very neat setup, this is most deff not for every one. Examples are like hotels and businesses that require a set number of channels available to a large number of TV's .. It gets even less useful for those who live in countries that do not support the dvb-t standard. The dvb-t standard allows large channel density on a single frequency. This is pretty much not supported any where in North America. The dvb-t standard is what allows him to view 14 tv channels on 3 single tuner dongles. The entire North American continent uses ATSC which means u get one tv channel per tuner. Instead of the 14 channels you see here it would only get 3 channels with that setup. So to be clear, in countries that do not support dvb-t you would need a tv tunner dongle for each and every tv channel .. one tuner .. one channel ... Nice setup .. Thank You for sharing..
On one frequency, there are usually many tv channels. They each have their own PID, which in turn maps to their own multicast group. One tuner can do one frequency.
When you hooked 3 Tuners There was 14 channels on your screen. Did they all came from those 3 Tuner? I was searching for TV tuners on our Local market that supports encoding multiple channel at the same time, But I failed :(
I see you have more than 1 tv turner inputs, why is one tv turner is not enough? did you buy more than one cable package or do you have to have more than one tv turner. usually one cable serve lots of channel. can you enlighten me?
The antenna / RF cable contains all the transponder frequencies with their respective services - all the channels are there, but you basically need a tuner to use that on a PC. I gather that each raspberry tuner in this setup is tuned to a different channel each and retransmits that on the LAN as a multicast RTP stream so that any PC on the network can receive that (without needing a tuner.) This is a very cool setup, but it seems very highly specialized. If you want to watch TV from a tablet on wifi I guess it's perfect. If you'd like to avoid pulling coax to the different TVs around the house, you could put a "decoder" raspberry on each display for receiving these streams. It seems to me that the setup could also be adapted to have instead of fixed channels, a pool of tuners available for different users on the network. That would allow for all the channels to be available, but would require the client / viewer to have a channel selector front-end add-on to talk back to its designated tuner.
You're right. It's specialised, and I don't think most people would want/need this. I don't even watch TV because it's crap and I have better things to do. I do however need a multicast source to test network stuff. Also, it was fun to build :) All channels are available, which is why I have 6 tuners. There are 6 frequencies, each with a bunch of tv channels in them multiplexed together. I just give them their own multicast group. You can see the details in the first video I did on this.
It's multicast. That's the point of multicast, it can serve infinite users without being a problem for the server. It's only within a LAN, not Internet.
Nope, I don't watch tv at all actually. I just like having a multicast video source handy for when I'm testing network things. ...and it's a fun little project.
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CWNE88 - I love your multicast videos and watched all of the ones you posted. I would love to see a "guide" of sorts, something along the lines of a detailed setup guide. I would love to do this in my own network and it seems you never showed how to actually setup multicast within your network... obviously an issue for you private network, but maybe show us how to do multicast on a small network? TLDR: A multicast setup guide would be an amazing video tutorial!
The thing is, this much multicast traffic isn't really suitable for home networks. I think most people who aren't network engineers don't realise how it can kill a simple network, and those who do understand it would know how to configure a suitable enterprise switch anyway. Also, every switch vendor would have a different set of commands to enable it. I might have to explain multicast more one day, as people may not have seen my previous multicast video where I demonstrated how simple switches flood it like broadcast traffic.
A warning of a traffic flood is more than appropriate for most viewers. While there exist many videos that attempt to explain multicast, the lack of actual multicast setup info is shocking. You have a chance to do something about that.
Valid point. Seems like a great opportunity to help educate those that choose to take the challenge. Why would I look for multicast information that is helpful to me if I didn't want to give it a go? I hope this is not sounding rude, I simply think you would be a great source of credible and useful information.
didnt he just show? maximum of 3 with small glitches, 2 going stable... it is same amount of how many tv-tuner you can attach on it, as on this video. Or do you have TV that shows multiple channels at a time? (well, premium TV's often has PIP and/or 2 tuners to record with one and watch with another)
The problem I had when I made this video was a crappy power supply. When using a solid power supply, the system is absolutely solid with 3 tuners. I've been running that for a while now.
I see the -e parameter for passing epg data to the streams but I don't think you can create epg data on something like kodi from the stream. Not sure what to do.
how can you feed channels from local media, like if I got 6 hours of video (to say something 6 nat geo documentaries) and want it to play in a loop for 24 hours and the next day another setlist an so on?
Don't try this over wifi. Wireless and multicast Do. Not. Get. Along. (unless you have specialized hardware that turns it into unicast -- i.e. the AT&T Uverse wireless stb AP)
Yeah, home Wi-Fi wouldn't stand a chance. If you have a look at one of my other videos at about 3:30 I explain this a bit. ua-cam.com/video/fIg_9wJlQX4/v-deo.html I use Aruba to turn the multicast into unicast Wi-Fi rates which works great.
hello look etoy by aarmar a network like tulla for a rural schoolhouse me prodrias alludar by avor from and mchas thanks I'm new to this or if you got one backup settings and how much it would cost me qe me armes something like you you got armardo there from now thank you very much hope your answer
New playlist with updated videos can now be found here ua-cam.com/video/oV3dCkmcsF0/v-deo.html
Very nice video again! Very interested in the LibreNMS stats you we're showing, is that also something you can run on that Rasberry Pi syslog server you have..?
Which kind of Avermedia Hardware you used? The AVerTV Volar HD PRO? Or a different one? Do you also have a written tutorial?
THIS IS AWESOME!!!
So How many channels per tuner per pi is max?
I gotta do that! :) what are those displays and what software did you use to control them?
great stuff! thanks for this tutorial and greetings from Belgium
Thanks :)
How are you getting the signals to the TV's? Streaming box? Or, are you just watching over the network via computer?
I have 5 tuners (it9135v2) on a powered hub on my raspberry pi 2B. I'm not doing multicast, but using tvheadend. So only the actually watched channels are sent to the switch. I know, there are situations when the multicast is better and in other situations the simulcast is do the work.
4 tuners in a pi2 maybe a power issue?
To get the stream outside of the home would you be able to set up a .m3u file to access them all in a playlist right.
Hi, is a very interesting configuration. But what if I would like to create something similar not with DVB-Tuner but with a Capture device, like for example the AverMedia Live Gamer Portable?
Can you explain it more the rule of default Gateway for having Multicast to work? I'm trying to create multicast network stream with FFmpeg on a Win11 machine the Multicast didn't work but when I send it to the other PC in the network it works.
How cool. I travel a lot and now I think I might be able to watch my home area local TV from my hotel.. Just foe fun. But this could server nicely for Ham Radio.
What kind of USB cable tuner are you using? And is it expensive?
Can you use the same linux software and sets of raspi's to steam a bunch of USB webcams and IP cameras into the steam server ?
Can you share the DVB tuner specs?
this is pretty awesome. Nice job! Sub'd
Mate, would running all of these work on the new Model 3??
what hardware are you using (besides the pi)?
I was thinking something like this for simulateing analog tv signals, to work with a older tv tuner box.
is possible to create a playlist, and to share to my brother in another country?
This is brilliant. Just subscribed as I'd realised I've just watched a bunch of your videos one after the other.
Had some raspberry pi's knocking about for years and never did anything with them. I think I've just found my next project!
Do you use any specific software to act as a client to these streams? Something that will keep things in some sort of order Vs remembering multi cast groups?
Thanks for sharing!
VLC is the best client. Together with the SAP server, you can just click on the announced stream.
Kodi also works if you make a .strm file with the multicast group details.
If I want to start my own iptv service with over 5k channels. Do I actually need a source box for each channel? I mean, 5k channels would require a house full of source boxes. There must be another way around it no?
Hello so you can switch the Tv channels on the Pi using one Tv tuner card?
Cool Vid. Is there a way to instead of putting in the IP address for each channel be able to open an app or something of that nature.
Are you running the IPTV on your ISP internet at home?
Do you have any low cost solution to transmit IPTV from a HDMI cable?
Hi, Wich client should I install in the raspberry client to get the tv signal from the Raspeberry server TV?
how many channels per stick can you stream at the same time?
What about to make fullscreen on tv monitor then use remote to change the channel? I want end user able to change the channel using remote and do you think stiil use vlc as the full screen?
Can this work if you need a cable card to decrypt the data?
Witch OS are you using on you Raspberry Pi? I'd like to use a raspberry Pi with a Dvb-t receiver. I've been using my laptop but I'd like to use a Raspberry instead. The other thing is that I really like the windows media center interface and its simplicity. Thanks
Just Raspbian
Good job!
It's great working but can I make it form av cable?
Cool project
Not sure if it works on the bottom half of the earth but HDHomerun pretty much achieves this in a nice pre-packaged device
on 1 raspberrypi and 1 tuner only one channel is multicast or all channel is multicast ???
Can this setup record to a network disk?
what if i want to capture RCA video (the yellow white and red cable )
Oh and what is the model/brand of the tuner stick?
It is an unbranded RTL-SDR tuner stick.
AVerMedia AVerTV Volar Green, as listed on his part one
I suppose the PaspPi would be able to handle more tuners if you had a powered usb hub. I think 4 tuners overload the maximum power output of the Pi USB host.
That's a good point. He never said anything about that. I wonder...
that what happened it nuke the power out put if you use a power hub it be fine on that may be if it support go with usb 3.0 tunner
6 are no problem with external powered hub. This guy is a bloody noob, he just hit the usb power limit.
Tom78 where is your vlog then?
Hy.I try to aply this tutorial using astrometa dvb-t2/c/t for channel brodcasted over dvb-c in Romania but i got an error when i start scanning for channels.Can you help me getting work?i`m wit rasby but quit familiar wit linux-ubuntu.Thank`s
Hey, great video. In Norway we have two DVB-T based networks with MPEG4 encoding, one for the national broadcasting corporation which is free to watch - and another commercial based one with encrypted channels..
Unfortunately, seems like dvblast only supports MPEG-2... (as stated at videolan's website - or I might be wrong? )
Do you know about any alternative that supports MPEG4 streams?
I use tvheadend with rpi-osmc dist.
Most of our channels are MPEG2, but a couple of them are MPEG4 h264 1920x1080 so it definitely works.
I don't know how you'd go with encrypted channels though.
What about scrambled channels? Is there any solution to descramble them and stream them as normal streams over LAN?
I'm not sure about DVBlast, but MuMuDVB combined with oscam can decrypt channels. It's pretty CPU intensive, though, so I think the rPi will struggle
Google tells me that libreNMS is just for monitoring. What are you using for routing? I've tried a few solutions including pfsense, but didn't find anything I love. This is largely due to the fact that I want to bind a 4 port nic to use as a switch (not ideal for performance I know, but I'm after a drop-in solution to replace consumer grade routers)
Routing isn't needed for any of this as it's all on the same L2 network. If you did want to jump VLANs you'd need PIM.
LibreNMS is just for monitoring, correct.
I use a Palo Alto for my routing, but a free, pretty good one is pfsense
Yeah, sorry, the question was a bit of a non sequitur to the video. Was really hoping to find something for my toolbox better than pfsense, but hey, it does the job. Thanks!
I was just wondering what this setup could be useful for? If you own a motel and want to get tv to all the rooms? Also, that tuner just picks up free local hd channels?
This setup isn't for everyone. It could be used for a hotel as you say, or a corporate network to give staff TV on their computers.... as if that would ever be allowed by management!
what for are you using this setup?
On our university campus we distribute TV over the campus network for the members of the cable TV association.
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COMO LO HACEN AMIGO
Do you work with this stuff in daily work? ... impressive!
I muck around with this stuff daily... does that count? ;)
Quick question, what are you Coax Cables actually attached to? An HDTV Antenna? Or free cable?
A discone on the roof. See here ua-cam.com/video/Y5HeQEjLmwc/v-deo.html
THANKS!
Any chance you know of a good frontend/smart tv that can join multicast groups? I'd think about something like this for motels in my area if I could either recommend a smart tv or could pop in a hdmi PC stick or something that gave the guests the ability to just sit there and flick channels with their remote - while at the same time if they want to choose netflix instead then they can do that too
The only one in hardware I've used is something made by Amino. That was years ago though.
OSMC can view multicast, you just have to make a .strm file with the address in it.
Cheers, doing the maths I'm wondering if it might be easier to just use kodi and tvheadend...means I don't have to make sure multicast works properly across all my switches. With a gigabit backbone I should still be able to serve at least 50 concurrent streams. Or would a unicast system also launch a new thread and tax disk i/o each time the same multiplex is requested?
can i use tbs dvbt 4 tuner?
I was doing all my TV server stuff using tvheadend. Is it possible to record from these servers broadcasting multi channels simulteously?
Sure... press record on VLC :)
CWNE88 lol yes I knew that method mate :) just meant scheduled PVR using pi's
bit fuzzy on the config files from the other video and this setup - its one tuner per frequency, with the config file specifying the pid for the channel and the multicast group to use, is that correct? so with 3 tuners on the one pi, you are tuning in to 3 different frequencies at once, with all the associated channels being broadcast and you just use vlc to select via multicast group?
Correct.
The -a says which tuner to use (ie, /dev/dvb/adapter0 or /dev/dvb/adapter1 and so on.
thanks for clearing that up :)
have you thought about using a more powerful sbc like the orangepi? it might be able to do more tuners at once, and cost less than multiple rpi's?
I have 3 of the Orange Pi's. 3 different types. Not much support but much better specs. I bought them to do a smaller version of this for 7 rooms in the house with screens. I have 2500 DVD's movie and TV collection and they are starting to take up space and weigh a lot. I have my own netflix. I wanted to rip them all to disk so they are easier to manage and find. I haven't gotten very far because there is not a lot of support for the OrPi's.
did you try a larger power supply or the raspberry pi 3?
No, I'm just going to keep running one adapter per Pi.
hmm hopefully you can help me a little.
How to do it with DVB-S2 ? Here just encrypt DVB-T2 Channels.
Hi. I was wondering. Why are using multicast? Wouldn't it be easier to use a TV Server Software like TVheadend, MythTV, VDR, etc..?
You can still have multiple Tuners (if you need to), but you can also record and timeshift.
But then you limit the number of clients.
Well, not really. By using the aforementioned TV Servers, you can have multiple simultanous clients on the network watching TV. However, if you only have one tuner, then everyone can only watch the channels on the frequency that the Tuner is tuned into.
For a typical Family household, it would make sense to have as many tuners as there are TVs in the House.
TV Server apps with support for multiple tuners are usually smart enough to pick the next free tuner if a client wants to tune into a channel that's not already being broadcast.
Multicast is scalable. The Raspberry Pi will only ever serve each channel once. There could be thousands of people viewing the video stream, but no extra work for the TV server.
Recording and time shifting is the concern of the viewer.
This is just a project, not really something people would use in their home.
Ah ok. I was gonna say, your setup looks exactly like a IPTV setup for an ISP. Total Overkill for the home. But interesting nonetheless.
How is it with network bandwidth? Does multicast impact your non-multicast network traffic?
I have it mainly for testing multicast with Wi-Fi... and for fun ;)
As for network bandwidth, see this video @ 2:21 ua-cam.com/video/fjDbVIWD8YU/v-deo.html
Would this work with Satelite? "dvb-t" look liked you are using Terrestrial?
It should, but I've never used dvb-s. The program dvblast has options for it though.
Hi, it is very good thing, but anyone maybe know software which can cut and save to archive tv shows ?
Though a very neat setup, this is most deff not for every one. Examples are like hotels and businesses that require a set number of channels available to a large number of TV's .. It gets even less useful for those who live in countries that do not support the dvb-t standard. The dvb-t standard allows large channel density on a single frequency. This is pretty much not supported any where in North America. The dvb-t standard is what allows him to view 14 tv channels on 3 single tuner dongles. The entire North American continent uses ATSC which means u get one tv channel per tuner. Instead of the 14 channels you see here it would only get 3 channels with that setup. So to be clear, in countries that do not support dvb-t you would need a tv tunner dongle for each and every tv channel .. one tuner .. one channel ... Nice setup .. Thank You for sharing..
Well said
wait I have a question how many channel can be watch at a time with 1 tuner. I am confused.
On one frequency, there are usually many tv channels. They each have their own PID, which in turn maps to their own multicast group. One tuner can do one frequency.
did i understand that right?
the Bottleneck is the pc?
How much Bandwith you need to stream all that channels in the internet?
Thanks for our interest proyect
It doesn't go to the Internet. Each standard def channel is about 4.5Mb/s
Time for a second network or dedicated network for TV. I still prefer using an old pc with 3 x dual tuners
Useful, awesome, elegant, subbed.
Cool. Now, I've just ripped all that out to make a better version of it... once I round up all the parts needed.
Sounds great, man! Can't wait for it.
Very cool
When you hooked 3 Tuners There was 14 channels on your screen. Did they all came from those 3 Tuner? I was searching for TV tuners on our Local market that supports encoding multiple channel at the same time, But I failed :(
It's one tuner per frequency. Each frequency has mulple tv stations multiplexed into them as a complete bitstream.
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I see you have more than 1 tv turner inputs, why is one tv turner is not enough?
did you buy more than one cable package or do you have to have more than one tv turner.
usually one cable serve lots of channel. can you enlighten me?
The antenna / RF cable contains all the transponder frequencies with their respective services - all the channels are there, but you basically need a tuner to use that on a PC. I gather that each raspberry tuner in this setup is tuned to a different channel each and retransmits that on the LAN as a multicast RTP stream so that any PC on the network can receive that (without needing a tuner.)
This is a very cool setup, but it seems very highly specialized. If you want to watch TV from a tablet on wifi I guess it's perfect. If you'd like to avoid pulling coax to the different TVs around the house, you could put a "decoder" raspberry on each display for receiving these streams.
It seems to me that the setup could also be adapted to have instead of fixed channels, a pool of tuners available for different users on the network. That would allow for all the channels to be available, but would require the client / viewer to have a channel selector front-end add-on to talk back to its designated tuner.
You're right. It's specialised, and I don't think most people would want/need this. I don't even watch TV because it's crap and I have better things to do. I do however need a multicast source to test network stuff. Also, it was fun to build :)
All channels are available, which is why I have 6 tuners. There are 6 frequencies, each with a bunch of tv channels in them multiplexed together. I just give them their own multicast group.
You can see the details in the first video I did on this.
Are those adapters from antenna to usb available for US television?
This is for DVB digital tv only. I believe America uses something different, so I can't comment.
This linuxtv site seems to have a comprehensive list of usb devices that would work in the US. www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/ATSC_USB_Devices
What about TOo Zero. Would it be powerful enough?
RPi Zero.
How many users can you have on this server without getting buffering?
It's multicast. That's the point of multicast, it can serve infinite users without being a problem for the server. It's only within a LAN, not Internet.
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How do you get 5 channels with one tuner?
There are more than one channel on each transmitted frequency multiplexed together in the data stream.
So what exactly is the reason you do this (is it to record stuff)
Nope, I don't watch tv at all actually. I just like having a multicast video source handy for when I'm testing network things.
...and it's a fun little project.
If its fun then why not 😂
What is your main use with this?
if you wanna stream online /if you live in a country far away and you wanna see more channels ,install kodi player and tune in .
hello look etoy by aarmar a network like tulla for a rural schoolhouse me prodrias alludar by avor from and mchas thanks I'm new to this or if you got one backup settings and how much it would cost me qe me armes something like you you got armardo there from now thank you very much hope your answer
CWNE88 - I love your multicast videos and watched all of the ones you posted. I would love to see a "guide" of sorts, something along the lines of a detailed setup guide. I would love to do this in my own network and it seems you never showed how to actually setup multicast within your network... obviously an issue for you private network, but maybe show us how to do multicast on a small network?
TLDR: A multicast setup guide would be an amazing video tutorial!
The thing is, this much multicast traffic isn't really suitable for home networks. I think most people who aren't network engineers don't realise how it can kill a simple network, and those who do understand it would know how to configure a suitable enterprise switch anyway.
Also, every switch vendor would have a different set of commands to enable it.
I might have to explain multicast more one day, as people may not have seen my previous multicast video where I demonstrated how simple switches flood it like broadcast traffic.
A warning of a traffic flood is more than appropriate for most viewers. While there exist many videos that attempt to explain multicast, the lack of actual multicast setup info is shocking. You have a chance to do something about that.
That's because home grade switches aren't fit for multicast.
Refer to ua-cam.com/video/fIg_9wJlQX4/v-deo.html
Valid point. Seems like a great opportunity to help educate those that choose to take the challenge. Why would I look for multicast information that is helpful to me if I didn't want to give it a go?
I hope this is not sounding rude, I simply think you would be a great source of credible and useful information.
How many channels can stream per RPi2 ?
didnt he just show? maximum of 3 with small glitches, 2 going stable... it is same amount of how many tv-tuner you can attach on it, as on this video. Or do you have TV that shows multiple channels at a time? (well, premium TV's often has PIP and/or 2 tuners to record with one and watch with another)
The problem I had when I made this video was a crappy power supply. When using a solid power supply, the system is absolutely solid with 3 tuners. I've been running that for a while now.
Anyone you know who tried this with ATSC adapters?
No I don't, but if anyone does I'd love to hear about it
Perhaps if you would go extreme cooling on the pi it would take the 4 tunners no problem .
Nah, power and bandwidth are its issues. It's good for a bit of fun though.
Have you thought about how to get EPG from the datastreams? I tried using epgrab but the xml it outputs is not recognised by kodi and other players
It's on there. See part one :)
I see the -e parameter for passing epg data to the streams but I don't think you can create epg data on something like kodi from the stream. Not sure what to do.
User VLC > Tools > Program guide :)
Alguém conseguiria traduzir pra o Português do Brasil??? Parece muito interessante!
is possible create a m3u channel, use amazon aws and share that channel with your friends?
this is awesome
is this ilegal? can I make for iptvs?
could this be played through kodi?
I have never heard of kodi. I don't actually watch tv. This is just a system to test high bandwidth multicast traffic on networks.
As it possible normal usb tv card.
could have bought a ird for the same rate
one server and many sundtek usb device and everyone cam change the channels
Can the use of these tuners be detected?
What?
I've read that TV receivers can be detected (I have no idea how that might work) and that's how various countries enforce their TV licensing.
MrGeekGamer This is a hoax since around 1938 ...
That's really cool, but why?
The answer is in the question :)
What kind of education did you pursue to learn these trades?
Lots of years in front of a computer doing nerdy things!
CWNE88 Nice! What programming language is this that is used with Pi?
Hi. I need a mentor, I have a business plan to setup an iptv. Could I please get your email or something?
Can you make money from it?
lrz bullys maybe you can take jail broadcasting it
Really good application, but not sure I'd bother going to all that effort just to be able to watch all the crap on broadcast TV!
I'm 100% with you about the crap on tv, which is why I don't watch it.
But sometimes you might need a multicast source for testing things
how can you feed channels from local media, like if I got 6 hours of video (to say something 6 nat geo documentaries) and want it to play in a loop for 24 hours and the next day another setlist an so on?
Don't try this over wifi. Wireless and multicast Do. Not. Get. Along. (unless you have specialized hardware that turns it into unicast -- i.e. the AT&T Uverse wireless stb AP)
Yeah, home Wi-Fi wouldn't stand a chance. If you have a look at one of my other videos at about 3:30 I explain this a bit. ua-cam.com/video/fIg_9wJlQX4/v-deo.html
I use Aruba to turn the multicast into unicast Wi-Fi rates which works great.
suport h.265
you are definitely smarter then Linus but you just lack the character and enthusiasm he has.
How many tuners can a RPi4 handle? Have you tried?
Easily 4 if you have a good power supply
@@TallPaulTech Five at a stretch??? Via an outboard USB hub of course???
2 MHz of RF sampling takes about 35Mb/s of network. It won't take much processor, but power will be your main issue (and possibly RF noise).
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