SDTV and HDTV support

H264 and MPEG2 video supported. AC-3 and MP2 audio supported.

Input sources

DVB-T, DVB-C and DVB-S.

Multiple adapters are supported. Each adapter can receive all programs available on the currently tuned mux simultaneously.

Output targets

Showtime Mediaplayer (HTSP)

Digital Video Recorder

Built in modern web user interface

Entire application loaded into browser. No page refreshs or slow updates. Based on ExtJS.

Easy to administrate and configure

All setup and configuration is done from the built in web user interface. Even so, all settings are stored in human readable text files.

Fully integrated with HTS Showtime Mediaplayer.

All channel data and their grouping, EPG and TV streaming is conducted over a single TCP connection.

Digital Video Recorder

Built in video recorder stores recorded programs as Matroska (.mkv) files. Multiple simultanious recordings are supported. All original streams (multiple audio tracks, etc) are recorded. Program meta information (title, description, etc) is also stored.

Electronic Program Guide

Imports data from DVB and XMLTV. Searchable from the web user interface. Results can be scheduled for recording with a single click.

Automatic recordings

Create rulesets manually or based on EPG queries that will record all future programs matching the query. Great for recording your favourite TV-show(s).

Easy DVB setup

Tvheadend includes list of all major DVB-T, DVB-C and DVB-S networks around the globe. Just pick your location from a list. Next, it can scan all services and only map those which can be correctly decoded. Avoids having lots of unusable channels in your mediaplayer.

Multi-user support

Grant access to various system features based on username / password and/or IP address.

Software based CSA descrambling

Requires a card server.

Internationalization

All text is encoded in UTF-8 to provide full international support. All major character encodings in DVB is supported.