2016-02-23, 11:59
Hi guys
I'm currently planning a new hardware setup for a friend of mine and I would like to get some nice recommendations from you. The aim is to have a stable tv server (tvheadend) which could transcode streams and serve them over vpn or wlan.
Actually he's using a single-user environment by having an ESXI Server (virtualization hypervisor) which is used amongst others as his HTPC (GPU Passthrough) and Ubuntu HomeServer. Our first thought was to passthrough the USB DVB-C Card to the Ubuntu Server and install tvheadend on this VM. Unfortunately we had troubles to get things right (tuner has been properly initialized and recognized but hasn't tuned any channel).
As it might not be a good idea to use a DVB device in a virtualization environment (latency and compatibility issues), we would like to use his TomatoUSB router as proxy for redirecting the DVB Stick. Although it would be possible to install tvheadend directly on the tomato Router, the CPU would probably be a bottleneck when it comes to transcoding. Therefore we would like to have the transcoding workload on the ubuntu-vm, the tv server on the tomato router and Kodi-Clients distributed on HTPC, Android etc.
1. Do you think this plan will work or maybe it's even far too complicated?
2. What kind of software could give me the ability to stream (raw material) from router to an ubuntu-vm? I came across mumudvb (https://github.com/braice/MuMuDVB) but I haven't found a solution yet to use it as a source for tvheadend. Also tvheadend doesn't seem to support cascading tv-servers (so install tvheadend on both, server and router seems not the right way).
Would be grateful for any hints,tips,advices
Best regards
I'm currently planning a new hardware setup for a friend of mine and I would like to get some nice recommendations from you. The aim is to have a stable tv server (tvheadend) which could transcode streams and serve them over vpn or wlan.
Actually he's using a single-user environment by having an ESXI Server (virtualization hypervisor) which is used amongst others as his HTPC (GPU Passthrough) and Ubuntu HomeServer. Our first thought was to passthrough the USB DVB-C Card to the Ubuntu Server and install tvheadend on this VM. Unfortunately we had troubles to get things right (tuner has been properly initialized and recognized but hasn't tuned any channel).
As it might not be a good idea to use a DVB device in a virtualization environment (latency and compatibility issues), we would like to use his TomatoUSB router as proxy for redirecting the DVB Stick. Although it would be possible to install tvheadend directly on the tomato Router, the CPU would probably be a bottleneck when it comes to transcoding. Therefore we would like to have the transcoding workload on the ubuntu-vm, the tv server on the tomato router and Kodi-Clients distributed on HTPC, Android etc.
1. Do you think this plan will work or maybe it's even far too complicated?
2. What kind of software could give me the ability to stream (raw material) from router to an ubuntu-vm? I came across mumudvb (https://github.com/braice/MuMuDVB) but I haven't found a solution yet to use it as a source for tvheadend. Also tvheadend doesn't seem to support cascading tv-servers (so install tvheadend on both, server and router seems not the right way).
Would be grateful for any hints,tips,advices
Best regards
