This is a IPTV for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR).

Written by:                  R o l f . A h r e n b e r g @ s c i . f i
                             A n t t i . S e p p a l a @ 

Project's homepage:          http://www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/iptv/

Latest version available at: http://www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/iptv/

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
See the file COPYING for more information.

Requirements:

IPTV patched VDR-1.5.9+ and multicast IPTV transport streams

Description:

This plugin integrates multicast IPTV transport streams seamlessly into
VDR. You can use any IPTV channel like any other normal DVB channel for
live viewing, recording, ...

Installation:

cd /put/your/path/here/VDR/PLUGINS/src
tar -xzf /put/your/path/here/vdr-iptv-X.Y.Z.tgz
ln -s iptv-X.Y.Z iptv
cd /put/your/path/here/VDR
patch -p1 < PLUGINS/src/iptv/patches/vdr-1.5.x-iptv.patch
cp sources.conf /path/to/vdrconf/
make
make plugins
./vdr -P iptv

Channels.conf examples:

TV1;IPTV:1:IPTV|UDP|192.168.0.1|1234:P:27500:512:650:2321:0:17:8438:4097:0
         ^ ^    ^   ^           ^    ^
         | |    |   |           |    Source type ("P")
         | |    |   |           IP Port Number
         | |    |   IP Address / Location
         | |    Protocol ("UDP", "HTTP", "FILE")
         | Plugin ID ("IPTV")
         Unique enumeration

TV2;IPTV:2:IPTV|HTTP|127.0.0.1/TS/2|8080:P:27500:513:660:2321:0:33:8438:4097:0
TV3;IPTV:3:IPTV|FILE|/media/video.ts|0:P:27500:514:670:2321:0:81:8438:4097:0

Example UDP multicast configuration for iptables firewall:

  # Multicast UDP -packets
  iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp -d 224.0.0.0/4 --dport 1234 -j ACCEPT

  # IGMP required by multicasts
  iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p igmp -d 224.0.0.0/4 -j ACCEPT