This is an IPTV plugin for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR). Written by: Rolf Ahrenberg < R o l f . A h r e n b e r g @ s c i . f i > Antti Seppälä 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 version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation. See the file COPYING for more information. Requirements: An IPTV patched VDR-1.5.10 (or later) setup and DVB compatible MPEG1/2 network video 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, etc. The plugin also features full section filtering capabilities which allow for example EIT information to be extracted from the incoming stream. Currently the IPTV plugin supports both multicast UDP/RTP and unicast HTTP MPEG1/2 transport streams. Also a file input method is supported, but a file delay must be selected individually to prevent VDR's transfer buffer over/underflow. Therefore the file input should be considered as a testing feature only. 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-X.Y.Z-pluginparam.patch cp sources.conf /path/to/vdrconf/ make make plugins ./vdr -P iptv Setup menu: - TS buffer size [MB] = 2 Defines ringbuffer size for transport stream in MB. Valid range: 1...4 - TS buffer prefill ratio [%] = 0 Defines prefill ratio for transport stream ringbuffer before data is transferred to VDR. The valid range: 0...40 - Use section filtering = 1 Defines whether section filtering shall be used. Valid range: 0...1 - Scan Sid automatically = 1 Defines whether service id shall be scanned automatically. Requires section filtering. Valid range: 0...1 - Disable filters = 0 Certain section filters might cause some unwanted behaviour to VDR such as time being falsely synchronized etc. This option allows creation of blacklists of ill-behaving filters. If this option is set to a non-zero value, the menu page will contain that many "Disable filter" options which allow you to disable the individual section filters. Valid range: 0...7 - [Red:Channels] Opens IPTV channel editor. - [Blue:Info] Opens IPTV information/statistics menu. Channel editor menu: - Because of the different nature and content the VDR channel editor is not best suited for editing of IPTV channels. Therefore an alternative editor is provided which allows more IPTV centric editing of channel information. An IPTV channel editor is accessible via "Setup -> Plugins -> IPTV" and pressing the Red button. The channel editor is functionally similar to VDR's built-in channel editor. Information menu: - [Red:General] Opens the general information page. - [Green:Pids] Opens the pid statistics page. - [Yellow:Filters] Opens the section filter statistics page. - [Blue:Bits/bytes] Toggles between bits and bytes mode. Configuration: - channels.conf TV3;IPTV:3:IPTV|FILE|/media/video.ts|5:P:0:514:670:2321:0:3:0:0:0 TV2;IPTV:2:IPTV|HTTP|127.0.0.1/TS/2|3000:P:0:513:660:2321:0:2:0:0:0 TV1;IPTV:1:IPTV|UDP|127.0.0.1|1234:P:0:512:650:2321:0:1:0:0:0 ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ | | | | | Source type ("P") | | | | IP Port Number or File delay (ms) | | | IP Address or File Location | | Protocol ("UDP", "HTTP", "FILE") | Plugin ID ("IPTV") Unique enumeration - UDP multicast rules 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 Notes: - Working EIT requires correct Nid/Tid/Sid values as the NIT filter cannot determine the type (satellite/cable/terrestrial) of the IPTV transport stream. - The following section filters are recommended to be disabled: "NIT (0x40)", "SDT (0x42)", "TDT (0x70)" Acknowledgements: - The IPTV section filtering code is derived from Linux kernel.