TVHplayer

A TVheadend client for watching and recording live TV on PC

Features:

With TVHplayer you can:

• Play live TV & radio channels
• Browse EPG
• Schedule recordings
• Initiate instant recordings with custom duration
• Record live TV locally on your computer
• Monitor your server status, signal strength and DVR
• TVHplayer is cross-platform - runs on linux, macOS and Windows

Download

• Head to releases section to download the app for your operating system (Linux, MacOS or Windows)
• Linux users can also install the app from Flathub

Requirements

• Make sure both digest and plane authentication are enabled in your server
• See requirements.txt for requred python modules
• VLC
• FFMPEG (used for local recording feature if you need it)
  • On Windows follow this guide to add ffmpeg to windows PATH. You can also put ffmpeg.exe in the same directory as tvhplayer.

Help and Support

• Refer to the User Guide for more information about using the app.
• If you encounter any problems open a bug report

Run the app from source

• You can run the code directly with python. You may want to do this if you don't want to download an executable. To do this:
• install python
• download the requirements.txt and run this command: pip install -r requirements.txt
• Download the tvhplayer zip file from the latest release and extract to a folder or clone using git: git clone https://github.com/mfat/tvhplayer.git
• cd into the folder
• Run the app with: python3 tvhplayer/tvhplayer.py

Technical information

• TVHplayer uses Tvheadend's http API (no htsp support yet)
• For playback, it uses libvlc

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