HLS / XMLTV Home broadcasting

HLS / XMLTV Home broadcasting is a home broadcasting system, it leverages FFMPEG & Nginx to broadcast your own do it yourself channels 24 hours a day across a home network

A M3U is auto generated from the FFMPEG HLS (M3U8) outputs A XMLTV is generated by probing the video files for their duration using FFPROBE, with this info it extrapolates and writes a valid matching XMLTV file

These M3U and XMLTV files are supported popular systems: I personally run it on TiviMate and a Enimga2 Box, but it will run on much much more

Major Features Include:

• Querys TVMAZE to get episode descriptions etc...
• Randomizing Episodes
• Randomized Idents - The channel stays in order but "Idents" are injected between the episodes to recreate the channel surfing experience
• Metadata & Probe Info Caching System

Important:

a TMPFS in the NGINX web directory is required to run this effectively

to quickly setup a ram disk:

$ mount -t tmpfs -o size=512m tmpfs /var/www/html/streams

to make it automatic when linux boots edit the /etc/fstab with something like this:

$ tmpfs       /var/www/html/streams tmpfs   nodev,nosuid,noexec,nodiratime,size=512M   0 0

Important 2:

Video files on the same channel all have to be the same format,

If yours don't,

I Recommend FFmpeg Batch AV Converter

here is the parameters i use to match 4:3 & 16:9 content in one go

-c:v libx264 -crf 23 -vf "scale=1280:720:force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease,pad=1280:720:(ow-iw)/2:(oh-ih)/2" -c:a aac -b:a 128K -ar 48K -ac 2

Requirements

• BASH
• NGINX
• FFMPEG / FFPROBE
• PYTHON
• JQ (LINUX PACKAGE - needed to query TV_MAZE, will still run without it but it will fallback to just filenames)

Setup

• Make sure all the required software mentioned above are installed
• Clone the repository into your machine
• Edit the config file with your installations info
• Add your channel playlists to concat_files directory (see example for formating)
• Run cron.sh to launch all channels (gives pretty output)

This Is Alpha Software so expect occational bugs

For the Curious this is what it looks like when setup on TiviMate

License

• GNU GPL v3
• Copyright 2010-2020

Docker Versions

Confusingly they both have the same name but they have different approches:

HLS-XMLTV-Docker

My personal docker version, matches development machine and pulls master branch, image is about 125mb

HLS-XMLTV-Docker

Created by chasx003, it has a fixed version and had its variables rewritten to docker variables, image is about 157mb