Hi guys, just doing some basic research, thought someone here might be able to help as its a bit of a rabbit hole this one; I am looking at setting up IPTV over IP to DVBT for the likes of motels etc - has anyone had any experience in this realm? Any suggestions on what to look at or google? Obviously IPTV directly over network to individual STBs would be easier, but this is more of a retrofitting question, to see if its worth chasing.
Also, in NZ, obviously it'd have to be legal ip streams - could you stream a few streams, package them into a mux using a server then stream them over a network to dvbt mod, or am i completely looking in the wrong direction?
https://github.com/linuxstb/dvb2dvb
I don't really see a way for that to legally work, all of the legal providers use DRM on their streams which would need to be bypassed to be able to modulate them, legal providers also have completely different packages for commercial establishments.
You could use a providers android/windows app, screen capture the video and re-stream it to get around drm, however i doubt this would stick to their terms.
You could use free online streams (Spike, Adult Swim, Nasa, TV3, Heart music, etc all have free streams), you could also use getflix etc to access BBC and other regional streams (dunno about NZ but it's legal to bypass geo restrictions in AU)
With one of the popular providers in this sub it would be very simple however using the above programs.
Or depending on which TVs you have and how many, if they support an iptv app you could join them all to wifi and connect them to your own tvheadend server. This way if 3 rooms wanted to all watch History channel, you'd only use the internet bandwidth of 1 stream and bypass all of the modulation hardware.