Overview: Tuner hardware

Tuner hardware receives television signals and exposes programme data through a supported local or network interface.

A tuner must match the signal and provide a usable route to the server. Network tuners place part of that route on another device; named product families add their own supported interfaces. These pages connect the receiving hardware and its interface to Emby's source path.

  • TV tuners
    A TV tuner and frontend select and recover a compatible broadcast data path, while demultiplexing and media decoding perform later service and picture/audio operations.

  • Network TV tuners
    A network TV tuner performs broadcast acquisition in a separate device and exposes channel/control and media interfaces over a supported local network route.

  • HDHomeRun
    HDHomeRun exposes model-specific broadcast reception through a network source whose channel inventory, stream acquisition and diagnostic fields have separate scopes.

  • Hauppauge tuners
    Hauppauge tuner integration depends on the specific receiving model, region, host driver/application route and exposed service resources.

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