TBS Technologies is a company specializing in digital TV tuners, with their catalog includes various DVB-T2, DVB-C, DVB-S2 and ATSC tuner cards. They also happen to be the designer of Matrix board and Matrix 2 Android set-top box, both of which run Android or Linux and support some of the company’s tuners. But they also have higher end products such as MOI Pro AMD IPTV streamer based on an AMD Embedded G-Series processor, and supporting up to 4 tuner cards with up to 4 tuners each.
TBS MOI Pro AMD specifications:
- SoC – AMD GX-412HC quad core processor @ 1.2GHz with AMD Radeon HD GPU @ 300MHz (7W TDP)
- System Memory – 4GB DDR3-1333
- Storage – 30GB mSATA SSD, 1x SATA @ 6.0Gb/s,
- Video Output – 1x HDMI, 1x VGA (reserved connection?)
- Connectivity – 2x Gigabit Ethernet
- Tuners – Up to 4 PCIe TV tuner cards (DVB-S2 or DVB-T2/T/C) for up to 16 TV tuners
- USB – 2x USB 2.0, 2x USB 3.0
- Expansion
- 1 x Full-Size Mini-PCIe (w/USB, PCle x 1 Single)
- 8-bit programmable I/O
- 2x COM headers
- Misc – 1x LPC support TPM module, front panel with LCD display, power switch and various buttons, reset switch, power and HDD LEDs.
- Power Supply – 12 to 18V DC (Built-in)
- Dimensions – SBC: 120 x 100 mm; product: 1U Chassis (430 x 320 x 46 mm)
The system can run Microsoft Windows 7/8, Windows 7/8 embedded Standard, Windows 7 Embedded Compact, or Ubuntu Linux, and according to the specifications comes pre-installed with Tvheadend, VDR, MuMuDVB, DVBlast, szap-s2, dvbdate, dvbscan, dvbdstream, dvbsnoop, scan-s2, szap-s2, tzap-t2, LIRC, telnet, ssh, ftp, samba. The product description also mentions Kodi and OpenPCTV are pre-installed, and I’ve been told OpenELEC runs fine on the system too.
You can read the Getting Started Guide to find how the front panel and keys are used, and checkout the web base configuration interface.
When asked whether the system was mainly purchased by companies or individuals, a company representative explained that both IPTV delivery companies and individuals who wanted to build a home IPTV media server purchased the device, with so far over 25,000 units sold.
TBS MOI Pro AMD can be purchased on buydvd.net with pricing starting at $723.99 with two tuner cards with either four DVB-T2 or eight DVB-T2/C tuners, and up to $1209.99 for a system with 16 DVB-S2 tuners. More information can be found on TBS MOI Pro – AMD product page, as well as on the company’s blog.
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It is also working quite fine in combinations of standards such as S2+C, S2+ATSC or S2+T2
very good product, I’d like a test of this AMD version
What is the use case for this?
well…depends Onebir
for example i use one of these for the following stuffs:
– nas & file server
– web server
– email server
– streaming server local and over internet (to have my channels with me)
– home print server
– torrent box
– steam machine
– central unit management for lights , doors & windows
– surveillance station
…. and few more other stuffs.
All these done with this embedded solution.
Can i use this when i have STB with card? I guess the channels are encrypted since i use the card?
The channels i get through the STB is cable based.
@Fossxplorer
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can i use this one for push stream with custom video bit-rate. because we push stream on a cdn for web.
i want to buy this product , i want some technical informations, can you contact me ?
Can i use this for a 100-room hotel?
What OS does it come with?
I need TBS to stream local tv (DVB-T europe) to my IOS device when I travel abroad.
So, h.264 encoding is necessary in order to preserve bandwidth (actual upload speed around 2megabits/sec)
Thanks guys
@dinpap
The supported OSes are listed in the post, but if you just want to stream to your smartphone that server is overkill.
You could instead get something like U4 Quad Hybrid -> http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/03/25/stream-live-tv-to-your-computer-or-smartphone-with-u4-quad-hybrid-kodi-and-tvheadend/, or a device similar to EyeTV Netstream with a DVB-T tuner -> http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/02/03/eyetv-netstream-streams-free-to-air-digital-tv-to-any-devices-at-home/
@cnxsoft
It is an overkill, but I need h264 transcoding. Does MOI+ or U4 support that? I might need to configure streams as low as 50kbps in some of the countries I will be travelling.
So far I have found only hauppauge broadway does h264 transcoding. HDhomerun extend is not available yet, same applies for netstream.
@dinpap
U4 Quad Hybrid is an HTSP client working with TVheadend, but I have not seen any options for transcoding at the time of my test. So you’d probably right that for your use case it may not work.
The AMD MOI Pro should support transcoding, since the processor is quite powerful, and TVheadend also appears to have options for on-the-fly transcoding that are configurable through the Web UI ->https://tvheadend.readthedocs.io/en/stable/webui/config_streamprofile/
It’s not something I have ever played with myself
@cnxsoft
So it appears that as for now, hauppauge has the only solution for someone who wants h.264 transcoding (not just decoding). I will get one and test it (although it’s a quite old solution)
Thank you for your answers