TVHeadend
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App Version: 653bd040-ls252
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Keywords: tvheadend, livetv, streaming
Train: Community
Home Page: https://tvheadend.org
Keywords: tvheadend, livetv, streaming
Train: Community
Home Page: https://tvheadend.org
TVHeadend Details
Added: 2025-03-24
Last Updated: 2025-04-23
Added: 2025-03-24
Last Updated: 2025-04-23
TVHeadend works as a proxy server, is a TV streaming server and recorder
Run as Context- TVheadend runs as root user.
Group: 0 / root
User: 0 / root
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Host Mounts
- /dev/dvb : Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) device
Security Capabilities
- TVHeadend is able to chown files.
- TVHeadend is able to bypass permission checks.
- TVHeadend is able bypass permission checks for it's sub-processes.
- TVHeadend is able to set group ID for it's sub-processes.
- TVHeadend is able to set user ID for it's sub-processes.
App Metadata (Raw File)
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"url": "https://www.truenas.com/"
}
],
"name": "tvheadend",
"run_as_context": [
{
"description": "TVheadend runs as root user.",
"gid": 0,
"group_name": "root",
"uid": 0,
"user_name": "root"
}
],
"screenshots": [],
"sources": [
"https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-tvheadend"
],
"title": "TVHeadend",
"train": "community",
"version": "1.0.5"
}
}
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