Lessons Learned: Setting up TVHeadend for live TV streaming in Malta

Posted on by David Vassallo

I recently had the opportunity of setting up a system which captures free-to-air channels and streams them over IP for use by TV set-top boxes such as RaspBMC (or plain old XBMC). We decided on using the excellent TVHeadend. The system was made up of two components: A TVHeadend server. This was simply a desktop … Continue reading Lessons Learned: Setting up TVHeadend for live TV streaming in Malta

Nugget Post: Golang : Gobs and exported identifiers

Posted on by David Vassallo

This one had me scratching my head for a while... while messing around with "gobs" - binary representation of data that can be sent over the network between two golang programs - I ran into the problem of "exported fields". I had followed the post on the golang blog regarding gobs, with some modifications. I … Continue reading Nugget Post: Golang : Gobs and exported identifiers