Import VOD M3U in Emby

[Jacmog 0]

Hello everyone, 

I am new to Emby. I bought an Emby premiere couple of days ago as I would like to use IPTV with my Emby server. I successfully set up the live tv (even though I am still struggling with setting up the EPG for Italian channels - any suggestions?) and it is all working fine. My IPTV provider has also a VOD M3U. I looked here at the forum and I found a way to manage to convert M3U to STRM. The strm has all the folders listed correctly right but no files/content of my VOD. I did some testing adding the file folder system to my emby library but it is just a matryoshka of empty folders (correctly named though). Can anyone help me? 

[Luke 38880]

Hi, this is what your strm files should look like:

https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159147-strm-files

So if you're going to generate them with a tool, then I would suggest making sure they end up looking like that. Please let us know if this helps. Thanks.

[Jacmog 0]

Hello, 

thanks for your prompt reply. I am a bit lost here, I believe. I did a create a text file and renamed as suggested. I imported a folder with the strm file within the library but it says playback error. Is there any other way then generate them? I do have the main VOD m3u and not one for each file...

[Luke 38880]

Maybe the url is bad? Let's look at an example:

Thanks.

[TvDamn 1]

Hello ,

 

https://erdesigns.eu/app/tools/m3u-to-strm

 

I use this site and it works perfectly for me. You will ahave a zip file with all strm of your movies. Just add it in a library and everything will be ok.

But click the option original name to allow emby to find correct metadata

[sundevil67 23]

That site used to be where I went, but haven't been able to find one like it. I'd really like to refresh my movie list but I can't seem to figure out how to make this "simple" script work. Anyone able to provide a pointer or two, I'd love to hear some... I have some familiarity with PHP, but I'm lost as far as where to point to the m3u file.

[sundevil67 23]

On 2/19/2022 at 11:48 PM, TvDamn said:

Hello ,

 

https://erdesigns.eu/app/tools/m3u-to-strm

 

I use this site and it works perfectly for me. You will ahave a zip file with all strm of your movies. Just add it in a library and everything will be ok.

But click the option original name to allow emby to find correct metadata

Any chance you've stumbled upon another site that has an online conversion tool like this? I know I could probably accomplish it with MacOS Automator, or a Python script, but that stuff is just over my head & I don't have time to mess with it. I just need to find some kind of tool that'll extract STRM files from my M3U file.