Is there best/preferred IPTV setup?

[ptmuldoon 0]

I'm still new/exploring Emby, just recently setting up LiveTV with my IPTV provider and curious what everyone's thoughts are on the best/preferred setup.

I currently run a Proxmox NAS with most things running in various containers or VMs.  And I have a container running Emby; added my IPTV provider and can watch the LiveTV pretty well with no issues.

But I'm also exploring options,  and have setup containers for both NextPVR and xTeVE, and hope to experiment with TVHeadead later this week.

Is using the 'built in' IPTV with Emby the best way?   Or is it better/preferred to pass in the LiveTV it from NextPVR (Or other) into Emby?

And is it preferred to keep them on separate containers/VMs, or run Emby, NextPVR (or other) all on the same container/VM?   

Does any see any speed or performance improvements one way over another?

Thanks,

PT

[Luke 37116]

Hi @ptmuldoon have you tried using the built-in features?

[Spaceboy 2498]

i have a combination of 2 iptv subs and a 3rd m3u from a local tv server that does nothing but manage the pcie cards.

i would recommend iptvboss to provide emby with a fully curated m3u and xmltv file. emby's built in features are significantly behind the features in that tool. plus it gives you resilience.

[EODCrafter 180]

[redacted]

Edited December 13, 2022 by ebr
Removed link

[samsung2100 21]

8 hours ago, Spaceboy said:

i have a combination of 2 iptv subs and a 3rd m3u from a local tv server that does nothing but manage the pcie cards.

i would recommend iptvboss to provide emby with a fully curated m3u and xmltv file. emby's built in features are significantly behind the features in that tool. plus it gives you resilience.

I use emby epg as it shows all the cover art with a personal text file with my channels works fine. If I was to choose TVheadend or STB-Proxy would be my choices on a dedi pc for channels only and remote into it for editing. Just a mini pc hard wired to your modem is all you need.

Edited December 13, 2022 by samsung2100

[samsung2100 21]

On 14/11/2022 at 19:27, ptmuldoon said:

I'm still new/exploring Emby, just recently setting up LiveTV with my IPTV provider and curious what everyone's thoughts are on the best/preferred setup.

I currently run a Proxmox NAS with most things running in various containers or VMs.  And I have a container running Emby; added my IPTV provider and can watch the LiveTV pretty well with no issues.

But I'm also exploring options,  and have setup containers for both NextPVR and xTeVE, and hope to experiment with TVHeadead later this week.

Is using the 'built in' IPTV with Emby the best way?   Or is it better/preferred to pass in the LiveTV it from NextPVR (Or other) into Emby?

And is it preferred to keep them on separate containers/VMs, or run Emby, NextPVR (or other) all on the same container/VM?   

Does any see any speed or performance improvements one way over another?

Thanks,

PT

https://libreelec.tv/downloads/

Install that on a mini pc with tvheadend and add your channels link to emby.

[Spaceboy 2498]

52 minutes ago, samsung2100 said:

I use emby epg as it shows all the cover art with a personal text file with my channels works fine. If I was to choose TVheadend or STB-Proxy would be my choices on a dedi pc for channels only and remote into it for editing. Just a mini pc hard wired to your modem is all you need.

just a separate pc.

iptvboss can be installed on the same machine as emby and has some critical benefits over your method. the only thing it cant do, which i think tv headend can, is layering of m3u's from multiple sources. but the OP doesnt mention that. and i have full cover art

[EODCrafter 180]

Why would you remove a link to a Github open source proxy that does nothing illegal @Luke? @ebr

Edited December 13, 2022 by EODCrafter

[EODCrafter 180]

8 hours ago, EODCrafter said:

[redacted]

Why? @Luke

Oh wait, that was a Discord invite...Sry.

Edited December 13, 2022 by EODCrafter

[samsung2100 21]

1 hour ago, Spaceboy said:

just a separate pc.

iptvboss can be installed on the same machine as emby and has some critical benefits over your method. the only thing it cant do, which i think tv headend can, is layering of m3u's from multiple sources. but the OP doesnt mention that. and i have full cover art

Sounds cool, I never used iptvboss I manually do everything myself, make and create my own servers right down to my own editing for m3u files adding 4 backup channels from other m3us if one is down it will play the next one in line automatic while showing only 1 channel in guide when there are 4. I'm very picky with my server and how it looks and works

[EODCrafter 180]

54 minutes ago, samsung2100 said:

Sounds cool, I never used iptvboss I manually do everything myself, make and create my own servers right down to my own editing for m3u files adding 4 backup channels from other m3us if one is down it will play the next one in line automatic while showing only 1 channel in guide when there are 4. I'm very picky with my server and how it looks and works

Might as well Direct and Produce your own shows! 

All joking aside, what switches it to next stream if one is down? JC (We've been trying to solve that issue for 8 years now.)

Edited December 13, 2022 by EODCrafter

[samsung2100 21]

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1 CNN

http://cnn.link.1

http://cnn.link.2

http://cnn.link.3

http://cnn.link.4

#EXTINF:-1 TBS

http://tbs.link.1

http://tbs.link.2

http://tbs.link.3

http://tbs.link.4

[EODCrafter 180]

2 minutes ago, samsung2100 said:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1 CNN

http://cnn.link.1

http://cnn.link.2

http://cnn.link.3

http://cnn.link.4

#EXTINF:-1 TBS

http://tbs.link.1

http://tbs.link.2

http://tbs.link.3

http://tbs.link.4

Links in a m3u tells emby to switch to next stream if one is down? I'm gonna have to call bullShi# on that 1.

Edited December 14, 2022 by EODCrafter

[samsung2100 21]

Just now, EODCrafter said:

Links in a m3u tells emby to switch to next stream if one is down?

It switches automatic yes if 1 is down the next will play

[samsung2100 21]

Try it for yourself, put 1 broken link first then a working one under it and play the channel.

[EODCrafter 180]

3 minutes ago, samsung2100 said:

It switches automatic yes if 1 is down the next will play

Did you reprogram Emby?

[EODCrafter 180]

Mine just throws an error and times out. Then I have to manually switch the channel.

[EODCrafter 180]

I do admit, I've never set up a m3u like that. My m3u has 100k channels

[samsung2100 21]

This is a channel from pastebin as a test

 

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-0, CNN
https://tve-live-lln.warnermediacdn.com/hls/live/xxxx/cnngo/cnn_slate/VIDEO_0_3564000.m3u8
https://tve-live-lln.warnermediacdn.com/hls/live/586495/cnngo/cnn_slate/VIDEO_0_3564000.m3u8

 

add that to a txt file, first link is broken second works, load it in emby or vlc player or any tv playing app.

Edited December 14, 2022 by samsung2100

[EODCrafter 180]

Yea, thanks. I'm not gonna mess with my server. It's been running for years. It would be cool if someone could make a program to do that automatically for several Providers/m3u's.

[samsung2100 21]

1 minute ago, EODCrafter said:

Yea, thanks. I'm not gonna mess with my server. It's been running for years. It would be cool if someone could make a program to do that automatically for several Providers/m3u's.

Try it with vlc player and tell me what it does ?

[EODCrafter 180]

3 minutes ago, samsung2100 said:

This is a channel from pastebin as a test

 

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-0,CNN
https://tve-live-lln.warnermediacdn.com/hls/live/xxxx/cnngo/cnn_slate/VIDEO_0_3564000.m3u8
https://tve-live-lln.warnermediacdn.com/hls/live/586495/cnngo/cnn_slate/VIDEO_0_3564000.m3u8

 

add that to a txt file, first link is broken second works, load it in emby or vlc player or any tv playing app.

Won't play anyway....

[EODCrafter 180]

Those cable streams only work on your network. encrypted end to end (https)

Edited December 14, 2022 by EODCrafter

[samsung2100 21]

It works for me, it tries the first link then goes and plays the channel fine with 2nd link.

[EODCrafter 180]

1 minute ago, samsung2100 said:

It works for me, it tries the first link then goes and plays the channel fine with 2nd link.

I believe you, just not practical for 100k streams.