Is there best/preferred IPTV setup?

[samsung2100 21]

3 minutes ago, EODCrafter said:

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

It is a link from pastebin, it will work on anyones computer.

[samsung2100 21]

2 minutes ago, EODCrafter said:

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

I only have a couple hundred channels, I would not load 100k channels in my emby. I only use what I need.

[EODCrafter 180]

2 minutes ago, samsung2100 said:

It is a link from pastebin, it will work on anyones computer.

Yea, the 2nd one played and I said I believe, but it's not practical for my setup.

[EODCrafter 180]

Just now, samsung2100 said:

I only have a couple hundred channels, I would not load 100k channels in my emby. I only use what I need.

Most are VOD Netflix Disney + ect

[EODCrafter 180]

My Granddaughter always wants the latest Disney Movie or Netflix Series.

[samsung2100 21]

1 minute ago, EODCrafter said:

Yea, the 2nd one played and I said I believe, but it's not practical for my setup.

Your setup is not practical for anyone Having an m3u with 100 thousand channels is a bit much my friend.

[samsung2100 21]

1 minute ago, EODCrafter said:

My Granddaughter always wants the latest Disney Movie or Netflix Series.

I hear ya man

[EODCrafter 180]

3 minutes ago, samsung2100 said:

Your setup is not practical for anyone Having an m3u with 100 thousand channels is a bit much my friend.

Worked for me for years....

[EODCrafter 180]

It would be nice if Emby separated it like TiviMate does.

[samsung2100 21]

1 minute ago, EODCrafter said:

It would be nice if Emby separated it like TiviMate does.

The movie section on tivimate looks good but the tv series looks not so good.

[EODCrafter 180]

1 minute ago, samsung2100 said:

The movie section on tivimate looks good but the tv series looks not so good.

Hmmm, never noticed a difference. I'm sure it varies with Provider.

[EODCrafter 180]

I mainly just use the search feature, then click play.

[samsung2100 21]

1 minute ago, EODCrafter said:

Hmmm, never noticed a difference. I'm sure it varies with Provider.

No it does not, go take a look, tv series on tivimate not so great my friend.

[EODCrafter 180]

Just now, samsung2100 said:

No it does not, go take a look, tv series on tivimate not so great my friend.

You have had every Provider?

[EODCrafter 180]

Tivimate just goes off the m3u you input into it.

[samsung2100 21]

23 minutes ago, EODCrafter said:

You have had every Provider?

It has to do with tivimate and how they choose to sort their vod tv series, go ask them to update it and also ask them to allow me to port my emby collection through it

[samsung2100 21]

I played around with tivimate today, added a recording path to external HD and even tried on usb it sucks. Only thing going for it is speed changing channels is it, guide don't even have images like emby does, emby guide looks better than tivimate does. Tivimate just feels cheap Switching groups is easier better but honestly who wants to scan through 500 groups looking for something in my language to watch damn. Sure I can spend hours going through deleting loads of junk I don't need want but my setup is perfect now I have couple hundred channels I don't need use tags just have my own channels I want in a simple text file.

I'm fussy, I like quality I like stable I like something for my entire family even my old ass family members can use emby with zero pc skills on a fire tv stick All my family is on emby and they all cancelled there over priced shit tv on cable satellite.

@EODCrafter you can kiss my ass for making me waste all this time on tivimate testing it out today Wasted time

Edited December 15, 2022 by samsung2100

[samsung2100 21]

Also get your Granddaughter a netflix and disney subscription you cheap ass

[EODCrafter 180]

10 hours ago, samsung2100 said:

Also get your Granddaughter a netflix and disney subscription you cheap ass

She has it on her phone...that's just for over here couple hours a week.

[CharlieMurphy 73]

@samsung2100

You're saying that with an m3u with multiple links for a channel, Emby will go down the list until it finds a working link. Once Emby has chosen a link, will it fail over to another link if the one it was streaming times out?

I also had no idea Emby could handle multiple links for one channel.

[EODCrafter 180]

18 hours ago, CharlieMurphy said:

@samsung2100

You're saying that with an m3u with multiple links for a channel, Emby will go down the list until it finds a working link. Once Emby has chosen a link, will it fail over to another link if the one it was streaming times out?

I also had no idea Emby could handle multiple links for one channel.

VLC will do it but he says Emby will. I'm skeptical.... but I have no desire to test this by creating a custom m3u with 1000's of channels. Not going down that rabbit hole  When Emby errors out on a channel, it just errors out, there is no recovery logic that I know of to "try the Next channel" in the m3u.

Any thoughts @cayars?

Edited December 16, 2022 by EODCrafter

[BillOatman 502]

23 hours ago, CharlieMurphy said:

@samsung2100

You're saying that with an m3u with multiple links for a channel, Emby will go down the list until it finds a working link. Once Emby has chosen a link, will it fail over to another link if the one it was streaming times out?

I also had no idea Emby could handle multiple links for one channel.

Last I heard that was "on the list" for future enhancements, but I do not believe it does that now.

[Carlo 4330]

On 12/15/2022 at 1:32 PM, CharlieMurphy said:

@samsung2100

You're saying that with an m3u with multiple links for a channel, Emby will go down the list until it finds a working link. Once Emby has chosen a link, will it fail over to another link if the one it was streaming times out?

I also had no idea Emby could handle multiple links for one channel.

On 12/16/2022 at 7:40 AM, EODCrafter said:

VLC will do it but he says Emby will. I'm skeptical.... but I have no desire to test this by creating a custom m3u with 1000's of channels. Not going down that rabbit hole  When Emby errors out on a channel, it just errors out, there is no recovery logic that I know of to "try the Next channel" in the m3u.

Any thoughts @cayars?

I think this depends on what you're referring to.  The m3u file containing all the different channels will drop all but one version of the channel so it won't happen here.

If the entry in the master m3u file points to another m3u file vs a channel stream, then that m3u file could contain multiple versions of the channel.  This is typically done to have different resolution/bitrate versions used for ABR.  I know Emby chooses the highest bitrate version to start with and works it's way down the list.

How useful this would be I'm not sure because it's not like having 2 different streams from different providers, but multiple versions of the same stream done in real-time.  So likely if the providers stream goes down there won't be any version.

Many providers will give you multiple different versions of a channel SD, HD, UHD but they are delivered as different channel entries in the main m3u file.  If they instead setup m3u files for each channel with all the different entries in the channel m3u file it would work pretty well I'd imagine. 

Carlo

[EODCrafter 180]

2 hours ago, cayars said:

So likely if the providers stream goes down there won't be any version.

I don't think I understand your explanation at all perhaps because this statement is not what is being used. It is using the same channels from Multiple Providers, not different resolutions or Versions of the same stream. He spelled it out pretty clear in his "mock" m3u.

Perhaps this is why "Live TV" (iptv) in Emby has take years to fix.

 

2 hours ago, cayars said:

The m3u file containing all the different channels will drop all but one version of the channel so it won't happen here.

I think this closes the debate......

Edited December 19, 2022 by EODCrafter

[EODCrafter 180]

On 12/13/2022 at 5:58 PM, 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

See above @cayarsfor "mock m3u"