C:\{userid}\appdata\roaming\embyserver\programdata\cache

[HappyGilmour 7]

Good morning,

I am working on manually matching up thousands of IPTV channels to a free EPG source. I don’t actually mind doing the work. But I am finding that the temp and xmltv folders fill up with GB’s of data when I am doing the matching (maybe it happens even if I’m not doing the matching….don’t know because I’m usually working on matching.) 

This actually resulted in filling up the drive once already and left 0 bytes free on my system volume. Can someone tell me why this is happening and how I can manage it (besides logging in every day and clearing the files from those folders?) Thank you!

 

Don

[Carlo 4552]

@HappyGilmour

Hello,

While it's true some providers have tens of thousands of channels from around the world including tons of FAST channels, 24/7 channels, music, listening channels, hundreds to thousands of event/sport channels rarely used, VOD movies & shows, as well of course as channels in languages you don't speak or from countries that don't add value.

My first question is why keep these large lists of channels that make navigating the EPG and finding quality content much harder for most users?
Do you need the same network channels from 3, 5, 10 or more countries?

If you edit your m3u playlist to remove these types of channels, you'll find your EPG much easier to use as well as making it much easier to work with the channel lists in Emby LiveTV setup. Additional benefits include: less temp/drive space used, manual channel mapping becomes far easier, all TV related ops from searching to guide refresh/updates will be more responsive as well.

Besides what's mentioned above, you need to free up storage space and have a good reserve of space available. Emby does require working space to function, especially transcoding for example, not to mention recording of TV content. You can manually adjust a transcode working directory as well as default recording directories, but the drive always needs to have available space to allow Emby saving configuration files and especially its database files!

Carlo

 

[Luke 39987]

Hi, we are looking into improving this. Thanks for the feedback.

[HappyGilmour 7]

27 minutes ago, Carlo said:

@HappyGilmour

Hello,

While it's true some providers have tens of thousands of channels from around the world including tons of FAST channels, 24/7 channels, music, listening channels, hundreds to thousands of event/sport channels rarely used, VOD movies & shows, as well of course as channels in languages you don't speak or from countries that don't add value.

My first question is why keep these large lists of channels that make navigating the EPG and finding quality content much harder for most users?
Do you need the same network channels from 3, 5, 10 or more countries?

If you edit your m3u playlist to remove these types of channels, you'll find your EPG much easier to use as well as making it much easier to work with the channel lists in Emby LiveTV setup. Additional benefits include: less temp/drive space used, manual channel mapping becomes far easier, all TV related ops from searching to guide refresh/updates will be more responsive as well.

Besides what's mentioned above, you need to free up storage space and have a good reserve of space available. Emby does require working space to function, especially transcoding for example, not to mention recording of TV content. You can manually adjust a transcode working directory as well as default recording directories, but the drive always needs to have available space to allow Emby saving configuration files and especially its database files!

Carlo

 

Thank you for taking the time to write all of that up for me. Here is what I don't understand. I know I can go through and uncheck the channels I don't want in the EMBY interface. But I don't get how I would edit the M3U file? Isn't Emby just going to download a new M3U file the next day and overwrite any changes I make to the one that is there now?

Also, there are definitely channels I can get rid of. But I like almost all of the 24/7 and VOD channels. And while they do not have any guide data they do have their content specified in the channel description. That is why it is essential that Emby download the new M3U file every day.

Any clarification you can provide on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

 

[HappyGilmour 7]

@Carlo Sorry I should have @'d you on my reply. Please see above.

[Luke 39987]

@HappyGilmour

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But I don't get how I would edit the M3U file? Isn't Emby just going to download a new M3U file the next day and overwrite any changes I make to the one that is there now?

This would mean you'd have to download the m3u to a local file, then point the server  to that file rather than the m3u url. This also means it would become your responsibility to manually keep that file up to date with changes from the original url.

[HappyGilmour 7]

1 minute ago, Luke said:

@HappyGilmour

This would mean you'd have to download the m3u to a local file, then point the server  to that file rather than the m3u url. This also means it would become your responsibility to manually keep that file up to date with changes from the original url.

Understood. I also see there are some pay services that will allow you to make changes to the M3U...and then the service keeps recreating the changes every time the new file is downloaded from the provider....and you download the M3U from the service. Something to think about. Thank you.

[Carlo 4552]

On 3/19/2025 at 5:45 PM, Elon_Musk said:

MONEY $$$   Just like running an Xtreme UI install on ubuntu, what's the reason ? Money $$$. People need to pay rent bro

What does this have to do with trimming back and customizing the channels you use?

On 3/19/2025 at 2:48 PM, HappyGilmour said:

Thank you for taking the time to write all of that up for me. Here is what I don't understand. I know I can go through and uncheck the channels I don't want in the EMBY interface. But I don't get how I would edit the M3U file? Isn't Emby just going to download a new M3U file the next day and overwrite any changes I make to the one that is there now?

Also, there are definitely channels I can get rid of. But I like almost all of the 24/7 and VOD channels. And while they do not have any guide data they do have their content specified in the channel description. That is why it is essential that Emby download the new M3U file every day.

Any clarification you can provide on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

 

6 hours ago, HappyGilmour said:

Understood. I also see there are some pay services that will allow you to make changes to the M3U...and then the service keeps recreating the changes every time the new file is downloaded from the provider....and you download the M3U from the service. Something to think about. Thank you.

I'm sending you a PM about you m3u/service.
With a bit more information specific to your setup, I can likely give you a few useful tips and suggestions for how to process and use the info in the m3u file.

Carlo