LIVE TV Improvements

[Spaceboy 2493]

Two things that need to be implemented for live tv in order to bring it up to the level of a STB.

 

Where there is no epg for a channel, emby needs to fill this in, such that, for channels without epg you can still get the channel playing without having to go to the channel page (i.e. 2 quick clicks). WMC used to do this by filling in any epg gaps with 24 hour "no data" epg

 

Second where a channel is not broadcasting at the time there needs to be something more elegant than a black screen where you can't tell if the channel is off air or whether emby has a problem. DVBLink does this by playing a 10s no signal video on loop when no signal is being received.

[ebr 14913]

Where there is no epg for a channel, emby needs to fill this in, such that, for channels without epg you can still get the channel playing without having to go to the channel page (i.e. 2 quick clicks). WMC used to do this by filling in any epg gaps with 24 hour "no data" epg

 

That's already there in Android/Fire TV and Roku, right...?

[Luke 37068]

As far as off the air goes I'm not sure there is an elegant way to detect that. Just doing it on the absence of epg data could create a situation of false positives. but yes the no data thing is a good idea.