How can I speedup channel change time?

[Uncle_Frank 12]

OK so I just need to do this, I need to do a video of a firestick I bought for $20 compared to $410 junk tv box. I'm Canadian our prices are different so this is a $20 firestick video coming up shortly 

You guys decide and do the math on what runs better ? 

Edited September 20 by Uncle_Frank

[Uncle_Frank 12]

$20 VS $410

[Uncle_Frank 12]

But this is what the boys n girls are wanting   super fast 

[denz 513]

We can only dream of this speed

[CharlesF 39]

On 11/12/2022 at 6:06 PM, softworkz said:

Not now, but a future update will make channel switching almost instant for IPTV and comparable to a hardware TV for native tuner reception.

and by future he means at some unknown point in the very distant futures

[denz 513]

4 years and nothing to show for it

[arrbee99 1887]

Started testing in May 2020 far as I can see. Impressive, no ?

[daldana 139]

Well, Spotlight and slideshow fixes are much more important, didn't you know? 

[Uncle_Frank 12]

On 9/21/2026 at 10:18 PM, daldana said:

Well, Spotlight and slideshow fixes are much more important, didn't you know? 

For me it is I rather have the spotlight  stuff than faster live tv   But I am not a fan of live cable channels I like on demand no ad every 5 minutes but emby lets you add the epg for the channels you do want even if it loads it a bit slower emby looks better than tivimate unless you have a full epg with logos and for on demand have all your cover art with meta data which you can do yourself hours n hours manually doing it but is doable with Xtreme UI which is free but most people have no idea how to use or even install it. Emby is the best for this in the end everyone comes back to it I know I always do I think emby will need to redo the entire live tv section from scratch to get it to instant load and the tags would not exist if people wanted to be able to simply press up and down and change channels instant emby may have no choice. In the end users pay their bills so time will tell.

[Uncle_Frank 12]

On 9/21/2026 at 10:18 PM, daldana said:

Well, Spotlight and slideshow fixes are much more important, didn't you know? 

Is it just the speed you want ? if it's just the speed you want and want everything under one roof I have a solution that can solve everyone's needs without emby devs needing to even touch how the live tv is currently and it would make all users happy.

Devs would need to have an export feature, export emby to an m3u allowing people to run emby on tivimate including the emby epg guide this way everyone wins !

The 25 device limit would then run on that m3u as well on users watching emby on tivimate.

I would watch emby on tivimate it would be 100% better and the reason is there would be no emby blank movie covers because I have my meta data and everything how I like.

Emby community would grow because you would be able to watch emby on 3rd party apps with ease.

Imagine the freedom of watching emby on anything that supports an m3u.

What if a family member also uses emby you could join a few emby servers together like plex does all under one roof.

This would be a game changer in every way allowing us full control of our media on any device or app giving us complete freedom.

You would need to have the m3u have the username and password of the emby user in the m3u but also have the emby server let us set the amount of connections that can be used on that users name so if they had a max of 2 connections if they used a 3rd it would not work.

[Uncle_Frank 12]

Also not to sound like a jerk BUT I would put this as a monthly fee of like $5.99 or something even for lifetime members calling it Emby Plus if you use the m3u it's a monthly payment for everyone. It's business and this would be well worth the money imo for sure I would pay it just to have all my media in one place yessir !

I would pay $15 a month for something like this who am I kidding !

[Uncle_Frank 12]

If I'm not mistaken is most of the work already good to go for something like this by using the emby api ? only real thing left would be exporting live channels with epg to m3u with user limit of course. I'm currently testing this with the older emby and it works flawless using the api with it

Edited 3 minutes ago by Uncle_Frank