IPTV time delay compensation possible?

[bruor 43]

IPTV streams set up via an M3U tuner are behind reality by 2-3 minutes, is there any way to make Emby aware that the stream is behind reality so that behavior like recording and popping up the UI during playback as it transitions to the next show are in alignment with the actual stream? 

[Luke 42078]

@bruorare you able to set tvg-shift values in your m3u? Emby Server supports this.

[bruor 43]

My issue is an offset measured in minutes, tvg-shift only seems to be by the hour. 

Edited February 28, 2025 by bruor

[Luke 42078]

We could probably update that to support a decimal. Then  you could use that? For example 0.25 hours.

[bruor 43]

Or perhaps make it default to hours if numeric but understand the concept of "3m" as 3 mins?

[Luke 42078]

I think as a starting point supporting the decimal makes the most sense. I will push that update out to the m3u plugin. Thanks.

[Carlo 4561]

On 2/28/2025 at 4:58 PM, Luke said:

I think as a starting point supporting the decimal makes the most sense. I will push that update out to the m3u plugin. Thanks.

That would mean a person would have to add/modify tvg-shift for each entry and use a non-spec value.

Would it not be better to have a tuner setup configuration to adjust the stream delay in minutes that's applied to all streams imported?
It's really more of a pre/post timing adjustment to normalize start/stop times before the pre/post recording adjustments are made.

[Luke 42078]

It was a quick fix for him since I know he creates his own m3u.