having issues setting up Live TV

[emby.5irnv@slmail.me 1]

i am attempting to use the live tv (IPTV) feature functionality of emby. I have added  both .m3u files and URLs into the Live Tv submenu. no matter how include them they do not show up within the live tv section of the player. adding the files/URLs does add the "live TV" section to the player, but there are no channels within it. I have installed the IPTV plugin as a workaround, and the same URLs work,  but its interface is not as clean, nor does it appear to offer guide support nor support for files. i think these are the most relevent bits of code but i have attached the whole log file as well

2025-06-14 22:02:24.604 Info Server: http/1.1 Response 500 to host4. Time: 304ms. POST http://192.168.0.239:8096/emby/LiveTv/TunerHosts?X-Emby-Client=Emby Web&X-Emby-Device-Name=Chrome Windows&X-Emby-Device-Id=9838b713-b475-400e-ae64-2c82fd09358d&X-Emby-Client-Version=4.8.8.0&X-Emby-Token=x_secret3_x&X-Emby-Language=en-us&reqformat=json
2025-06-14 22:02:47.240 Info Server: http/1.1 POST http://192.168.0.239:8096/emby/LiveTv/TunerHosts?X-Emby-Client=Emby Web&X-Emby-Device-Name=Chrome Windows&X-Emby-Device-Id=9838b713-b475-400e-ae64-2c82fd09358d&X-Emby-Client-Version=4.8.8.0&X-Emby-Token=x_secret3_x&X-Emby-Language=en-us&reqformat=json. UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
2025-06-14 22:02:47.241 Info HttpClient: GET http://cfd-v4-service-channel-stitcher-use1-1.prd.pluto.tv/x_path16_x/x_path17_x/x_path10_x/x_path18_x/x_path19_x?appName=web&appVersion=unknown&clientTime=0&deviceDNT=0&deviceId=6c263252-30d3-11ef-9cf5-e9ddff8ff496&deviceMake=Chrome&deviceModel=web&deviceType=web&deviceVersion=unknown&includeExtendedEvents=false&serverSideAds=false&sid=7c57f1f3-2078-4f92-a4b5-6cd444220a70
2025-06-14 22:02:47.391 Info TaskManager: Queueing task RefreshChannelsScheduledTask
2025-06-14 22:02:47.391 Info Server: http/1.1 Response 200 to host4. Time: 151ms. POST http://192.168.0.239:8096/emby/LiveTv/TunerHosts?X-Emby-Client=Emby Web&X-Emby-Device-Name=Chrome Windows&X-Emby-Device-Id=9838b713-b475-400e-ae64-2c82fd09358d&X-Emby-Client-Version=4.8.8.0&X-Emby-Token=x_secret3_x&X-Emby-Language=en-us&reqformat=json
2025-06-14 22:02:47.391 Info TaskManager: Executing Refresh Guide
2025-06-14 22:02:47.392 Info HttpClient: GET https://30a-tv.com/x_path13_x/x_path14_x/x_path15_x
2025-06-14 22:02:48.561 Info HttpClient: GET http://cfd-v4-service-channel-stitcher-use1-1.prd.pluto.tv/x_path16_x/x_path17_x/x_path10_x/x_path18_x/x_path19_x?appName=web&appVersion=unknown&clientTime=0&deviceDNT=0&deviceId=6c263252-30d3-11ef-9cf5-e9ddff8ff496&deviceMake=Chrome&deviceModel=web&deviceType=web&deviceVersion=unknown&includeExtendedEvents=false&serverSideAds=false&sid=7c57f1f3-2078-4f92-a4b5-6cd444220a70
2025-06-14 22:02:48.767 Info HttpClient: GET http://cfd-v4-service-channel-stitcher-use1-1.prd.pluto.tv/x_path16_x/x_path17_x/x_path10_x/x_path18_x/x_path19_x?appName=web&appVersion=unknown&clientTime=0&deviceDNT=0&deviceId=6c263252-30d3-11ef-9cf5-e9ddff8ff496&deviceMake=Chrome&deviceModel=web&deviceType=web&deviceVersion=unknown&includeExtendedEvents=false&serverSideAds=false&sid=7c57f1f3-2078-4f92-a4b5-6cd444220a70
2025-06-14 22:02:48.896 Info LiveTvManager: Refreshing guide with 7 days of guide data
2025-06-14 22:02:48.897 Info TaskManager: Refresh Guide Completed after 0 minute(s) and 1 seconds
2025-06-14 22:03:12.954 Info App: Sqlite: 284 - automatic index on LastWatchedEpisodes(SeriesPresentationUniqueKey)
2025-06-14 22:03:13.199 Info App: Sqlite: 284 - automatic index on LastWatchedEpisodes(AlbumId)
2025-06-14 22:03:13.496 Info HttpClient: GET https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/posters/77466-1.jpg
2025-06-14 22:06:41.038 Error PortMapper: Error in GetSpecificMappingAsync

 

embyserver.txt

[seanbuff 1315]

28 minutes ago, emby.5irnv@slmail.me said:

no matter how include them they do not show up within the live tv section of the player. adding the files/URLs does add the "live TV" section to the player, but there are no channels within it.

Obvious question, but do you have an active Emby Premiere subscription? Live TV / DVR is a Premiere feature only.

[emby.5irnv@slmail.me 1]

16 minutes ago, seanbuff said:

Obvious question, but do you have an active Emby Premiere subscription?

i bought the lifetime subscription. which is active on my account.

[Luke 42077]

Hi, have you checked the contents of your m3u? Does it have any channels?

[emby.5irnv@slmail.me 1]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

Hi, have you checked the contents of your m3u? Does it have any channels?

i do not know how to check if there is more than one channel contained in the stream. i do know that if i take the m3u url or file and place/paste it into a program such as the iptv plugin for emby or use the streaming option for vlc, i receive a video signal of some kind. these are free m3us and there is no mention of multiple channels, so i assume that the ones i have tried they only have 1 channel. 

[Apotropaic 41]

41 minutes ago, emby.5irnv@slmail.me said:

i do not know how to check if there is more than one channel contained in the stream. i do know that if i take the m3u url or file and place/paste it into a program such as the iptv plugin for emby or use the streaming option for vlc, i receive a video signal of some kind. these are free m3us and there is no mention of multiple channels, so i assume that the ones i have tried they only have 1 channel. 

I think what Luke is saying is if you download and edit the M3U file with an editor such as notepad (on windows) can you see correctly formatted channel URLs?

Also it’s not clear if you have multiple M3Us each for a channel, or if your one M3U is meant to contain multiple channels?

One thing I would try is running the ‘Refresh Guide’ scheduled task after adding the M3U playlist. I find this is what makes them available on the server.

[emby.5irnv@slmail.me 1]

4 hours ago, Apotropaic said:

can you see correctly formatted channel URLs?

i have no idea what its supposed to look like. i see text dictating format, codec,  and bandwith followed by a url that ends in .m3u8

 

4 hours ago, Apotropaic said:

multiple M3Us each for a channel

this one.

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try is running the ‘Refresh Guide’ scheduled task

didnt help

Edited June 16, 2025 by emby.5irnv@slmail.me
forgot to reply to a specific part of the post.

[Luke 42077]

What are the contents of your m3u?

[emby.5irnv@slmail.me 1]

24 minutes ago, Luke said:

What are the contents of your m3u?

 

[Luke 42077]

2 hours ago, emby.5irnv@slmail.me said:

 

OK, that is a single stream, not a channel listing m3u. The m3u that you import needs to be a channel listing. For example, it would look like this:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="123" tvg-id="123" tvg-name="Example Channel" tvg-logo="https://example.com/logo.png", Example Channel
http://example.com:8080/live/stream1.m3u8
#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="456" tvg-id="456" tvg-name="Another Channel" tvg-logo="https://example.com/another_logo.png", Another Channel
http://example.com:8080/live/stream2.m3u8

If you just want to import a single video url, the iptv plugin can do that for you.