Xtream Tuner — turn your IPTV subscription into a full Emby Live TV

[Firestaerter 3]

I've been building a plugin that connects any Xtream-compatible IPTV subscription directly to Emby as a first-class citizen — Live TV with a proper guide, *and* your VOD content as a native movie and series library. Just one DLL, no extra dependencies.

What you get

•   - IPTV movies as a real Emby library — synced as STRM files with full metadata, posters, and ratings matched via TMDB. Emby treats them exactly like local files.
•   - IPTV series with proper episode structure — seasons and episodes organised as Show Name / Season 01 / S01E01, matched against TVDb and TMDB for automatic metadata.
•   - Flexible folder organisation — one flat library, per-category folders, or a fully custom mapping for both movies and series.
•   - Category filtering and name cleaning — pick exactly which content to include, and strip provider tags like |UK| or |FR| from titles automatically.
   

Extra for Dispatcharr users (https://github.com/Dispatcharr/Dispatcharr)

• Fast channel switching — the plugin reads stream stats pre-populated by Streamflow and passes codec and resolution info directly to Emby, suppressing the stream probe entirely. Channels open immediately with no black-screen delay.

• Graceful fallback — if Dispatcharr is unreachable, the plugin automatically falls back to direct Xtream URLs so playback keeps working.
   

Setup

Drop the DLL into your plugins folder, restart Emby, enter your Xtream server URL and credentials, pick your channel categories, and you're done. The plugin handles the rest — initial sync, incremental updates, duplicate detection across categories, and cleanup of removed content.

Updates

The plugin checks for new releases automatically and shows a banner when one is available. There's a beta channel in the config if you want updates earlier.

Releases and docs: https://github.com/firestaerter3/emby-xtream

Happy to answer questions — and if something doesn't work with your provider, bug reports are very welcome.

Edited 6 hours ago by Firestaerter
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[drahmed86 3]

am rlly enjoying using it but dunno how to use streamflow ? is it necessary for all or just live tv ? TIA