Plugin: Fast IPTV M3U

[dcati 7]

I made a faster m3u tuner because was tired of the loading spinner everytime i started up a new m3u iptv channel.

The benefits of this tuner in comparisen with old one

• In memory channel-cache — fetches channels and holds in memory and serves subsequent request instantly untill TTL expires 
• Custom User-Agent & HTTP headers per tuner — bypasses provider blocks/throttling
• Configurable playlist caching — no repeated fetches of large M3U files
• Built-in XMLTV EPG per tuner — no separate listing provider needed
• Stream retries + timeout control — automatic recovery on flaky streams
• Health probe — verifies a stream is reachable before Emby tries to open it
• HLS auto-detection — correct ffmpeg flags without manual configuration
• Radio channels & group-title — proper channel types and grouping in the UI
  
  The build is based on 4.9.3.0 version of emby server and tested on Ubuntu and windows

Emby.FastIptv.dll

[Luke 42623]

Thanks for sharing.

[Chillout 118]

Thanks, Looks like a great improvement.

Do we need to uninstall the old tuner and will it require rebuilding the Channels/tv guide after installing?

Can this be released as an upgrade to the existing tuner in the catalog?

[Luke 42623]

8 minutes ago, Chillout said:

Thanks, Looks like a great improvement.

Do we need to uninstall the old tuner and will it require rebuilding the Channels/tv guide after installing?

Can this be released as an upgrade to the existing tuner in the catalog?

There is the webstreams plugin as an upgrade to the iptv plugin.

[Chillout 118]

5 hours ago, Luke said:

There is the webstreams plugin as an upgrade to the iptv plugin.

Webstreams is a very useful plugin but it is just for VOD content. An improved LiveTV IPTV Tuner with the features mentioned would be a nice improvement.

[dcati 7]

You can just remove the current tuner with your m3u list and add de fastIPTV tuner with same m3u list it should work the same.

If not let me know what to improve..

Edited June 17 by dcati

[Phyrate 0]

Hello, thank you for sharing this. The plugin settings doesn't seem to have vertical scroll bars, my screen is just 1600x900, so I can't scroll to the bottom of the settings page to see all the settings and the save button.

[Phyrate 0]

45 minutes ago, Phyrate said:

Hello, thank you for sharing this. The plugin settings doesn't seem to have vertical scroll bars, my screen is just 1600x900, so I can't scroll to the bottom of the settings page to see all the settings and the save button.

I'm sorry I didn't pay attention to the version it was developed on. I tested in 4.9.5.0, so it seems it doesn't work on latest stable

[dcati 7]

Emby.FastIptv.dll

@Phyrate Added new version with scrollbar!

Edited June 19 by dcati

[GrimEvil 86]

Looks to work fine, only issue I have with it so far is that if I add my guide xml to the plugin nothing populates, but if I add it via the emby normal setup it works fine. I will give the new version ago, as it looks to fix the issue i was going to report

 

[Phyrate 0]

On 6/19/2026 at 7:55 AM, dcati said:

Emby.FastIptv.dll

@Phyrate Added new version with scrollbar!

Thank you! The scroll bars are there now!. I have a question, how do I add local m3u lists? The playlist url field seems to only support URLs and not local windows paths.

[dcati 7]

@PhyrateMade support for local m3u files (file://, or C://), and added some buffer/reconnect adjustment for liveStreams WK related  (version 1.0.3.0)

Emby.FastIptv.dll

[wetz01 0]

@dcatithis is great, I'll keep testing this and see how things go. Will you open source it?