Live TV m3u proxy

[ozturk 5]

Hello Emby family. 

Would it be possible to stream the Live tv (m3u) over a proxy (vpn) only? So the proxy settings can be implemented only for the Live Tv feature?

 

Edited December 21, 2020 by ozturk

[Spaceboy 2573]

yes this would be great as i currently have to send my iptv links through npvr installed on a second pc which is behind a vpn as i don't want the emby pc to be permenantly behind a vpn. but i shall not hold my breath

[ebr 16182]

What is the actual functionality that is attempting to be achieved by doing this?

[ozturk 5]

Network providers ban iptvs now and again so I'm having to use another android TV box with vpn on it. This way I wouldn't need a secondary device.

[Spaceboy 2573]

yep same - iptv provider is blocked by isp so a vpn is required to use it. its common sense to use a vpn when accessing an iptv server anyway as you never know who is in possession of the server...

[ozturk 5]

Is this something we can expect in the near future?

[kaj 316]

@ozturkwhat server is Emby on? I use a Synology NAS and run Emby's IPTV through my VPN, but remote users connect to Emby via DDNS that doesn't go through the VPN.

[Spaceboy 2573]

2 hours ago, kaj said:

@ozturkwhat server is Emby on? I use a Synology NAS and run Emby's IPTV through my VPN, but remote users connect to Emby via DDNS that doesn't go through the VPN.

Yeah you’re putting everything through the VPN not just the iptv streams.

and no ozturk IMO I don’t think you’ll ever see this in emby

[speechles 2055]

It is to pirate? There is new legislation that can put Emby in courts by masking your streams. This is complicity. There is a reason you have to set most of this up yourself when you want to place content behind a VPN. There are legal ramifications that can implicate Emby as somehow a participant and complicit. In America this would be suicide for a company. Emby is not suicidal.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/22/stimulus-bill-streaming/

Edited December 28, 2020 by speechles

[kaj 316]

2 minutes ago, Spaceboy said:

Yeah you’re putting everything through the VPN not just the iptv streams.

 

Actually, I'm not. I run two DDNS at the same time, the Synology supplied DDNS through the VPN and another DDNS, so I have two external IP addresses. I can therefore select which external address to connect to services from.. At least that's how it works for me

[kaj 316]

17 minutes ago, speechles said:

It is to pirate? There is new legislation that can put Emby in courts by masking your streams. This is complicity. There is a reason you have to set most of this up yourself when you want to place content behind a VPN. There are legal ramifications that can implicate Emby as somehow a participant and complicit. In America this would be suicide for a company. Emby is not suicidal.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/22/stimulus-bill-streaming/

I live in a country with a very restricted and controlled internet. I use a VPN to protect my privacy

[speechles 2055]

6 minutes ago, kaj said:

I live in a country with a very restricted and controlled internet. I use a VPN to protect my privacy

This is to protect our interests. If this is a purely ideological reason such as privacy we are perfectly fine discuss and continue discussion. I was just trying to stop the inevitable questions that always come up with m3u threads. I use a VPN too to prevent censoring. I cannot have freedom of speech without one which is ironic considering my username. I am speechles the last s removed is because of censoring. speechless - s = speechles. I was censored on usenet long ago and moderated to such an extreme that my only choice was to pursue VPN with dynamic IP to regain my voice. This was during the IRC hey days. I still believe in that. Everyone should be free to have an opinion on the internet and not be punished or sought out in real life because of it.

Edited December 28, 2020 by speechles

[Spaceboy 2573]

1 hour ago, kaj said:

Actually, I'm not. I run two DDNS at the same time, the Synology supplied DDNS through the VPN and another DDNS, so I have two external IP addresses. I can therefore select which external address to connect to services from.. At least that's how it works for me

But unless I’m not understanding (quite possible) you’re answering a different question than that being asked. It’s not about incoming connections to an emby server, it’s about how you ensure that outgoing connections from an emby server to an external iptv server get sent over a VPN. 

[Trelane 38]

I know this post is a bit on the old side now,  but I thought I would share.

While integrated support for proxy would defiantly be great.  I was able to accomplish what  the first poster was after using the following free tool :

ji4ozhu/kkcap: The Most Advanced Proxy Client,support to SOCKS5, Shadowsocks 游戏加速器 (github.com)

I had tried other proxy forwarding software,  some use DLL injection (I'm using windows 10) to hijack the requests (privoxy, proxifier, proxychains, etc)  however none of those seemed to work properly with ffmpeg (it must use its own network hooks/stack).   This guys program captures the request at the network level and accomplishes what I was after.

Edited May 23, 2021 by SeanM