Many IP TV providers provide a channel list with TS streams defined in an M3U playlist, often with HLS seperation of streams to support multiple bit rates. They also use a groupid tag to place channels into a sutiable categorisation for use in the EPG TV guides. Please consider adding support for …

It would be great to get this in Plex however you can already do this via xteve. https://xteve.de/ I have this working flawlessly

xteve is fine but it requires TV Guide (EPG). Edit: xteve has dummy xTeVe Dummy (EPG) which works perfectly for any kind of m3u playlist. xteve is almost perfect with ffmpeg. I’m currently using it with https://apollotv.online/ which is good provider for m3u playlist.

Some providers offer archives (timeshift, catchup). It needs support as well.

Hello Mark, how were you able to get Apollo working with xTeVe? I’ve tried xTeVe and Telly and both give me the same error message not able to stream. I was told that’s because Apollo uses TS. Please advise on how you were able to play these? Did you need to install ffmpeg? I’m using freenas and hav…

Id love this. And the ability to share TV channels with any user, not just home users

Hello @djczer , as long as you have ffmpeg installed in your machine (where the xteve is installed), the settings for xteve I’m sharing below will work. I’m not sure how to install ffmpeg in a NAS but it might depend on the OS (I suggest try googling it. once you have it, next steps will not be hard)…

I’ve ran xteve but my current provider has a nice guide and keeps everything organized. With xteve everything comes in at channel 1000 and you have to manually adjust channels. This is nice for providers who don’t have good guide data but a pain for those that do. Plus it’s another thing to host. Em…

Will be a great feature to have! For now I’m using xTeve, it’s working pretty well but when compare is less reactive and less fiable (disconnections) than using an app tv on my smartTV. And in more, I don’t have the 450 channels limitation

Just posting so Plex doesn’t think this topic or need has died. :slight_smile: Along with all other varieties in the forums that constantly get removed because they are duplicates (aka customer interest). ~Lifetime Plex User

This needs to happen, IPTV is the future of broadcasting. I mean even the change-resistant BBC are now moving over to IPTV because satellite and OTA are just not sustainable for HD content (Freeview and Freesat are going and are being replaced by the IPTV service called Freely) Plex has a DVR featu…

Support for M3U playlistss in Live TV

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jan_matiasko December 14, 2024, 9:45am 14

+1 here, also same request under different post

hope those people to come here and increase the votes here

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Support for M3U playlistss in Live TV

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