tom80H
December 3, 2023, 10:38am
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There’s already a number of related suggestions addressing these topics… although Plex have stated they’re not pursuing this kind of integration (which isn’t to say this might change at some point).
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 M3U as a tuner type in DVR/Live TV. I have just tried out Emby’s version of this, and it kills Plex dead in my house for live tv.
I want to be able to stream live music to plex, and listen remotely. Similar to what Shoutcast and Icecast do, but I’d feel more comfortable with Plex’s username and password, https
Taken from: STRM support - General Discussions - Plex Forum
@jinxy88 said:
This is a huge huge request for plex developers, please add STRM support back into Plex.
People with huge libraries using gdrive as a source would love this feature.
Emby allready added this feature and its starting to get a lot of attention since it did, because there are scripts that just passthrough the STRM to the client, thus getting rid of transcoding, wasting precious resources, and everything gets direct play…
Basically the ability to emulate the TV watching experience.
eg, Watch TV channels created with your own media (and potentially with online media).
Running a home media server is pretty awesome: beautiful cover art, playlists, and all your media right at your finger tips. One thing media centers fall short on, however, is recreating that feeling of aimlessly channel surfing just to scratch that TV watching itch.
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