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IPTV users. Ever use ffmpeg to convert streams to play in a browser?
Posted on 5/16/26 at 7:16 am
Posted on 5/16/26 at 7:16 am
This is related to my HA project. I want to move beyond the YouTube pane in my display because Google makes it so God awful hard to use and constantly changes shite to ensure what should be a simple iframe is as miserable as possible.
Anyway my provider doesn't support m3u8 files and the direct URLs for the channels will work in VLC but not browsers.
So it appears there's a little trick where you use ffmpeg to convert the stream into a local m3u8 file which can then be picked up and played in a browser.
In theory this seems pretty straightforward, when you change the channel the m3u8 gets replaced by the current stream and it's not very cpu intensive so it can run on my server when I'm using the iptv display.
I'm right in the middle of this but thought id ask this esteemed group if anyone has done this before and how fragile of a setup is this?
I'm wanting something to replace ShitTube that's more reliable and not make things worse
Anyway my provider doesn't support m3u8 files and the direct URLs for the channels will work in VLC but not browsers.
So it appears there's a little trick where you use ffmpeg to convert the stream into a local m3u8 file which can then be picked up and played in a browser.
In theory this seems pretty straightforward, when you change the channel the m3u8 gets replaced by the current stream and it's not very cpu intensive so it can run on my server when I'm using the iptv display.
I'm right in the middle of this but thought id ask this esteemed group if anyone has done this before and how fragile of a setup is this?
I'm wanting something to replace ShitTube that's more reliable and not make things worse
This post was edited on 5/16/26 at 7:20 am
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Posted on 5/16/26 at 8:59 am to CAD703X
Piggybacking off of this
I’m paying about $150 for MMedia and using TiviMate as my app.
Whats everyone else using?
I’m paying about $150 for MMedia and using TiviMate as my app.
Whats everyone else using?
Posted on 5/16/26 at 6:39 pm to CAD703X
The formats are just wrappers. Use dispatcharr to proxy. Its default light ffmpeg profile unwraps streams for about any browser without using much compute at all.
Bonus: wrap dispatcharr behind gluetun and get a fully private entry point while all your content is open and accessible from your proxy to plex/jelly/home assistant, tivimate, whatever. Only downside is your media server will have to transcode to reach external clients but that’s still way better than exposing your links that include passwords.
Bonus: wrap dispatcharr behind gluetun and get a fully private entry point while all your content is open and accessible from your proxy to plex/jelly/home assistant, tivimate, whatever. Only downside is your media server will have to transcode to reach external clients but that’s still way better than exposing your links that include passwords.
This post was edited on 5/17/26 at 1:40 pm
Posted on 5/16/26 at 9:59 pm to VermilionTiger
What is MMedia?
Posted on 5/17/26 at 8:34 am to CAD703X
I haven't listened to this yet, but it's in my que.
Posted on 5/17/26 at 12:16 pm to AaronDeTiger
4 hours 18 minutes 
gonna tell AI to watch it for me and summarize
gonna tell AI to watch it for me and summarize
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