IPTV users. Ever use ffmpeg to convert streams to play in a browser?

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.

I haven't listened to this yet, but it's in my que.

IPTor's IPTV has a viewer built into the site when you create your list. I've only used it once just to check that it works.

i usually only pick up IPTV for football season and major UFC events but i 'turned it on' again as part of testing this integration and i'm completely BAFFLED how people are still willing to spend over $100 for ad-rot television.

i am absolutely stunned in 2026 with ads consuming what feels like 50% of every programming block, how 'cable and satellite tv' get away with charging people $150+ for the privilege of sitting through ads you can't skip.

its as alien as someone telling me they still pay for long distance calling or limited to 100 text messages a month.

i haven't had commercial tv in 2 decades and its simply not something i have the patience for anymore. i don't see how anyone can stand to watch tv like that.

wait for a season of show X to end, grab the season from a torrent site; binge watch ad-free.

i have amazon prime and couldn't stand to sit through the first episode of the Expanse with all the interruptions so sue me for grabbing a nice 4K copy without commercials.

illegal? yeah but i have no room in life at my age to sit through a show with 3 minutes of ads every 10 minutes.

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Of just pipe your Xtream account through dispatcharr and vod2strm plugin and then your plex/jellyfin already has your custom live tv lineup and every show and movie imaginable, all automated.

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i had IPT IPTV running for about 10 minutes in Plex using threadfin and i will go out on a limb and say it SUCKED.

did it work? kinda. could i dvr stuff? kinda. did it lag and half the time the channel streams would cough and die 10 minutes into a football game? YES

so i killed that integration (for now) and my appetite for an IPTV program guide integrated into my media server is pretty low right now.

i'm absolutely sure if i gave it another go using AI this time my experience would be completely different.

my favorite use of AI? its a cheat-sheet for me having to learn how to do 117 different things each time i want to add another command-line based integration or docker app.