for iptv streams i doubt you'd need some heavy hardware since the streams are already encoded by the provider. if you have 400+ channels, a celeron cpu would probably chug pulling up the list and switching streams. but its not as resource intense as transcoding on the fly.
It's not really a matter of playing the IPTV streams -- that works fine. I run Kodi exclusively on PC these days, and it's the loading of the playlist that chokes it. If you have a nicely pruned playlist, it will work fine. I tend to just throw a huge playlist from the provider on there, with all of the foreign channels I won't watch, and it will just give up on loading it. Probably not that big of a deal for those who curate their playlists. Regardless, Tivimate is simply a better UI experience. Nodecast-TV is a decent experience, as well, but it just needs some server and client-side refinement.
I find that a LOT of iptv streams seems to be geoblocked or otherwise have some sort of restriction preventing them from working. I haven't seen a way to get around that for those streams
did you follow the file naming protocol?
from what i can see its mostly what scrapper site you use and it seems to work best with movies because its simpler then tv shows if it can not find something i search myself i never change the names i want to know the original name because i want to know what file i have. scraping all depends on the file name off the file you download and that can sometimes be different from what name is on the site the scraper uses i defiantly have this happen a lot with the year of the movie that is off a couple years from whats on the site.
you have to autistically rename all the files to the database sites. or use filebot to do it for you.
For some reason you have to add the TVDB plugin to Heyfin manually. That resolved some TV show metadata issues I wrestled with, even though I used Sonarr to organize them.
If it reliably checks for subtitles it's immediately better then Sonarr. Does it check the video file itself for subtitles and if there aren't any it marks it as failed and tries again?
As of now it doesn't check. It downloads and moves whatever wins the sort score regardless of what's inside the file. However I liked that idea, will try to see if that can be implemented and also the quality score system make it more advanced, because right now it is very basic.
I’ve fucked off to Jellyfin land. I do like it but thought about buying the lifetime license to infuse. But they haven’t jacked the price up like Plex
Has anybody ever used these? I've tried a few to create channels but they were pretty basic.
I think Emby's VirtualTV plugin can do 90% of that but I don't know if it'll let you schedule a specific show to play at a certain time. There might be a Jellyfin plugin that can.
wouldnt that require the torrent to list sub info? animetosho scrapes the metafile or whatever and lists the language and subfiles if any.
Then it'd be time to jump to Jellyfin.