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IPTVSmarters ... if that's the classic auth shit everyone sells
Or VLC.
//ah, wait... you said in browser... sorry.
Use Claude/Codex/Kimi to reverse engineer the app?
Why not using android emulator?
Vibe code it
Here: https://github.com/AGSQ11/minitv
You can upload it on any shared hosting plan. Heck, you can even use it with jsfiddle or https://jsitor.com/embed/8P9kloiBkH (click on the browser tab above)
you can manually add m3u's in https://github.com/dispatcharr/dispatcharr & share
This might be a good place to ask. Is there anything that you can just give it an IPTV stream URL and have it download everything? Maybe split into hour long chunks so you can watch programs later at your own convenience.
Was mostly thinking for 8-24 hour delays, but actually keeping up to a weeks worth would be good for randomly browsing stuff.
TVHeadend has a recording function. I'm not sure it can split things up like you're describing, but it can record at scheduled times.
What’s wrong with scripted ffmpeg?
One way to get banned quickly by your IPTV provider
Check out this list: https://github.com/iptv-org/awesome-iptv/discussions/categories/players?discussions_q=is:open+category:Players+label:Web
I've not actually tried to watch live IPTV, because it's technically illegal for me to do so (as I don't have a UK TV licence). Hence, why I wanted to download and store foreign TV on a foreign server, leave for some time (and 8 hours is good to shift programs to sensible times) as then they wouldn't count as being live and so I wouldn't need a TV licence.
But anyway, I hadn't realised you could just use ffmpeg to download and save, although it does seem obvious now you mention it.
I hadn't actually considered that. I assumed there'd be many people who just leave it their IPTV streaming on one channel all day long.
Sonarr for shows you know about, Plex and YouTube for finding random shit.
Oh for sure, some boomer out there just leaving it on in each room as they rotate thru packs of darts (my grandpa)
I am surprised anyone cares about TV licenses enough to find workarounds like that but also doesn't care enough to just get one. Don't they cost less than a server?
Offers on LET for cloud servers (as per rules) are less than or equal to $10/month. Therefore, to answer your question, they don't cost less than a server.
https://github.com/dispatcharr/dispatcharr is great
Watching recorded TV content may also fall into a legal gray area if it is not expressly permitted under the licensing terms or local law.
I already have a bunch of VPS (also several of mine are in the $5-7/y region. In the UK the TV license costs more than netflix without ads.
But actually, it's not so much the cost that's the issue, it's that I fundamentally disagree with the principle of the TV licence and don't want to tacitly support it by buying one. In the UK, it's massively overreaching - you need to pay the BBC £180/y ($243) for the privilege of watching anything at all, regardless of channel or method of distribution, if it is "at the same time" (within 60 minutes) of being broadcast on a mainstream TV station anywhere in the world.
At the moment, pretty much the only safe haven for avoiding the TV licence is youtube and other strictly on-demand streaming services. The BBC has started streaming their own junk on youtube, but currently it doesn't show up unless you actively seek it out (and it's clearly marked as live) and is lobbying the government to force youtube to promote their live channels at the top of everyone's feed - and if you were to then click it by accident, you'd then require a TV licence. They're getting increasingly desperate to force people to buy a TV licence by deceptive means, because more and more people are rejecting the TV licence and switching to streaming platforms instead. Households having a TV licence has gone from around 99% in the 90s to around 90% a decade ago and around 80% now.
Apart from when I was staying in an airbnb recently, and my friends insisted on having the TV on (honest verdict - it was terrible), I haven't watched live TV in the UK since I got rid of my TV licence 7 years ago. Before that, I had a TV licence, but the only live TV I watched was Formula 1, so the only real change was a shift of consumption from recorded at time of broadcast to watching on stream-on-demand. Almost nothing I watched was from the UK anyway.
Sonarr seems to be just for torrents unless I'm misunderstanding their wiki.
Yeah, YouTube is my main source of video entertainment at the moment.
Yeah, good point. Maybe I'll just stick to what's on youtube.
That's what surprises me: that someone doesn't want to pay for a TV license, but wants to use obscure legal loopholes instead of just pirating it. Of course, if you pirated it, you wouldn't be allowed to talk about it on this forum and we wouldn't be having this conversation, so maybe there's some selection bias there.
Sounds like you're at the very start of your sailing, there is more to world now than just torrents
I went on the wiki for sonarr, which seems to be the source of documentation, and it all seemed to be about torrents.
FWIW I made a conscious choice not to use torrents years ago, no plan to change that now.
Yeah, I mean I try to follow the law as much as possible. In order to not have a TV licence in the UK you actually have to sign a declaration every year, so I particularly don't want to contravene those laws.
Technically, I guess watching time-shifted content from another country may not be permissible to watch non-domestically under their copyright, but that seems a lesser issue, and they do have channels that they'll happily stream globally (and others that are region locked by IP), so I think it's probably OK and intended for their diaspora to watch.
But it is a low priority thing I guess - I first thought of this loophole about 3 years ago, and I still haven't got around to implementing it, because there is plenty of content in the language I want to practice in on youtube, so maybe I'll just stick to doing that.
Yeah so fair. Torrenting is really good, private trackers do require some attention especially when required to maintain a ratio. Usenet just makes more sense for my usecase.
Oh, actually, I meant to include usenet / NZB stuff in with trackers as I had seen it. I used to be into usenet 20 years ago before I got a job where my income relied on copyright and resolving the hypocrisy of my own moral double standards made me adopt a firm stance against copyright infringement. That's why I'd be OK with time-shifting IPTV because the rights holders are willing to let foreigners watch it live, so I don't see a difference between that and up to a day later, but I'd not be willing to torrent something I could get legally elsewhere just to avoid paying for it.
That's a separate issue to objecting to having to pay the BBC for the right to watch something they had zero involvement in just because it happens to be being broadcast at the same time on the other side of the world. It's the only broadcaster in the UK who benefits from this £3.9 billion revenue, and they claim they couldn't exist without it, while all the other broadcasters manage just fine without seeing a penny of the license fee. I think the BBC funding model is outdated and should cease to exist.
Free tv?
Any recommendations for a good reliable IPTV service please?
Have never used one before, so please guide.
Netflix.