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Does anyone have any tips on how to have a good experience with IPTV? So far I've tried 2 (well, maybe it's just 1) IPTV providers and the experience just kinda sucks. Most of the time I can't get channels to load and when I do, it usually takes like 30s-40s to load the channel. I definitely can't reasonably browse channels.

Once a channel loads, it's usually fine.

I'm using dispatcharr + Jellyfin.

My server is plugged in via ethernet, but it does stream over wifi to my TV.

Are there any settings I could change to speed things up? Or is there some way I could auto-remove channels that don't load? Do I need faster internet speeds? Are the only reliable channels US channels? (I'm trying to watch non-US channels.)

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[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

But then you can't easily load the EPG XML as with dispatcharr + Jellyfin

[-] dan@upvote.au 2 points 1 month ago

The IPTV provider should provide the EPG, either as a URL or via "Xtreme Codes" (which is essentially just a base URL for an API that provides both the playlist and the EPG).

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Yeaahh...About that with less than legal streams lol.

Most japanese EPGs are, well, japanese.
So I put a translation script inbetween that translates every programm title and description daily....Works as well as you can expect from a free google translate call.

[-] dan@upvote.au 1 points 1 month ago

Nice! That's a great idea.

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