script.pseudotv VS ErsatzTV

The other option I've been using as of late has been the PseudoTV plugin for Kodi. The new "PseudoTV Live" plugin for the latest Kodi is more or less dead and the developer's pretty much an ass to work with, but I run a legacy version of Kodi that's been gutted to basically only interface through this plugin.

Something like this in Kodi would work (there are several forks/branches of pseudotv around, so if not the one I linked then find another. I'm really not sure what the state of PseudoTV is these days). You can point Kodi to an SMB share of your files, or you can put your files up into something like Plex and use PlexKodiConnect to integrate with Kodi (or you could use Emby or Jellyfin and the appropriate plugin for each).

hahaha I learned everything I know from /r/Datahoarder, /r/buildapcsales(for the HDDs, currently have 24tb's) and ErsatzTV for the IPTV server.

Greetings, all! I am attempting to set up a fantasy TV station for my friends. Currently, I am using ersatztv for the backend, which provides me with all of the content and channel creation and management. So far I am happy with it because it provides hardware transcoding for the streams on consumer hardware.

Yep, another one is https://ersatztv.org/

Personally, my preferred one is ErsatzTV. It's for a couple of reasons but they mainly come down to not being tied directly to the media server application itself.

ErsatzTV: https://ersatztv.org/ — custom IPTV channels from my media library (e.g., a comedy channel, 1980s movies, etc)

Projects like DizqueTV and https://ersatztv.org/ were created to emulate a HDHomeRun to make “fake live tv” available in Plex’s Live TV interface, using Library content to emulate live TV channels you would pick up over an antenna.

I have a potato (J4105) Plex server and tried DizqueTV, ErsatzTV and Jason's DizqueTV fork very recently. But I couldn't get it stable unfortunately. When one series would work great, another one wouldn't, or even refused to play. Or certain program boundaries made the player crash from time to time. And watermark overlays were another story of it's own.