3 ms·

I'm not a user of IPTV services and haven't really heard about it. I found this which lists apps and services that provide IPTV: https://github.com/iptv-org/a

I'm not a user of IPTV services and haven't really heard about it. I found this which lists apps and services that provide IPTV: https://github.com/iptv-org/awesome-iptv https://github.com/iptv-org/awesome-iptv Is that kind of service common in some parts of the world? Do people set up their own IPTV servers to share content? What are the most popular use cases?

diggan 2y ago
From time to time we use it. My wife is from South America but we live in Europe, bunch of channels she wanna watch aren't available legally here so it's the only way.
pzmarzly 2y ago
That list seems to have been cleaned up last year, this is the previous version that contains more providers: https://github.com/iptv-org/awesome-iptv/pull/169/files https://github.com/iptv-org/awesome-iptv/pull/169/files I personally prefer using legal IPTV providers (e.g. https://polbox.tv/en/ https://polbox.tv/en/ for Polish TV, https://ibox.ie https://ibox.ie for UK and Irish, etc), though having to use VPNs for the content I already paid for is getting annoying.
eddieroger 2y ago
Reading through the list of providers on your link, I think the answer is that yes, it's more common in the parts of the world, and those parts aren't necessarily the US.
dewey 2y ago
> Do people set up their own IPTV servers to share content? What are the most popular use cases? Most people I know use it to watch (pirated) sports broadcasts that are either very fragmented (So you'd have to subscribe to 5 providers, which is very expensive) or not available in the geographic location. Personally I use it to watch Sky UK, which isn't available in my location even if I wanted to pay for it. You can self-host an IPTV server with https://ersatztv.org https://ersatztv.org + Plex. I've recently set that up just for fun and there's people running channels with real old ads from their childhood just for nostalgia reasons.
- nirav72 2y ago
  Does plex stream the IPTV content directly to the plex clients running on things like Roku or Apple TV or it only works for the plex browser client?
  - dewey 2y ago
    Plex is just the source for the files that ErsatzTV is using, the encoding / streaming is done by ErsatzTV. You can then use any IPTV app on any platform and paste in your ErsatzTV URL.
ranger_danger 2y ago
Probably not a great idea to link to a bunch of pirated streams. Some of those are official but a lot of them are not.
denysvitali 2y ago
Init7 provides all their TV7 channels via IPTV: https://www.init7.net/en/tv/channels/ https://www.init7.net/en/tv/channels/ You can choose between multicast or HLS. This only works if Init7 is your ISP of course.

diggan 2y ago

From time to time we use it. My wife is from South America but we live in Europe, bunch of channels she wanna watch aren't available legally here so it's the only way.

pzmarzly 2y ago

That list seems to have been cleaned up last year, this is the previous version that contains more providers: https://github.com/iptv-org/awesome-iptv/pull/169/files https://github.com/iptv-org/awesome-iptv/pull/169/files I personally prefer using legal IPTV providers (e.g. https://polbox.tv/en/ https://polbox.tv/en/ for Polish TV, https://ibox.ie https://ibox.ie for UK and Irish, etc), though having to use VPNs for the content I already paid for is getting annoying.

eddieroger 2y ago

Reading through the list of providers on your link, I think the answer is that yes, it's more common in the parts of the world, and those parts aren't necessarily the US.

dewey 2y ago

> Do people set up their own IPTV servers to share content? What are the most popular use cases? Most people I know use it to watch (pirated) sports broadcasts that are either very fragmented (So you'd have to subscribe to 5 providers, which is very expensive) or not available in the geographic location. Personally I use it to watch Sky UK, which isn't available in my location even if I wanted to pay for it. You can self-host an IPTV server with https://ersatztv.org https://ersatztv.org + Plex. I've recently set that up just for fun and there's people running channels with real old ads from their childhood just for nostalgia reasons.

nirav72 2y ago
Does plex stream the IPTV content directly to the plex clients running on things like Roku or Apple TV or it only works for the plex browser client?
- dewey 2y ago
  Plex is just the source for the files that ErsatzTV is using, the encoding / streaming is done by ErsatzTV. You can then use any IPTV app on any platform and paste in your ErsatzTV URL.

ranger_danger 2y ago

Probably not a great idea to link to a bunch of pirated streams. Some of those are official but a lot of them are not.

denysvitali 2y ago

Init7 provides all their TV7 channels via IPTV: https://www.init7.net/en/tv/channels/ https://www.init7.net/en/tv/channels/ You can choose between multicast or HLS. This only works if Init7 is your ISP of course.