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> 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
by 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 agoDoes 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 agoPlex 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.