M3U source and channel numbering?

Jeff Kalchik

Good morning, all. I'm a new user of tvHeadEnd, it's getting set up to pull in multicast video streams from my ISP. Unfortunately, as my ISP isn't horribly forthcoming with an M3U source, I've had to roll my own with some network inspection. tvHeadEnd will be feeding into Plex, with a tvhProxy in the middle. Is there any way in the M3U file that I feed to the Network configuration (IPTV Automatic Network,) that I can specify channel numbering for the created muxes? I have tvHeadEnd supplying non-zero channel numbers, but it would be particularly nice in the Plex configuration if the returned channel numbers matched the EPG there. I do have the streaming integration working between Plex and tvHeadEnd, but the configuration with a couple of hundred channels is rather difficult.

4.3-1553~gbdc2ae9-dirty (built locally.)
CentOS7

IPTV Automatic Network

I dug around in src/misc/m3u.c for a few minutes, and nothing leaped out at me as being quite what I'm looking for.

If this has been answered somewhere, feel free to point me in that direction (and abuse me horribly or as necessary....)

mpmc

I'm going to assume you are going to use xmltv data for EPG? If so you can enable "Channel numbers (heuristic)" (xmltv grabber option in tvh grabber modules) along with "Update channel number" (in EPG Grabber).

You just need to supply your own xmltv data with the channel number in the channel name.

Jeff Kalchik

Well, no. Not XMLTV data at the moment. I'm actually planning on not utilizing the EPG in tvHeadEnd at all. tvHeadEnd is used to join a local multicast group and return a stream to Plex. Plex will send a request through tvhProxy to begin sending a particular stream to get that to happen, and Plex has a pretty comprehensive EPG on its own.

I have a pile of raw data that I spin through to write a local .m3u file. As such I have complete control over how that's generated.

I'll dive into XMLTV when I get home. Thanks.