Tunarr lets you create live TV channels from media on your Plex/Jellyfin servers, and more. Tunarr was originally a fork of dizqueTV.
Configure your channels, programs, commercials, and settings using the Tunarr web UI.
Watch your channels by adding the spoofed Tunarr HDHomerun tuner to Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby. Or utilize generated M3U files with any 3rd party IPTV player app.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Advanced filtering of Plex libraries, helping to easily find the content you want to schedule.
- Jellyfin / Emby library support.
- Stream your channels directly in the browser
- Complete rewrite of streaming pipeline, offering better stability and improved performance
- New and more powerful scheduling options
- Dark mode.
- Quickly find content you want for your channels with advanced filtering and sorting.
- Scheduled, configurable backups – never lose your channels and configuration.
- Support multiple transcode configurations and set them per-channel.
- Audio language preference support.
- Improved UI for time/random slot scheduling.
- Improved Subtitle support: support for image and text based subtitles. Supports extracting embedded text based subtitles. Configure subtitle preferences (language, subtitle type, etc) per-channel.
- Spoofed HDHR tuner and a IPTV channel list, providing a large amount of flexibility and easing integration with xTeVe or Threadfin and Plex, or the IPTV client of your choice.
- Customize channels with a logo, filler content (“commercials”, music videos, prerolls, channel branding videos) between programming, and more.
- View channel lineups on the web-based TV Guide.
- Support for hardware accelerated transcoding, including Nvidia, VAAPI, QuickSync, and macOS VideoToolbox.
Website: github.com/chrisbenincasa/tunarr
Support:
Developer: Dan Ferguson, Victor Hugo Soliz Kuncar
License: zlib License

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i always wanted to make something like this!!!! now it seems that someone else has done that!!!