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Why is the IPTV scene such a toxic shit hole? (lemy.lol)

submitted 6 days ago by Yppm@lemy.lol to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I know it's probably because there's money to be made.

I just wish there was a good place to discuss IPTV providers that wasn't full of sketchy resellers over promising and under delivering. You'd think they could at least sort out their EPGs as most I have used are like 80% complete at best.

Not asking for provider recommendations, not sure if that's allowed here. Just wondering if y'all know of a place where that shit can be discussed in a neutral and honest environment?

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[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 3 points 5 days ago

This makes an antenna useless. And the only digital boxes that are allowed are ones that have to be plugged into the TV directly with HDMI. This means you’d have to have an antenna and expensive converter box for EACH TV.

https://shop.silicondust.com/shop/product-category/atsc/?scrollto=663475

Weird that you'd say something like that when it's completely untrue.

I have ATSC 3.0 channels in my plex setup right now...

[-] Banzai51@midwest.social 1 points 5 days ago

Plex doesn't support ATSC 3.0 yet, specifically the audio. So it can't play ATSC 3.0 broadcasts.

[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 2 points 4 days ago

That's an ffmpeg issue. You can manually upgrade ffmpeg to the beta and it works fine. Or you can use an interposer like https://github.com/whichken/hdhr-ac4 to do it without touching plex itself.

So yes it doesn't "support" it properly... but that doesn't mean it's not possible. Nor does that mean your antenna is useless.

[-] Banzai51@midwest.social 1 points 4 days ago

How do you manually upgrade to the beta?

[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 1 points 4 days ago

I'm not going to give you instructions simply because if you don't know what you're doing, you will brick your plex setup. Use the docker container given as a transparent proxy. You won't brick anything that way.