So after going down a new rabbit hole of information on home servers like JELLYFIN have found a tool called DISPATCHARR. From what I gather it will take stream sources and help you stabilize them. Assume lots of different streams can come in from a variety of random sources, and need some serious control and buffer monitoring, plus remapping for EPG information.
Please correct if you understand this different. If this tool exists there must be a lot of serious stream sources issues that need to be corrected and improved. This also helps explain why reliable DVR saving of shows is not allways possible, as streams are very easy to corrupt in connections. It’s not the local software like TIVIMATE that is having issues. It’s the steam source. Speculate? Or true?
I was trying to figure it out also, seems it runs in Docker and I know nothing about docker except I have some issue with it not working on my computer. I am wanting it because my understanding is I can edit TV service playlists.
If you look at the DISCORD group the discussion history is pretty interesting. Seems everyone is happy to use this tool. To make it work in win11 workstation I have to create a docker box, and put this software in there. Else completely convert over to UBUNTU Linux on my server, for a headless server. Know enough about Linux to get in trouble and not sure I want to monkey with it.
Am a cheapskate Alibaba user for service. So my DVR reliability might be better served by finding a one month test provider with better IPTV and two or three streams simultaneously (which I have found maybe). Such a rabbit hole hobby for time. Lol.
Everything is getting more and more aggressive with shutdowns. Can see this all going away in six months with blocking at the major INTERNET PROVIDER level, like YOUTUBE does for video. Pure speculation and rumer on my part.
I installed this in docker on my NAS and I’m very happy with it. If you’re familiar with docker it’s pretty easy to get running. Takes some time to get the channels lined up with epg data and if you use hardware video decoding you have to set up a custom stream profile for ffmpeg in the settings but once you get that going it just works. Their discord is very friendly and helpful as well.
One cool thing is that if you run your tv service through dispatcharr you can play the same feed on multiple tvs and it only counts as one stream.
EDIT: I should also say that I’m running Dispatcharr behind a VPN on my NAS so no issues with privacy and I haven’t noticed any latency. I haven’t tried out the dvr functionality because I just use it for direct streaming but folks on the discord server seem happy with it.