https://github.com/ErsatzTV/ErsatzTV

Stream custom live channels using your own media
https://github.com/ErsatzTV/ErsatzTV

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Stream custom live channels using your own media

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ErsatzTV/ErsatzTV
• Owner: ErsatzTV
• License: zlib
• Created: 2021-02-09T03:15:10.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-01-16T03:42:24.000Z (3 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-29T18:01:45.585Z (17 days ago)
• Language: C#
• Homepage: https://ersatztv.org/
• Size: 18.3 MB
• Stars: 1,533
• Watchers: 21
• Forks: 61
• Open Issues: 73
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# ErsatzTV

**ErsatzTV** is beta software for configuring and streaming custom live channels using your media library. The software may be unstable and is under active development.

Documentation is available at [ersatztv.org](https://ersatztv.org/).

Want to join the community or have a question? Join us at the [ErsatzTV Community](https://discuss.ersatztv.org/) or on [Discord](https://discord.gg/hHaJm3yGy6).

## Current Features

- Use local media files and optional sidecar [NFO metadata](https://kodi.wiki/view/NFO_files); no need for a full media server

- IPTV server and HDHomeRun emulation support a wide range of client applications

- Channel-specific streaming mode (MPEG-TS or HLS) and transcoding settings

- Collection-based scheduling, with collections containing television shows, seasons, episodes and movies

- Powerful scheduling options such as chronological collection playback throughout the day or over multiple days

- Hardware-accelerated transcoding options (QSV, NVENC, VAAPI)

- [Plex](https://www.plex.tv/) media and metadata

- [Jellyfin](https://jellyfin.org/) media and metadata

- [Emby](https://emby.media/) media and metadata

- Song and music video libraries

- Pre-roll, mid-roll, post-roll filler options

- Subtitle burn-in

## License

This project is inspired by [pseudotv-plex](https://github.com/DEFENDORe/pseudotv) and

the [dizquetv](https://github.com/vexorian/dizquetv) fork and is released under the [zlib license](LICENSE).