M3U Tuners

How to add and configure an M3U Tuner

Emby Live TV supports setting up M3U files as TV Tuners. Each M3U file will contain a list of channels, along with information such as channel name, id, and how to play the channel.

To add an M3U tuner, simply open the Emby Server dashboard, navigate to Live TV Setup and click Add TV Source

Then select M3U

On the M3U Tuner setup screen, Emby will accept either:

• A file path to an M3U file
• A URL to an M3U file that can be downloaded

The following M3U properties are supported:

• tvg-name - Channel name
• tvg-id - Channel unique ID
• tvg-chno - Channel number
• tvg-shift - Number of hours to shift the EPG (only used as needed)
• tvg-group - Group the channel belongs to for group management of the guide. These groups will be imported as tags by Emby for use in parental filtering as well.

If any are missing, Emby will attempt to automatically detect the information using whatever tags are available.

The setup page will have the following options available. Leaving the Referer http header and user agent http header fields blank will result in Emby Server's default values being used.

There is a choice of using a Guide Data source or the m3u for channel images.

Example M3U

#EXTM3U

#EXTINF:10.000000,TVG-ID="Channel1" tvg-name="Channel 1" tvg-logo="http://example.com/channel1.png" group-title="Entertainment",Channel 1
http://example.com/stream1.ts

#EXTINF:10.000000,TVG-ID="Channel2" tvg-name="Channel 2" tvg-logo="http://example.com/channel2.png" group-title="Entertainment",Channel 2
http://example.com/stream2.ts