ErsatzTV is pre-alpha software for configuring and streaming custom live channels using your media library. The software is currently unstable and under active development.

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• Use local media files and optional sidecar NFO metadata; 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 media, metadata and collections

• Jellyfin media, metadata and collections
• Run as a Windows service
• Spots to fill unscheduled gaps

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The easiest way to run ErsatzTV is with Docker:

docker run -d \
  -e TZ=America/Chicago \
  -p 8409:8409 \
  -v /path/to/appdata/config:/root/.local/share/ersatztv \
  -v /path/to/shared/media:/path/to/shared/media:ro \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  jasongdove/ersatztv

After running ErsatzTV for the first time, configure it by visiting the web UI at http://[address]:8409.

The following docker tags are available with software transcoding:

• develop - merges to main branch
• latest - latest release

The following docker tags are available with hardware-accelerated transcoding:

• develop-nvidia - merges to main branch
• develop-vaapi - merges to main branch
• latest-nvidia - latest release
• latest-vaapi - latest release

QSV transcoding has not been tested in docker.

See development documentation.

This project is inspired by pseudotv-plex and the dizquetv fork and is released under the zlib license.