How to Add M3U TV Live Streaming to Jellyfin

Publish: 2020-03-08 | Modify: 2020-03-08

The previous article "CentOS 7 Installation of Jellyfin Media Player" shared the method of installing Jellyfin media player on CentOS 7. This article continues to share the method of adding M3U TV live streaming to Jellyfin. Students who need it can refer to it.

Finding Live Streaming Sources

Before adding TV live streaming, we need to obtain the live streaming sources. This article introduces M3U live streaming, so we need to find M3U live streaming sources, usually with the .m3u extension. Here are two places for your reference, please explore them yourself.

Here, Xiaoz provides a channels.m3u for everyone to test. It is not guaranteed to be available everywhere, and it may also become invalid after a period of time. Download the channels.m3u and upload it to your server.

Adding Tuner Devices

Open the Jellyfin Console - Live TV - Add Tuner Device, you can see two options: "HD Homerun" and "M3U Tuner". Xiaoz hasn't studied HD Homerun, so it won't be discussed here. Let's mainly introduce M3U Tuner and select M3U Tuner for adding.

  • Tuner Type: Select "M3U Tuner"
  • File or URL: Select the full path of channels.m3u

Leave the rest as default and save. It should look like the following.

Testing TV Live Streaming

Go to the Jellyfin homepage - Select Live TV

Switch to the Channels option, and you can see that Jellyfin has recognized the channels in the M3U source, as shown in the following image.

Choose a channel to play and test. If it can play normally, it means it's okay. If it can't play, it may be because the live streaming source is no longer available, and you need to find another valid M3U live streaming source.

Summary

  • M3U live streaming sources can be found on "Gaoqing Fan" or "Enshan Forum"
  • After adding M3U live streaming sources to Jellyfin, switch to "Channels" in "Live TV" to see them
  • If it cannot play, it may be because the live streaming source is no longer available, and you need to find another valid live streaming source.
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