This self-hosted service is intended to act as a middle-man between a front-end TV/DVR service like Plex or Emby, and a back-end tuner emulator, like xTeVe in cases where Plex is unable to play the given raw m3u8 URL.

This service is intended to run as a container and is available as an Docker image.

docker run -d --name=m3u8restreamer -p 11034:11034 ghcr.io/micahmo/m3u8restreamer

To run the container on Unraid, you can use the Docker template from this repository.

In Unraid, navigate to the Docker tab. At the bottom, add https://github.com/micahmo/m3u8restreamer on a new line to the list of template repositories. Save. At the bottom, choose Add Container. From the template dropdown, choose m3u8restreamer. Fill out the rest of the options as desired.

When creating your .m3u playlists (e.g., for use in xTeVe), prefix the stream URL with the name/address of the server where m3u8restreamer is hosted, plus the mapped port (default 11034) followed by getStream, followed by the original URI.

Note: Replace all forward slashes (/) in the original stream URL with %2F.

For example, where the original stream URL is original.stream.com/name.m3u8, your .m3u would look like the following.

#EXTM3U

#EXTINF:-1,CHANNELNAME
https://192.168.1.2:11034/getStream/http:%2F%2Foriginal.stream.com/name.m3u8

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