Emulates a HDHomeRun device while streaming from M3U IPTV streams.
Add localhost:8080 as a DVR tuner in Plex.
As of now, Plex does accept TS streams, meaning this code is far too complex for what it's worth.
Please check out a much simpler implementation such as telly instead: https://github.com/tombowditch/telly
./muxyProxy http://site.com/my-iptv-playlist.m3u8
Plex currently does not support IPTV directly, only using network tuners such as a HDHomeRun. tvhProxy is cumbersome because it requires a tvheadend installation, resulting in extra latency. Ideally, Plex would need practically direct access to the IPTV streams and do all the DVR stuff itself.
It reads your M3U8 playlist to show Plex a channel list. The download link in the playlist is a reference to muxy itself,
with the download link base64 encoded in the URI. When plex requests a file, muxy downloads the cronological TS files
and serves the MPEG stream to Plex.
Run muxy in verbose logging mode: ./muxyProxy -v 10 -logtostderr <path-to-m3u>
Try accessing http://localhost:8080/lineup.json and try out one of the stream URLs. (e.g. http://localhost:8080/stream/xxxxx)
You just need go and automake. To build, do a make in the source directory. Your executable will be muxyProxy.
Big thanks goes out to @jkaberg for his work on tvhProxy, where I got the idea from.