ErsatzTV is beta software for configuring and streaming custom live channels using your media library. The software may be unstable and is under active development.

Documentation is available at ersatztv.org.

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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 and metadata
• Jellyfin media and metadata
• Emby media and metadata
• Song and music video libraries
• Pre-roll, mid-roll, post-roll filler options
• Subtitle burn-in

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