Help with timeshifting IPTV?

by jamescridland

I have an Android TV box (as well as a few other plugin things too).

I'd like access to UK and US channels, but I live in Australia and typically when I'm awake, the UK and US aren't. There's only a certain amount of overnight programming that I'm interested in.

Is it possible to record IPTV with an app somehow?

Better, is there a service out there with an EPG that allows me to scroll back and select any show from the past X days?

Help gratefully received.

saulin74

The best solution is something like Emby. You can try it for $4.99 for a month. And You will need a computer to setup the server, then you use your phone or android box or pc as a client.

I tried IPTV Extreme Pro and it stopped working after some point on my Shield Android TV Box. Now it fails to record every single time.

ProgTV does record but you need to do a trick on Android N to make it record on a SD Card and the program needs to be open for the scheduled recordings to happen.

Another solution that works from a PC is recording with ffmpeg.

For example if you scheduled something like this on a batch file

"c:\ffmpeg\ffmpeg.exe" -y -i " r/ http://iptvserver.net/live/171.m3u8?token=2_LKvBzZ-oYm6rtg6eW7= " -c:v copy -c:a copy -t 01:30:00 "c:\recordings\myrecording.ts" >"c:\recordings\mylog.log" 2>&1

This should record the IPTV stream for 1 hour and 30 minutes using ffmpeg to c:\recordings\myrecording.ts

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Extreme iptv has the record function. I recorded the Joshua v Povetkin fight the other night manually, and I think you can even schedule future recordings.

jamescridland

As a report back... the best solution for this appears to be Helix, which offers catchup of major TV channels within the Helix app.