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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 1236889" data-attributes="member: 82144">You absolutely do not need a physical tuner card. However, you need to be aware that m3u and m3u8 are different.TV Server's built in virtual tuner only supports m3u and (sorry, technical term) MPEG 2 transport streams. In other words: it doesn't support just any old internet stream. It's intended for actual IPTV - in other words, [usually/often] TV supplied with your internet connection by your internet service provider (ISP).There is another community-developed/supported virtual tuner here:<a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/merging-mediaportal-url-source-splitter-iptv-filter.121165/" target="_blank">MERGING MediaPortal Url Source Splitter &amp; IPTV Filter</a>This other tuner supports some m3u8 stream sources. However, you're still constrained to MPEG 2 transport streams in the TV Server world. Most m3u8 streams are not MPEG 2 transport streams. Therefore I'm sorry to say that I think it's highly unlikely that you're going to get your streams working through TV Server even with the other tuner.What's more likely to work is MediaPortal's OnlineVideos plugin. The plugin uses the community-developed virtual tuner, but without the constraints of TV Server. In other words: more streams will be compatible (because they don't have to be MPEG 2 transport streams), but in exchange you lose the ability to view and record the streams as if they were TV channels.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 1236889, member: 82144"] You absolutely do [B]not[/B] need a physical tuner card. However, you need to be aware that m3u and m3u8 are different. TV Server's built in virtual tuner only supports m3u and (sorry, technical term) MPEG 2 transport streams. In other words: it doesn't support just any old internet stream. It's intended for [I]actual[/I] IPTV - in other words, [usually/often] TV supplied with your internet connection by your internet service provider (ISP). There is another community-developed/supported virtual tuner here: [URL="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/merging-mediaportal-url-source-splitter-iptv-filter.121165/"]MERGING MediaPortal Url Source Splitter & IPTV Filter[/URL] This other tuner supports [B]some[/B] m3u8 stream sources. However, you're still constrained to MPEG 2 transport streams in the TV Server world. Most m3u8 streams are not MPEG 2 transport streams. Therefore I'm sorry to say that I think it's highly unlikely that you're going to get your streams working [I]through TV Server[/I] even with the other tuner. What's more likely to work is MediaPortal's OnlineVideos plugin. The plugin uses the community-developed virtual tuner, but without the constraints of TV Server. In other words: more streams will be compatible (because they don't have to be MPEG 2 transport streams), but in exchange you lose the ability to view and record the streams as if they were TV channels. [/QUOTE]

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