Ah, thanks. Must be my mistake, or the syntax changed, because I was trying: http://www.youtube.com/channel/@twit/live
Regardless, I don't think the Kister Method can work with the corrected https://www.youtube.com/@twit/live address either anyway, as the Kister Method's syntax specifically requires a vid_id in the URL.
Cool, thanks. It’s working great.
Now I dare you to make it easier a create a gui on your site with selectable variables and settings! 
is there a possibility to add something and streams to be automatically mute?
Strange, i try streams on omxplayer on raspberry pi, it worked for a couple of minutes, and then just turn off.
No
I never knew about that. I obviously have no experience with it, but it should be super simple to support. I added a hack to make @ usernames work just like vid_id, except the script will automatically add /live to the end.
https://kister.net/mpl/yt2m3u8?v=@twit
Brand new code, I don't know how it will behave when twit is not streaming/live.
Some of the confusion stems from a different thread where @Steffi_333 had been trying to address an issue with FAR more frequent timeouts (like every few hours.) That thread was closed as it wasn't about Channels DVR. Youtube to m3u - #3 by Stefi_333
Still not about Channels DVR. As you were told by one of the developers and administrator of this forum, this is off-topic, and your questions about other applications belong elsewhere. Please don't get this thread locked too 
Wow, this is awesome! Thanks so much. I'll give it a shot and see how it goes. Super cool, I'm learning a lot from this and appreciate you sharing.
I 
The Kister Method.
Nice! It works.
Ok, its not about Channels Dvr, i understand.
I dont get my threat locked, my opinion is that is you.
But ok, i understand, thanks!!!
Any ideas why this request to twit is failing?
2023/02/28 23:52:08.062967 [ERR] Failed to start stream for ch13: M3U: Could not fetch playlist: kister.net: get https://kister.net/mpl/yt2m3u8?w=@twit: 429 Too Many Requests
2023/02/28 23:52:08.166412 [HLS] Couldn't generate stream playlist for ch13-dANY-ip192.168.1.10: M3U: Could not fetch playlist: kister.net: get https://kister.net/mpl/yt2m3u8?w=@twit: 429 Too Many Requests
2023/02/28 23:52:08.166412 [HLS] Stopping transcoder session ch13-dANY-ip192.168.1.10
Just as a data point, I just tested and my TWiT livestream via the Kister Method is working fine. Hmm.
I don't have anything that I can think of that would generate any 429. And I don't relay any error that youtube sends. Do you happen to use a proxy server or VPN ?
Can we do 4k streams? It seems it tops at 1080p for this video
It should if/when youtube allows 4k streaming to web browers. I think they only allow it to the youtube apps right now.
Still loving the Kister Method, one of my favorite use cases is setting up Channels as a jukebox of some favorite YouTube Live streams (lo-fi music, in this example.) I realize this is a niche case but maybe others are interested to learn from it. And if there's a reason this happens, perhaps it can be addressed. Anyway, when I first set these up as custom channels, everything works perfectly and the display even includes the proper emoji in the descriptions:
Then, I'll notice, some days later, that all emojis are lost and it's just some odd characters in its place.
I'm not sure what triggers it to display properly again, sometimes a reboot, but not always.
Anyway, not a big deal but certainly curious, as it does display nicely at first. And everything else about it works amazingly well, and quickly. Super slick, thanks again @jkister!
Also here is the URL for some of the 24/7 music livestreams included above, for use as the Custom Channel, if it inspires any.
Looks like this response header:
Content-Type: application/vnd.apple.mpegurl; charset=ISO-8859-1
It would be preferable if the contents were served up as UTF-8
Fixed!
Wow! Amazing. I’m so grateful. This exchange made my day. Thank you both. Rock stars!
Unfortunately I've noticed this problem has returned, there's unicode characters appearing again. And it's intermittent, sometimes the emoji appear properly, although I can't discern a pattern of when or why. No big deal, not worth spending time debugging. I still recognize these channels by their thumbnails. But just wanted to share in case others find similar issues with emojis in their shows' descriptions in the future.
