FastChannels - FAST Channels aggregator/manager

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#1902

I was able to import the M3U into Prismcast, but that's pretty much where the success ended. I put the chrome: etc. command you supplied in 3 Chrome instances: (1) the one that Prismcast opens to do its capture; (2) the "regular" Chrome on my server, and (3) the regular chrome on the most-used client PC (all run Windows 10 or 11). I have the cookie set in the Fast configuration. In Prismcast, I click the button to authenticate the source, and the feed will play, overlaid with a message "click space, or F to play fullscreen; C toggles captions" plus in larger print the name of the channel. At that point I can tell Prismcast that I'm done authenticating. Then go back to the Fast channels list and play it in full screen, and successfully play it there (after clicking a space to clear the overlaid message).

Channels, however, can't play or record this. I can watch what Prismcast is up to while attempting to watch in Channels, and it opens windows titled "about:blank" but they are indeed blank, and nothing plays in channels (running in Chrome for testing this), which displays a message "The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported."

For anyone who can make any sense of them, here's some log excerpts:

Prismcast logs say:

[2026/06/23 10:58:31.827 PM] [ERROR] [the-carol-burnett-show-jz9ijo] Stream setup failed for http://192.168.2.160:5523/watch/9290: Stream initialization timed out.

[2026/06/23 10:58:31.844 PM] [the-carol-burnett-show-jz9ijo] Stream ended after 10s (setup failed).

[2026/06/23 10:58:31.844 PM] [WARN] Stream setup failed for the-carol-burnett-show: Failed to start stream.

Channels log:

2026/06/23 22:57:56.710592 [TNR] Opened connection to M3U-Prismcast for ch9121 The Carol Burnett Show
2026/06/23 22:57:56.710592 [TNR] Closed connection to M3U-Prismcast for ch9121 The Carol Burnett Show
2026/06/23 22:57:56.728363 [TNR] Opened connection to M3U-Prismcast for ch9121 The Carol Burnett Show
2026/06/23 22:57:56.728938 [HLS] Starting live stream for channel 9121 from 192.168.2.174
2026/06/23 22:57:57.412724 [HLS] Session ch9121-dANY-ip192.168.2.174 started in 683.8024ms
2026/06/23 22:57:58.124515 [HLS] Probed live stream in 1.3943505s: h264 1280x720 progressive 149648bps
2026/06/23 22:58:29.618020 [HLS] Stopping inactive session ch9121-dANY-ip192.168.2.174
2026/06/23 22:58:29.618020 [HLS] Stopping transcoder session ch9121-dANY-ip192.168.2.174 (out=5.322ms finished=false first_seq=1 last_seq=1)
2026/06/23 22:58:29.625135 [TNR] Closed connection to M3U-Prismcast for ch9121 The Carol Burnett Show
2026/06/23 22:58:29.625135 [SNR] Buffer statistics for ch9121 The Carol Burnett Show: buf=0% drop=0%
2026/06/23 22:58:29.625135 [SNR] Streaming statistics for ch9121 The Carol Burnett Show: timeouts=0 segment_timeouts=0 playlist_timeouts=0

#1903

I personally pick a feed for what i want
for instance one feed would be my fast channel faves. I then hand pick what i want from what service.
My Fubo tv subscription has its' own feed.
FRNDLY has its own feed.
These are just free channels. I can take them or leave them. Not worth a ton of time spent.
I even use the custom option to handle some custom city council or links i have that are very specific.

#1904

Not sure what is up with mine. I have the latest version 4.5.0, but my page loads are still very slow (22 seconds for the Feeds, Guide 7 seconds, Sources 1.3 seconds , Channels 5 seconds, Dashboard 10 seconds).

I have a few other containers running, and everything else is fast and snappy. Computer is not under any load.

#1905

What other containers are you running on the machine at one time?
I recently had to shift activity off the Synology due to resource limits and things seem to have smoothed out.
The projects out in the community tend to take up resources at times.

#1906

It's running on an Intel NUC, other containers are seer, portainer, jacket and mysql. As a test I turned off all the other containers, and I still have the slowness. 3GB of RAM is free and CPU was under 50%.

#1907

I cloned FastChannels and ran it in my wsl instance, I imported the database backup from my container instance. It's nice and snappy! I'm not sure why it's so slow in the docker container.

I'm not really sure how to clean it up. Maybe I need to do a fresh docker install and then re-import from my database backup.

#1908

I stopped my container, removed /data/*, started the container and imported my backup, then restarted the container. It's still very slow :frowning:

#1909

Bizarre.. Working great over here. Not even sure what to recommend for you to try. I wonder if your DB is corrupt? Does it work fine with a fresh container by chance (without re-importing the old DB?)