Mark channels as HD/SD with M3U sources

Brand new user here, just signed up last night after finally giving up on Plex.

I'm using TVHeadend and so M3U, managed to get just about everything working but all channels are marked as HD. Is there some way to correctly set channels as HD & SD? If not how do I log a feature request?

Thanks!

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Thanks, I didn't come across that in my search. I'm using docker and fancybits/channels-dvr:latest which doesn't appear to have been updated in a year, am I right in thinking this isn't available yet?

Further, just to confirm, when it is available I can just add group-title=“SD” against all my non-HD channels?

Thanks again :slight_smile:

The Docker container is essentially a shell. The DVR server updates itself within the container.

The feature is currently available.

To the necessary #EXTINF lines in your playlist, yes.

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Ah, that makes sense. I've given it a try, here's a snippet from my M3U

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1 logo="http://192.168.1.10:9981/tvheadend/imagecache/1306" tvg-id="0a36aa88a31f90fe6a4cecaadb0615f9" group-title="SD" tvg-chno="1",BBC ONE Yorks
http://192.168.1.10:9981/tvheadend/stream/channelid/145372682?profile=pass
#EXTINF:-1 logo="http://192.168.1.10:9981/tvheadend/imagecache/1339" tvg-id="ef5731d53991cf3ea279623c18ac92d5" group-title="SD" tvg-chno="2",BBC TWO
http://192.168.1.10:9981/tvheadend/stream/channelid/1429297135?profile=pass
...
...
#EXTINF:-1 logo="http://192.168.1.10:9981/tvheadend/imagecache/1315" tvg-id="7b2801b14997fb86b0f862fc598f93f1" tvg-chno="101",BBC ONE HD
http://192.168.1.10:9981/tvheadend/stream/channelid/822159483?profile=pass
#EXTINF:-1 logo="http://192.168.1.10:9981/tvheadend/imagecache/1340" tvg-id="e7381860d10bdcdcbcd861e4e7416a21" tvg-chno="102",BBC TWO HD
http://192.168.1.10:9981/tvheadend/stream/channelid/1612200167?profile=pass

But all the channels are still HD (I don't have anything in "SD Channels" and everything is in "HD Channels"). Any advice? Thanks for the help so far :slight_smile:

Did you do this as a fresh/new custom channel, or edit an existing one? If you edited the existing one, have you refreshed the playlist from the DVR?

Also, have you forced a guide update, too? (May not be necessary, but I find whenever mucking about with lineups, even for minor things, going to Settings > Guide Database > Maintenance > Delete and Recreate Database to always be helpful.

So previously I was pointing at the M3U tvheadend exposes, but I switched to using Source > Text and pasting in my M3U. I've just totally removed the source, deleted the guide DB (using the method you mentioned) and set it back up but still all channels are showing as HD. I've tried adding group-title="HD" to my HD channels too but it hasn't made a difference.

Sorry it is looking for group-id="SD". I'll add group-title as well for the next build.

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Worked straight away :grinning:

Thanks for your help @tmm1 & @racameron

For anyone coming across this, my M3U now looks like:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1 logo="http://192.168.1.10:9981/tvheadend/imagecache/1306" tvg-id="0a36aa88a31f90fe6a4cecaadb0615f9" group-id="SD" tvg-chno="1",BBC ONE Yorks
http://192.168.1.10:9981/tvheadend/stream/channelid/145372682?profile=pass
#EXTINF:-1 logo="http://192.168.1.10:9981/tvheadend/imagecache/1339" tvg-id="ef5731d53991cf3ea279623c18ac92d5" group-id="SD" tvg-chno="2",BBC TWO
http://192.168.1.10:9981/tvheadend/stream/channelid/1429297135?profile=pass
...
...
#EXTINF:-1 logo="http://192.168.1.10:9981/tvheadend/imagecache/1315" tvg-id="7b2801b14997fb86b0f862fc598f93f1" tvg-chno="101",BBC ONE HD
http://192.168.1.10:9981/tvheadend/stream/channelid/822159483?profile=pass
#EXTINF:-1 logo="http://192.168.1.10:9981/tvheadend/imagecache/1340" tvg-id="e7381860d10bdcdcbcd861e4e7416a21" tvg-chno="102",BBC TWO HD
http://192.168.1.10:9981/tvheadend/stream/channelid/1612200167?profile=pass

and as you can see they are now showing up under non-HD correctly:

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Sorry to bump such an old thread, do you think it would be possible to indicate 4K channels via the same means? e.g. adding group-id="4K" or something similar to a custom M3U file?