Streaming from my PC to TV via IPTV

by ProTreo

Greetings I have a very dumb question, that I wasted countless hours searching easy answers for and couldn't find, maybe I'm asking inproperly, so let me explain it here, I hope community will help me and point in right direction at least.

I'm renting apartment and I have kinda old TV with 2 HDMI ports (Sony KLV-26S550A), behind this TV i have ethernet cable coming from wall (but this is most likely will end up not getting connected anywhere, because TV doesn't have LAN port). I got Lexand LTV 300 tv tuner from my friends and this old device has HDMI and USB slots, so I'm connecting to WIFI using USB Dongle and connecting it to TV through HDMI. The culprit here - I can't use HDMI cable directly between my PC and TV, because they are too far apart and it will basically hang all over the place - I don't want that. This Lexand LTV 300 tuner doesn't support DLNA, so I cant stream over WIFI to it from my PC/Laptop/Phone. Instead I came with idea of setting up IPTV server on my home PC and broadcasting it over local network. And now comes the fun part, I wasnt able to properly google stuff on how to make it and how to do it, all I found so far is free Jellyfin media server which I installed on my windows machine, but I dont understand how to create IPTV Broadcast there (I presume its called LiveTV here) and most importantly I do not understand how and through which software should I stream my PC screen (or at least sound, because I want sound in the first place) using this IPTV technology. I digged into iptv playlists stuff and found out that it's m 3 u playlists which point to servers or folders. And here I'm stuck, because I though Jellyfin will do exactly this for me (like streaming using OBS for twitch), but instead I will end up with local IP:Port pair which I would need to forward through my router or create an actual m 3 u playlist which will point to it.

Please correct my ignorance in this question and point me in right direction - is it even possible to perform what I want? Will it work for audio? Or I'm better buying more modern hardware (TV tuner) with DLNA in it so I can stream from my PC over WIFI.

I'm super tight on budget, that's why I'm making all of this... and at the end all I wanted is to use TV as audio speaker for my pc so I can get rid of my headset and listen to music from youtube while in a room.

Richg542

It’ll be a whole lot easier just to buy yourself a fire stick or a android box and download the Tivimate player to use with your IPTV Service..

hank_charles_moody

I wouldn't overcomplicate things especially if it mostly for youtube; the would be to get a RasPi2/3 and convert that to a HTPC.

Through the RPI you can watch, listen to local and internetstreams, setup a retroconsole, multiroom-speaker etc.

Give KODI on RPI a look with its sheer endless possibilities.

SooThatGuy

See if it works with Plex server? Then just buy a Fire Stick to play over HDMI.

Or forget about the tuner, and purchase a subscription for local programming (or a subscription from a grey market provider)

EFX007

Why stream from your PC...when you can just buy a streaming device like a Firestick 4K, Tivo 4K, GCCGTV etc etc. These devices are all reasonably priced between $30 to $50 and will most definitely solve your problem.

Shamatix1

I would suggest you buy a "Google Chromecast With TV" as others kind of have suggested with the android tv^^

FractalParadigm

I think you've got the wrong idea of what Jellyfin is for, and what it is capable of. As far as I'm aware, it's not capable of creating live broadcasts, only receiving them. It can transcode movies and stream them, but this isn't the same as a live broadcast.

You might have some luck messing around with OBS. You'll be able to create a link for your stream, which you can probably somehow modify into a playlist to be able to watch like a channel. Full disclosure, I don't know shit about IPTV boxes (because I use Emby as my IPTV receiver), just spitballing ideas. If you're really only concerned about audio you can cast your entire desktop window using a Chromecast, which can be found used for really cheap.

JaguarLow1879

Have you tried downloading Plex?