[smurfinator]

IPTV Recorder needs a dedicated web interface!

Just to clarify my last post, I added that to the subject line but it didn't show up.

Anyway my ideal TV DVR setup would be something that works like TabLo but with IPTV instead of OTA Tuners. So it would allow you to set recordings via a web or app based EPG grid interface and watch recordings on any device.
Kodi/LibreElec with this addon comes so close I can almost taste it. I can set basic recordings on my tablet via Chous2 web interface and then watch shows on other devices via SMB shared folder or even UPNP/DLNA. It's just missing the Grid style EPG layout.

One other request is to be able to set a desired quality for video streams and language or track number for audio streams. Some IPTV streams have multiple streams of different video resolutions/bit-rates and audio languages. I have been tinkering with ffmpeg "map" option a bit but it is only able to capture ALL streams, resulting in very large files, or specifically hard mapped streams. By default ffmpeg chooses the highest quality of each. Or if quality is the same for two streams, it selects the first one.

I recently discovered this can be an issue when trying to record this Czech Discovery channel:
http://83.167.253.110:5000/live/discovery/playlist.m3u8

By default ffmpeg discards the English track and only saves the Czech one. If you use "-map 0:v -map 0:a" you get both audio tracks, but then if you record a channel with many video streams, you get all of them in one large file.

I'm not very experienced at programming, but is there a way to call a script using AWK or GREP to automatically combine a desired video resolution and audio track?