i think many people interpret “arch is unstable” as “arch breaks a lot” while it imho just means its bleeding edge and software is not only updated on upgrades but all the time. my arch installations did sometimes “break” but were much easier to recover than e.g. all the failed ubuntu upgrades which i had ni idea how tonfix without reinstalling. for me arch was the perfect learning distro and is now even easier to install since there is the archinstall script.

I just had a look in my .m3u

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:0,RTL Television
#EXTVLCOPT:network-caching=1000
rtsp://192.168.1.1:554/?avm=1&freq=466&bw=8&msys=dvbc&mtype=256qam&sr=6900&specinv=1&pids=0,16,17,18,20,7630,7631,7632,7633,7634,7635,7636,7637,7638
#EXTINF:0,SAT.1
#EXTVLCOPT:network-caching=1000
rtsp://192.168.1.1:554/?avm=1&freq=466&bw=8&msys=dvbc&mtype=256qam&sr=6900&specinv=1&pids=0,16,17,18,20,7660,7661,7662,7663,7667,7668

i guess the pids might be location dependant so you won’t be able to copy & paste this.

yeah. i did remove all channels i don’t use but … yes

i have the same setup here and have this running fine here. i had similar problems with not running livetv earlier and had to use the jellyfin webinterface to play live tv since the app not work good IIRC.

(using the web player in the jellyfin app IS currently working for me)

for epg data I use: https://github.com/iptv-org/epg (hint: I use the site web.magentatv.de)

i did pay 350€ for mine back then but i have no idea about the current price tag

i’ll add a kyocera ecosys m5526cdw (laser color with scanner,…) to the list. i don’t know what the currently version of this model is but it didn’t let me down once in the last 5? years. works on Linux, Windows, Android without a problem, the Image quality is ok and the toner costs are really low.