ChannelFree
Jellyfin plugin that turns your library into live-TV channels in the TV guide: shuffled reruns, movie marathons, weighted mixes. Lightweight, no extra containers.
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Details
- External ID
- 1413497049
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- ChannelFree
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 21
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.45
- Tags
- —
Enrichment
- Niche
- diy media streaming and hardware hacks
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- live-tv channel generator plugin for jellyfin
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Writing a C# Jellyfin plugin to assemble dynamic playlists and virtual live-TV guide channels from existing media files uses standard server plugin APIs and playlist scheduling logic.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 54 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #25 of 55 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 213 days after the earliest competitor.
- Teilifís Seán · hn · 2026-10-13 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin · hn · 2026-04-08 · 120 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Nostalgex · github · 2026-09-28 · 43 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- SynthIPTV · github · 2026-09-12 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Netfree · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Uncompressed · hn · 2026-04-04 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Channel Surfer · hn · 2026-03-11 · 604 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- jellyfin-portal · github · 2026-09-30 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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