After years of frustration with MythTV, Plex, Emby, Jellyfin for live TV, I finally built my own backend.

What drove me here:

- Slow transcoding startup times (or janky offline pre-probing)

- Broken closed captioning

- Poor support for older GPUs

- Chromecast issues

- Xtream API treated as an afterthought

What I built:

- Hardware-accelerated transcoding (VAAPI, NVENC) with CPU fallbacks

- Optimized for older GPUs that larger projects have dropped

- Cached on-the-fly stream probing stream for faster startup

- Proper CC/subtitle passthrough

- Chromecast that actually works

- Native Xtream API support

- Minimal resource footprint

Soon I'll add AI upscaling, catch-up TV, and better DVR.

This is a self-hosted transcoding server for live streams--similar to Jellyfin and Emby but laser focused on minimalism and performance. It doesn't provide or aggregate content.