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id: friend-group-tv-channel-playout/06-what-i-could-not-confirm
title: 'Friend group TV channel playout: 6. What I could not confirm'
report: https://ai.hiina.space/reports/friend-group-tv-channel-playout.md
section: 6
version: 1
updated: '2026-10-27'
author: Hiina
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# Friend group TV channel playout: 6. What I could not confirm

- Section 6 of 8 of the report "Friend group TV channel playout" by Hiina (v1, updated 2026-10-27)
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## 6. What I could not confirm

I did not install or run anything. Everything above comes from source code, docs and changelogs.

**Cold-start latency** is unmeasured for every option. Next waits up to 30 s for a channel to become ready. An older issue reported about 30 s startups on the Next engine inside the app, and a later release improved MPEG-TS start time ([issue #274](https://github.com/ErsatzTV/next/issues/274), [v26.11.3](https://api.github.com/repos/ErsatzTV/ErsatzTV/releases/tags/v26.11.3)). Test this before you trust it.

**Standalone Next's playout reloading** is not documented. I do not know whether it picks up an edited JSON file while a channel is playing. A v26.11.4 fix for Next channels "falling behind schedule when a playout was updated" suggests updates are read while a channel is live, but that fix was for the app-hosted engine.

**Glitches at item boundaries** with sub-minute clips have no benchmarks in any tool. Neither does whether hls.js copes with codec changes across discontinuities.

**Tunarr's on-demand mode** and its scheduler details are confirmed from source only. Its docs pages and API reference were unreachable.

**Idle behavior** is unconfirmed for Channel Engine, AzuraCast, and OpenTogetherTube's room clock.

**Shell wrapping of the `runOnDemand` command**, meaning whether MediaMTX runs it through `/bin/sh -c`, is unverified. Use `exec` in your script either way.

**Linux distribution packaging** for ErsatzTV Next, Tunarr and Liquidsoap 2.4.6 was not checked.

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