Serviio

Hello

I would like to access to free IPTV channels around the World from my TV by using https://github.com/Free-TV/IPTV or https://github.com/Free-TV/IPTV
I tried with Free-TV and I added, without success, the associated M3U playlist as an Online Source in Serviio https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Free-TV/IPTV/master/playlist.m3u8

Is it possible to use Serviio to access to such a playlist?
Thanks in advance

Pierre

Is it feasible to access such a playlist using Serviio?
Regards in advance https://raw.githubusercontent.com/geometry dash/Free-TV/IPTV/master/playlist.m3u8

Luther,

I believe it will entirely depend on how the online playlist file is created. If it uses complete URLs in each playlist item, I would expect it to work. But if they use relative addresses for items based on their internal servers, then I doubt they will work using something like Serviio.

That said, I just looked at the website that you linked to, and what I see is not something Serviio can use. it is an EPG (electronic programming guide), designed for use within an application that can display the station metadata and link a tuner (or a web link) and stream the content. Serviio does not have the ability to integrate a TV tuner, so has no need for an EPG. The XML date that is available in their files are designed for use within something like JRiver (which I use myself for my OTA recording). One of the biggest issues I see is that the single file includes every TV station in the country, and the one I downloaded has 12 million lines of data and is 512 MB in size, meaning it will take a lot of parsing of the file to extract only your local stations. Also, I didn't see the sub-channels of the stations included, meaning much of what might be available over the air is not going to have metadata.

But to hopefully make it all clear, Serviio has no capability to display an EPG, let alone link from the EPG to the actual streaming site address. Even if the EPG could be displayed, it would not have the ability to access the program displayed.

Pierre,

Same response to you. The playlist you link is an EPG, not a link to an actual streaming station. Serviio can do nothing with that. The playlists under the Github site in theory should work, but when I pasted one into my browser window I either get a site not found error, or an Access Denied message. I'm not going to take the time looking through the Github documentation to determine the issue, but the access message implies that the URL needs some sort of authentication embedded in it.