Help about watching online streams on Samsung SMART TV!

Hello all.I'm new to all of this and I was only use Serviio to play movies and music.But I also want to try to watch some online channels and streams but I don't know how.I would love to know how to play playlists and other streams,what plugins I need to make everything work.I use Serviio 1.5 on Samsung 40H6400 TV.

[jhb50]

Just read the documentation and the wiki.

Just read the documentation and the wiki.

Thank you for nothing and thank you for detail instruction.

[atc98092]

The first thing you have to ask is what do you want to watch? Almost all online sources require a plug-in. Serviio does not ship with any, so you need to go to the plug-ins sub-forum to see what's there. Many of them only work in specific countries. If there's no plug-in for what you were thinking of, you can attempt to play it without one, but it's unlikely to work.

On the main Serviio web page, there's a link for support. On this page is links to the Wiki that jhb50 mentioned, as well as other resources. They will likely cover most of your initial questions. Once you understand the basics and have further questions, we'll be glad to answer more specific questions.

One other note: playlists are not related to online resources. You can build playlists of your local media. No plug-in is necessary for that.

I would love to watch live IPTV streams for start (streams about fashion,music,sport etc).Currently I found some .sob file for serviio and some of the streams still works and most of them have m3u8 letters in the end.Also I was try to add some live streams but I get "check your internet connection" error.Where can I find streams like this and can I add m3u lists to serviio somehow?

[atc98092]

If I remember correctly, a file that ends with m3u8 is only a format file, and doesn't contain the actual video. It specifies the files to be played and in what order. This is done when a file is transcoded in some fashion, and the transcoded files are broken into small pieces of the complete video. Serviio recognizes the m3u8 file and can assemble and play play the videos, but the videos have to exist where the m3u8 file says they are. So if you play the file and you get the error, then it's pointing to a bad location.

If you have one of the mm3u8 files downloaded, open one with a text editor and you will see the format. It will tell where the file chunks are supposed to be located, and my guess is they are supposed to be in the same folder as the format file. therefore, if you don't have them, nothing will play.

Most online sources I've seen send the video as an MP4, which your TV can probably play without conversion, or FLV, which likely needs transcoding. But if the video is sent in chunks, each chunk might be in a format the TV doesn't support. I don't know how you can tell Serviio to transcode the files, as I simply don't know that much about how transcoding works, especially with online sources.

[jhb50]

m3u8 is an apple http formated stream as described in the documentation under "Online content management". .. Click Big Serviio above then Support..
Stream urls can be found by viewing the source html of web pages that play them, or the files (typically .js javascript files that those web pages call), however they change frequently or are encoded or require token keys to try and stop you from stealing them, so you typically need a plugin that automates the stream retrieval each time you ask to play them.

Thanks for the reply guys.Where can I find that plugin and can I open m3u list with IPTV channels with Serviio and how?

[jhb50]

Maybe look in "Available Plugins" ?