Hi!
My tvheadend server is basically up and running, providing about 200 TV channels of the attached DVB-C USB stick. I'm also able to download a playlist m3u file (http://192.168.1.10:9981/playlist). This file contains lines like the following:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,Das Erste HD
http://192.168.1.10:9981/stream/channelid/875925143?ticket=6FD71E44D473FD860F9C3170AA0705437C7155DA&profile=pass
#EXTINF:-1,ZDF HD
http://192.168.1.10:9981/stream/channelid/1216905013?ticket=BD886343E4C55E193C5ACE75D96700D95D5F1388&profile=pass
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Using VLC or other IPTV players on my laptop or my android phone I'm perfectly able to watch all available channels.
However, my Panasonic Viera TV refuses to load the channel list. In the IPTV setup I selected "Multicast" in the and inserted a USB memory stick with the above file (after renaming it "satip.m3u") to the TV's USB port. Unfortunately the Viera TV refuses to load the list but directly jumps back to a empty channel overview list.
I assume that the reason is that the Panasonic Viera TV is not able to deal with http links within the m3u file. For testing purposes I downloaded a m3u list of the Telekom Entertain IPTV package. This file contains the following entries:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,(1) Das Erste
rtp://@239.35.10.4:10000
#EXTINF:-1,(2) ZDF
rtp://@239.35.10.5:10000
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Putting this file to the USB memory stick (after renaming it satip.m3u), the Panasonic Viera TV is loading the full channel list from this file. These channels are available in the TV's channel overview list afterwards.
So I'm wondering why the first list is refused while the second one works like a charm. I cannot see any other difference between these two files than "http" vs. "rtp" links. Hence I assume that the Panasonic Viera TV is unable to deal with http links and needs rtp links.
Do you share my point of view?
Is there any way of generating a channel list with rtp links in tvheadend?