Giuseppe Sicilia wrote:
> It's not an TVH4.2 issue. Now i have two m3u-Link-Files. The old one works pretty well, either on tvh-4.1 or on tvh-4.3.
> With the new m3u i get hundreds of muxes but no services. I think, there are issues with iptv-servers.
>
> Best one would be to add links without any scans or somthing other tests...
>
> Its regarding this known bug:
>
> https://tvheadend.org/issues/3964
I have tested several iptv providers, most work well with tvh but the issue is, as described in my first post, indeed the adding of services in tvh requires to scan (so tunes into each channel) for the services. If you have a provider with many stations that is going to take 1. super long (my current new provider has +15000 chans) and 2. the provider will ban your ip as it will appear as "hammering" their server when tvh scan (so switches stations) every x seconds (depending on what you set, default is 30 seconds).
Another issue I ran into is indeed as described in the link that you sent, some iptv providers provide links with different content, albeit the link looks the same/very similar the content it gets is built different as you will see when indeed using tcpdump or wireshark to compare the different providers, you will not notice a difference in e.g. vlc.
Also noticed that the ones that work well with tvh, don't work so well with the kodi plugin "simple iptv", thought the ones that don't work with tvh work excellent with the simple iptv plugin for kodi.