[mythtv-users] How to configure IPTV source?

[Jon Whitear]

Hello list,

My ISP (TPG in Australia) has recently started trialling an IPTV service
and I'd like to integrate it with Myth.

I can watch IPTV using VLC on my Mac, using a network location such as
udp://@233.29.121.3, i.e. multicast UDP on port 1234. Each channel uses a
different multicast IP address.

My question is: how do I set this up in Myth? I understand from the
documentation that I should create a Freebox IPTV Recorder source (which I
have) and point it at an m3u playlist file defining the available
channels.

However, I'm a bit stuck on the format of the m3u file. Here's what I have
at the moment:-

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,Bloomberg
udp://233.29.121.3:1234

and I have also tried:-

[playlist]
File1=udp://@233.29.121.3
Title1=Bloomberg
Length1=-1
NumberOfEntries=1
Version=2

Either way, when I restart the backend, I get an error along the following
lines:-

2007-09-04 09:36:55.027 TVRec(4) Error: Problem finding starting channel,
setting to default of '3'.
2007-09-04 09:36:55.292 IPTVChanFetch, Error: Invalid header in channel
list line
                        EXTINF:-1,Bloomberg
2007-09-04 09:36:55.295 IPTVChan(4): Loaded 0 channels from
http://localhost/iptv-myth.m3u

or..

2007-09-03 21:09:27.812 TVRec(4) Error: Problem finding starting channel,
setting to default of '3'.
2007-09-03 21:09:27.856 IPTVChanFetch, Error: Invalid channel list header
([playlist])
2007-09-03 21:09:27.859 IPTVChan(4): Loaded 0 channels from
http://localhost/iptv-myth.m3u


I'm running SVN r14314. I'd be grateful for any help.

Cheers,

Jon