[mythtv-users] IPTV issues with AES streams

[OpenMedia Support]

> On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 17:14:25 -0400, you wrote:
>
>>I'm a few messages behind on this thread.  I hope you will indulge
>>me...
>>
>>On Fri, 2020-04-17 at 08:53 +1200, OpenMedia Support wrote:
>>> > On 16/04/2020 12:43, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > On Thu, 2020-04-16 at 18:38 +1200, OpenMedia Support wrote:
>>> > > > We've not got a wide range of IPTV streams available here in
>>> > > > NZ, most
>>> > > > of
>>> > > > which work with the updated IPTV code in MythTV 31.
>>
>>I'm in North America -- home of the super-narrow-cable-TV-silo market
>>where you have to buy/rent cable boxes from your cableco because
>>everything between them and the cableco is proprietary/encrypted/etc.,
>>to maximize the amount of blood the cablecos can extract.
>>
>>So this idea of "open" IPTV is a bit foreign to me.
>>
>>Just so I understand, these are unencrypted, unauthenticated IPTV
>>streams that anyone can fetch and watch?  I.e. given that you are
>>expecting MythTV to be able to watch/record, I assume given the venue
>>here.
>>
>>If so, what's the business model?  Why are your TV networks being so
>>open?
>>
>>Cheers,
>>b.
>
> It is the same model as free-to-air broadcast via the radio spectrum -
> the streams carry advertising.

These streams are either FTA broadcasters or Public Owned broadcasters.

There is an interesting range of IPTV playlists at
 - https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv/tree/master/channels

Here in NZ most of our FTA broadcasters now support IPTV in some form.

Steven