[mythtv-users] IPTV in .23

[Robert Johnston]

On 11/08/2010 9:59 AM, Mark Weil wrote:
>  >The way I did it is using the following m3u file (Hand-generated):
>
>  >http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Sasktel_IPTV_Regina_Channels
>
>  >I will note that (IIRC) Myth only supports RTP and UDP streams, not
> MMS or RTSP streams.
>
> the location that you specify for your .m3u file... Is that local
> address (/home/me/channels.m3u) or http (http://localhost/channels.m3u)
> style?
>
> When I did local file it gave me
>   IPTVChanFetch, Error: Invalid channel list header ()
>
> but running it as a link through apache may have worked...
>
> if that's the case then local .m3u's may not work anymore.
>
> When you clicked on 'Scan for channels' (or whatever it's called on the
> m3u import screen) did you get any feedback?
>   I got no feedback, and none of the channels were available in the
> channel editor, but the backend log says
>
> IPTVChan(1): Loaded 134 channels from http://127.0.0.1/this
>
> I checked the channels table in mythconverg and they had made it in
> there. yay.

I used it hosted off the local apache, but IIRC, you can use local files 
by using the "file:///" URL scheme (So in your case, 
"file:///home/me/channels.m3u").