ISP streaming TV + Smart TV

1.) After playing with Smart IPTV app for Samsung smart TV I found out that my ISP is streaming TV channels. This was discovered with help of VLC (Network streams SAP) I  gathered channels and created a m3u playlist.

2.) To doublecheck if your ISP is showing all available channels via SAP announcements, software called simple-tv-by-maxwell-lite  based on VLC can be used to scan the multicast ports. Right click on th tv section -> tools -> searching channels

3.) After testing my playlist, I found out that not all channels  are working in the smart iptv app. Some channels just don’t wanna work, I am not sure if its a buffering issue.

In VLC the same playlist is working fine, channels play without any problem. Also via OpenElec (XBMC) on a raspberry pi.

After some time testing parameters in the playlist, I found out that it is a syntax issue in my playlist. Syntax for which was ok for VLC was not compatible with the smart iptv app.

So insted of having rtp://@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:yyyy  I had to change for the correct syntax rtp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:yyyy without the @ symbol.

xxx = IP addresss

yyyy = port number

Another useful featureis to convert an existing m3u playlist to the compatible format for the smart iptv app via the tool http://siptv.eu/converter/

Note, that it is important to save the .txt file in UTF-8 format. (In Notepad ++)

Example of a playlist in .txt format:

Group, Documentary
epg code,Channel Name 1,rtp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:yyyy
epg code,Channel Name 2,rtp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:yyyy
epg code,Channel Name 3,rtp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:yyyy

Group, Music
epg code,Channel Name 1,rtp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:yyyy
epg code,Channel Name 2,rtp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:yyyy
epg code,Channel Name 3,rtp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:yyyy

Group, News
epg code,Channel Name 1,rtp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:yyyy
epg code,Channel Name 2,rtp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:yyyy
epg code,Channel Name 3,rtp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:yyyy

Tutorial how to create a playlist from the creators app: http://siptv.eu/faq/playlist_en.html