did you just drop the full index into the config, like the 'how to use' image shows in the repo's 'readme'? take that out, it's all 10,000+ 'channels'. go into the repo's 'streams' directory and find one or a few for your country and add those instead (load the 'raw' url for each in the browser, then copy the resulting address from your browser address bar into the config).

[–] teft@piefed.social 7 points 2 weeks ago

Vlc

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 6 points 2 weeks ago

IPTV. I use Trivimate on my Android box.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I watch iptv with Kodi and it's pretty solid.

But I went through the same thing with iptv-org. It seems many of the listed channels are largely dead. I manually scrubbed the english list by checking the channels but it was pretty brutal. I think like 200-400 channels were working out of 2000+.

There are also online m3u checkers if you search like "m3u checker". I've used some web-based apps. They're somewhat slow but ok. There's also an m3u checker that you can install locally. I haven't tried it yet but I'm wondering if it might be faster.

I try not to bother with obviously pirated channels because they usually go down pretty quick. I'm much more interested in legit channels that will stay up.

Lastly I also have all the Pluto channels with EPG. I used this app for the channels and EPG.

I also wrote some scripts to download/merge channels and EPGs. TBH it's kind of a PITA but it's like a hobby.

(edit: One last thing... I noticed that some channels worked with VLC but not Kodi. I had to adjust some settings in Kodi to make them work. In particular I had to change my user agent to OKHTTP for Pluto channels.)

[–] sk@utsukta.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

@plankton I've added the same to mine and it works for me.

[–] worthdeparture@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

kodi + jacktook addon - enable m3u/epg, usatv and a few more options in catalogue addon in setting
stremio + tv channels addon