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alexballas / go2tv

Cast media files to UPnP/DLNA Media Renderers and Smart TVs.
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m3u links support #84

Closed erxson closed 5 months ago

erxson commented 5 months ago

It would great to play links from this repo https://github.com/Free-TV/IPTV like .m3u8 or .mpd streams

I already tried to stream one of those urls, but my tv says that "format is not supported"

Ilyaxin commented 5 months ago

good idea!

alexballas commented 5 months ago

Hello,

Unfortunately, this is not something we can control in Go2TV. Let me explain:

All Go2TV does is point a specific media file to a device (media renderer), and it's up to the device to decide how to handle it. To my knowledge, no media renderer can handle files like .m3u8, and I have tested many. Go2TV is based on a subset of the DLNA protocol, which is considered a "legacy protocol" by many vendors. As such, any adaptation of that protocol tends to be very bare-bones.

Formats like .m3u8 are more complex, and I doubt the vendors would put in the effort to integrate them with DLNA.

For the reasons above, I'll close this ticket.