[dennis2]

I still have the problem in Kodi 16.1 that certain streams open very slowly (timeout of about 10 seconds, before they start buffering!).
Streams ending with .m3u8 open very fast.....but some other streams open very slow.
As far as I read hear I have to change MPEGTS to HLS (so replace for example .ts by .m3u8....and yes this works!).
But how do I do that with the following type of streams? (I edited the names of the streams, since I am not sure if I am supposed to post streams here)

"http://streams.streammedia.org:80/live?channelId=1&uid=2&deviceUser=xxx&devicePass=xxx"

OR

"http://streams.streammedia.com:80/live?channelId=195&uid=2144&deviceSn=xxxx"

Can I force Kodi somehow to open this as a HLS stream ? Or is there another workaround for this type of streams ?
At the moment they open very slowly in Kodi 16.1 (10 seconds delay...before Kodi starts buffering). On other IPTV players they work fine, and they also work fine on Kodi 17

Any suggestions ??