Problem below solved- it was a format problem !
http://xmtvplayer.com/build-m3u-file
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I found a strange behavior with my curated lists in m3u both in Kodi 17.6 and 18 beta2. Some are Youtube live TV channels, others I got from public IPTV lists. Tried two different list with same issue.
In kodi.log the ERROR message is :
ERROR: AddOnLog: PVR IPTV Simple Client: URL 'https://pastebin.com/*****' missing #EXTM3U descriptor on line 1, attempting to parse it anyway.
01:15:03.509 T:2996 NOTICE: AddOnLog: PVR IPTV Simple Client: Loaded 519 channels.
But my pastebin file, favorites.m3u, does have " #EXTM3U" in line 1 (without quotes) ! Nothing changes if I press Enter to move it to line 2 or 3 and Save file.
When I play from my hard drive in IPTV Simple Client all the 70+ channels play fine with logos.
However when I take the m3u list opened in notepad++ 7.5.8 (latest version, same problem with a previous one) and then copy paste into pastebin (either directly or as text only paste) to get a URL for access from PVR, I get additional unknown blank channels with no logos (500+ of them !) Don't know why the list gets populated with garbage entries.
The original channels are all there in between the fake empty ones and play fine with logos.
Is this a encoding/format problem, eg, Notepad++ > Edit > EOF> Unix LF etc ? Or a problem with the filename, favorites.m3u?
Anybody else notice it?
http://xmtvplayer.com/build-m3u-file
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I found a strange behavior with my curated lists in m3u both in Kodi 17.6 and 18 beta2. Some are Youtube live TV channels, others I got from public IPTV lists. Tried two different list with same issue.
In kodi.log the ERROR message is :
ERROR: AddOnLog: PVR IPTV Simple Client: URL 'https://pastebin.com/*****' missing #EXTM3U descriptor on line 1, attempting to parse it anyway.
01:15:03.509 T:2996 NOTICE: AddOnLog: PVR IPTV Simple Client: Loaded 519 channels.
But my pastebin file, favorites.m3u, does have " #EXTM3U" in line 1 (without quotes) ! Nothing changes if I press Enter to move it to line 2 or 3 and Save file.
When I play from my hard drive in IPTV Simple Client all the 70+ channels play fine with logos.
However when I take the m3u list opened in notepad++ 7.5.8 (latest version, same problem with a previous one) and then copy paste into pastebin (either directly or as text only paste) to get a URL for access from PVR, I get additional unknown blank channels with no logos (500+ of them !) Don't know why the list gets populated with garbage entries.
The original channels are all there in between the fake empty ones and play fine with logos.
Is this a encoding/format problem, eg, Notepad++ > Edit > EOF> Unix LF etc ? Or a problem with the filename, favorites.m3u?
Anybody else notice it?
