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Anyone know how Tivimate handles an M3U file?

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Wellyfish

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Let's say, for example, I had a list of films and Series/episodes of my own that I wanted to make them into an m3u file and use Tivimate to view them - its just an example ...

anyone know how Tivimate distinguishes between Movies and Show/Series in the m3u list?

Thanks
 
Wellyfish said:
Let's say, for example, I had a list of films and Series/episodes of my own that I wanted to make them into an m3u file and use Tivimate to view them - its just an example ...

anyone know how Tivimate distinguishes between Movies and Show/Series in the m3u list?

Thanks
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Stick it on USB

Playlists->Choose Add Playlist.->Select M3U playlist. Then navigate to it and choose a name.

Somat like that from memory.
 
Ferret. said:
Stick it on USB

Playlists->Choose Add Playlist.->Select M3U playlist. Then navigate to it and choose a name.

Somat like that from memory.
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Cheers.

With the help of an AI I'm building my own Import/Edit/Export software for IPTV lists - just for me as - and I've come across a problem with the M3U export: Tivimate will pick up Live Tv and Movies as they should appear but it treats Shows (and every episode of every show) the same way as Movies so I'm wondering if there's something in the formatting of the file which I've missed.

The m3u file seems to appear as it should in Televizo (haven't fully tested yet) but AI is telling me it's a Tivimate limitation, it cant do any more with formatting and has come up with a complex solution.

So I thought I'd ask in here and see if anyone could help.
 
How many movies and TV shows we talking about. For your project something like kodi is better don't know why you would want to use tivimate.

I am taking it you have some movies and TV shows stored on a PC or NAS and trying to create a M3U
 
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mike123 said:
How many movies and TV shows we talking about. For your project something like kodi is better don't know why you would want to use tivimate.

I am taking it you have some movies and TV shows stored on a PC or NAS and trying to create a M3U
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It doesn't seem to matter how many live TV or movies, could be 100s, 1 or none, always the same result.

Kodi - jees I haven't used that for donkeys. Does it play live tv with an epg these days?

I have a list of live tv channels, movies and shows.
 
So a m3u file is just a link to were media is stored.

Tivimate is a player that can play the media.

You need to create in the m3 u file

Name of of show and all the episodes within that

Yes it can be done but it is long winded and would need a fairly large post
 
mike123 said:
So a m3u file is just a link to were media is stored.

Tivimate is a player that can play the media.

You need to create in the m3 u file

Name of of show and all the episodes within that

Yes it can be done but it is long winded and would need a fairly large post
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Yes . My software will allow me to "import" into my database only the categories I want (the sub provides a huge list, most of which I'm not interested in); once imported to my database I can then edit, merge rename, reorder etc any categories and or channels within the database.

Once I'm happy with what I've got, I can then export my database as an m3u file to my web server.

Everything works as I want it to ... Except tivimate doesn't treat the "Shows" as Series with episodes.

Hence my enquiry about how tivimate handles TV, movies and shows.

Does that make sense?
 
Yes that's because that all gets done on another piece of software. You might be able to do it in something like IPTV editor

Create e.g the TV show then add the episode links within that TV show.
 
mike123 said:
Yes that's because that all gets done on another piece of software. You might be able to do it in something like IPTV editor

Create e.g the TV show then add the episode links within that TV show.
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Yeah, I've kinda created my own IPTV Editor but you've given me an idea.

Putting aside misgivings about exposing credentials to IPTV Editor or whoever, if I can get them to output an m3u which displays TV, Movies and Shows correctly in Tivimate then I'll be able to compare their output with mine.

Cheers
 
Wellyfish said:
Yeah, I've kinda created my own IPTV Editor but you've given me an idea.

Putting aside misgivings about exposing credentials to IPTV Editor or whoever, if I can get them to output an m3u which displays TV, Movies and Shows correctly in Tivimate then I'll be able to compare their output with mine.

Cheers
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I have used iptv editor for curating public services from online marketplaces.
I have had no issues with it tbh.
EPGgenius curators use it and I have not seen them mention issues using it either.
Kodi is great for VOD but not live TV with EPG’s.
iMPlayer and Sparkle handle m3u VOD better than Tivimate.
 
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Aristotle said:
I have used iptv editor for curating public services from online marketplaces.
I have had no issues with it tbh.
EPGgenius curators use it and I have not seen them mention issues using it either.
Kodi is great for VOD but not live TV with EPG’s.
iMPlayer and Sparkle handle m3u VOD better than Tivimate.
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THIS^^ kodi is great for vod , but it really struggles with iptv lists.
 
Wellyfish said:
Yeah, I've kinda created my own IPTV Editor but you've given me an idea.

Putting aside misgivings about exposing credentials to IPTV Editor or whoever, if I can get them to output an m3u which displays TV, Movies and Shows correctly in Tivimate then I'll be able to compare their output with mine.

Cheers
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If you want to check and compare text format in your list with one that has tv series that tivimate recognised , you could buy a cheap Chinese sub . Get a month sub for literally a couple of quid and a sample of series part in a text editor ?
 
Aristotle said:
Aristotle said:
I have used iptv editor for curating public services from online marketplaces.
I have had no issues with it tbh.
EPGgenius curators use it and I have not seen them mention issues using it either.
Kodi is great for VOD but not live TV with EPG’s.
iMPlayer and Sparkle handle m3u VOD better than Tivimate.
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Yeah, I'm not casting nasturtiums on IPTV Editor or anyone else but these things are always "safe and secure" until one day, maybe they aren't - all part of the landscape I suppose. Maybe I'm being overly concerned but I'll keep going with my little project and see if I can figure it out. Cheers.
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soltia said:
If you want to check and compare text format in your list with one that has tv series that tivimate recognised , you could buy a cheap Chinese sub . Get a month sub for literally a couple of quid and a sample of series part in a text editor ?
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Thats almost exactly what I'm doing.

With a cheap eastern sub:

1. load into my app using xtream - curate and export to m3u - load playlist into tivimate and see what shows
2. load into iptv editor via xtream and m3u url and file (in different tests) - export to m3u - load into tivimate and see what shows
3. collate results and investigate differences

cheers
 
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