Fixup needed for special IPTV streams

[bjoernv@…]

I tried to setup the IPTV playlist

​http://tv.iptv.ink/iptv.ink

according to

​https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual:Setting_up_HTTP_Live_Streaming_Recorder

No channels are found in MythTV 0.27 and 0.28. Other applications like VLC or the Android App "IPTV" (​https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.iptvremote.android.iptv) have no problems with this playlist.

Some debugging shows that ./mythtv/libs/libmythtv/channelscan/iptvchannelfetcher.cpp (function parse_chan_info) does not recognize the channel info.

[Karl Egly]

#EXTINF:0002 tvg-id="daserste.de" group-title="DE Hauptsender" tvg-logo="609281.png", [COLOR gold]Das Erste[/COLOR]
http://api.iptv.ink/pl.m3u8?ch=71565725

Two thoughts

• This playlist encodes the channel number into the track duration field. That is unexpected for our parser and likely not what the author intended. I suggest to get this fixed in the playlist. ​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U#Extended_M3U ​https://github.com/afedchin/xbmc-addon-iptvsimple/wiki/IPTV-Simple-Home#description
• Our parser does not support playlists without channel numbers at the moment. That should be fixed sometime, but I have no plan on how that would sensibly work. As a workaround you could just move the channel number from the duration to the track title as "channel number - channel name".

[Karl Dietz <dekarl@…>]

In 7b8a16520fe700b6de0ff4389b923534b24386db/mythtv:

add another variant of M3U scraping to the IPTV recorder

Refs #12610

[Karl Egly]

I located this "channel number in duration field" as intended behavior of a Russian Kodi plug-in, so lets add it. Here's the machine translation from the Russian forum ​http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=156218&pid=1336794#pid1336794 Can you retest?

[Karl Egly]

No reply in more then 30 days, closing as fixed. (Even though unverified)