When writing this article, I systematically organized my own live broadcast sources, updated the content of the "live broadcast source URL" in the network disk, and added all the tools mentioned in this article. If you have already obtained it, you may wish to update it. See the end of the article for how to obtain it.
This article will solve the problem of using live broadcast sources from the following aspects:
About 40 netizens use live broadcast sources for their own use;
Live source search engine
How to detect and edit live broadcast sources
Tools for converting live source formats locally and online
Method to convert local files of live broadcast source to online URL
But what this article and the future will not cover:
Capture and production of live broadcast sources
Through search, you can find high-quality live broadcast sources and simply perform secondary processing, which is a time-saving and labor-saving approach. I hope everyone will not spend too much energy on the tool level.
Apple released a revolutionary VR product, and I had no choice but to fill the gap of live TV that no one watched.
If you want to watch live TV comfortably, it is very important to be able to modify the live broadcast source.
Although we can search various live broadcast sources from the Internet, the quality varies. Sometimes after using it for a while, it becomes stuck and ineffective.
If you are a friend who has the habit of organizing, you may not be used to the number, sorting, and classification of ready-made live broadcast sources... I hope you can edit the live broadcast sources to better suit your own or your family's viewing habits.
Therefore, it is necessary to dabble in methods such as searching, detecting, editing, and format conversion of live broadcast sources, so as to "customize" live broadcast sources that you are satisfied with.
1. Understand the content specifications of live broadcast sources
In fact, I have only used m3u, and I only learned about other formats after looking at the live broadcast source file format conversion tool. Of course, what I mean by "file format" is not this, but the file content of m3u: the code of a channel consists of several parts. After all, if you want to edit the live broadcast source, you must first understand what you want to change in the live broadcast source.
Open a common live broadcast source on the Internet. His channel content consists of the following parts:
#EXTINF:-1
tvg-id=”CCTV1″ tvg-name=”CCTV1″
tvg-logo=”https://epg.112114.xyz/logo/CCTV1.png”
group-title=”CCTV”
These are channel sorting, name, logo and classification information, the default is enough; and a simple live broadcast source can only have "channel name + English comma + URL", similar to this:
Therefore, if the live broadcast source found is very simple and we want to match it with the channel logo and EPG program list, we can use this website:
The live broadcast source file format we usually use is m3u or txt. But if the player you are using requires other formats, you need to use the conversion tool Telelist (it will alert you to viruses, so you can decide whether to use it or not).
Mac computer users can use online conversion tools, such as this one:
3. Check the validity of the live broadcast source
When searching for live broadcast sources, the files provided by some big guys often contain hundreds or thousands of channels. As time goes by, if they are not maintained in time, there will be a large number of invalid channels. Therefore, at this time, we can use the IPTV checker tool to detect which live broadcast sources can no longer be played, and only save valid live broadcast sources.
4. Edit live broadcast source files
Whether it is txt, m3u, or other formats of live broadcast source files, you can open them with Notepad and then edit them.
If we find multiple live broadcast sources, after completing the validity check, we can combine the multiple live broadcast sources into one.
There may be a situation here: the channel names of some live broadcast sources do not match the playback addresses, and the file content may need to be modified manually.
As shown in the picture above, the channel name is CCTV4K, but the actual broadcast is Jiangsu Satellite TV.
In addition, although Telelist can eliminate duplicates, if the channel names are the same but the playback addresses are different, they will still be regarded as different sources. If you have obsessive-compulsive disorder, you need to manually eliminate weight. This will test your EXCEL level.
5. Add channel live source separately
When editing the live broadcast source we need, we may encounter a situation where the playback quality of a single channel is not good and the playback URL needs to be changed. At this time, you can use the live broadcast source search engine below to select a URL with better playback quality.
Ordinarily, this should be the end of writing. However, there are still many inconveniences in converting live broadcast sources into local files. Whether it is importing to TV or mobile phone, it is very troublesome. I wonder if there are any friends who have used QNAP to build Xteve. Did the feeling of not being able to find the absolute address of the local file come over immediately? !
Most live broadcast sources on the Internet are online URLs, so how do we convert local files into online files and generate online URLs?
This requires the use of the online software source code hosting service platform GitHub or Code Cloud, choose either one.
Taking GitHub as an example, register first and create a repository
Then upload the m3u file you edited. Do not write the file name in Chinese, otherwise the URL will be garbled and unrecognizable.
After the upload is completed, click on the uploaded file and then click "Raw" to see the URL (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nomad70/iptv/main/aptv2.m3u).
By the way, if you encounter that the live broadcast source from GitHub cannot be opened, you can consider adding a proxy URL (https://ghproxy.com/) in front of the link, which may work wonders.
Don't ask, I don't know even if you ask, -_-||.
To obtain the live broadcast sources and software tools mentioned in the text, please go to the backend of the "What's Fun" official account to reply: Live TV
Okay, if you see this and find it useful, just follow it.
The next issue may record my tortuous experience of using QNAP to set up Xteve and Plex to watch live TV. The versatility is not strong, so don’t expect it.
The following are some live streaming sources and tools mentioned in the text
Thank you to everyone on the Internet for your hard work~
[It is said that there are 7000+m3u8 channels built-in, but I tried it and most of them cannot be played. Just think of it as supplementing the live broadcast channels]
An ordinary person who likes to use fun to resist mediocrity; often writes about his own interests; so you will see technology, digital, entertainment, credit cards, Internet... Refuse to be high-sounding and don't be a pseudo-expert; make professional life-like and biochemistry interesting; well, that's it~
