tvg-id

[NezbednikSK]

Uhh, so I would like your opinion.
I added Markíza, Doma and Dajto.
They only provide an SD stream for free and want you to pay for the HD stream.
Technically, this is not illegal as it is streamed off their servers.
Should the channels be removed / kept in SD?

[freetv332]

Can you access the HD streams without paying?

[NezbednikSK]

Yep

[NezbednikSK]

The URLs are formatted the same as for some other channels, so with editing the URLs you can access them without paying.
Normally, you can only access the SD one for free. IMO we should remove them, as they are region-locked and the channel is officially pay-tv but their site offers a SD stream.

Let me make a PR that removes them.

[NezbednikSK]

• Would you mind me rewriting the RTVS forwarder in PHP? RunKit is just so slow, ;-)

[NezbednikSK]

Also what about IDs for channels? tvg-id, I mean

[freetv332]

you mean channel numbers?

[ghost]

Nope, i meant IDs. They are used to show the correct EPG. Might be a good idea to implement them somehow, as (G), (S) and (Y) break them when not specified.

[NezbednikSK]

Oh yeah it is me, my alt account,

[freetv332]

It sounds like a good idea, but where do you find these IDs?

[NezbednikSK]

https://github.com/iptv-org/epg/blob/master/codes.csv

[freetv332]

OK let's add them. You can start modifying the lists, I'll adapt the program to include them in the playlist.

[NezbednikSK]

Could you try making the script check if the ID is specified? Y'know, adding IDs to 700+ channels is quite the task.

[ghost]

https://github.com/iptv-org/epg/blob/master/codes.csv

404, you must use this url now: https://iptv-org.github.io/epg/index.html

[ghost]

Could you try making the script check if the ID is specified? Y'know, adding IDs to 700+ channels is quite the task.

Script for format like in this pull request #96

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import os
import re
for filename in sorted(os.listdir(".")):
    if filename == "README.md" or not filename.endswith(".md"):
        continue
    with open(filename, encoding='utf-8') as markup_file:
        group = filename.replace(".md", "").title()
        for line in markup_file:
            if "<h1>" in line.lower() and "</h1>" in line.lower():
                group = re.sub('<[^<>]+>', '', line.strip())
            if not "[>]" in line:
                continue
            split = line.split("|")
            try:
                epg_line = split[5].strip()
            except:
                epg_line = ''
            if not epg_line:
                print("EPG not found in file '{}' for channel '{}'".format(filename, split[2].strip()))

[NezbednikSK]

nice one!

[KAMI911]

Could we add EPG support? AFAIK we have to add an another field to md files. I can manage to add that field if it is in the channel line and change the python code too.
Should I create a separated epg branch for testing and implementing, or an cloned repo? Could someone add EPG ids to *.md files?
Thanks!

[NezbednikSK]

I'm up!

[KAMI911]

I started to add EPG id / tvg-id here:
https://github.com/Free-TV/IPTV/tree/epg
Playlist is here:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Free-TV/IPTV/epg/playlist.m3u8
Should I add something more like links to EPG XML files somehow, or this is enough to start use the tvg-id? The updated python script can work with and without EPG id.
I added tvg-id to few Hungarian channels. What is your opinion? What is the next task? If this provides a good solution and we got a few lists with tvg-id I can merge it to the master.

[NezbednikSK]

sounds good! i guess it's a matter of adding IDs for every channel now :)

[NezbednikSK]

and since they're IDs, https://github.com/iptv-org/epg could be used alongside the playlist to show the EPG itself

[KAMI911]

@NezbednikSK: I updated the Hungarian file, could you add more for testing?

[KAMI911]

Added x-tvg-url support.
@NezbednikSK

[NezbednikSK]

Sure!

[NezbednikSK]

#184

[KAMI911]

Thank you!

[KAMI911]

It seems it is working with external EPG. Could you add more channels tvg-ids?

[KAMI911]

Added 3a220e1
@NezbednikSK , @freetv332 , @riqueenz
Could you contribute additional EPG ids?
I used https://iptv-org.github.io/ page and the search on this page.
It would be nice to finish this ASAP then merge into the master branch. What are your opinions?

[NezbednikSK]

on it

[KAMI911]

Do you mind if I close this issue? Since the main task has solved to have EPG id support.

[NezbednikSK]

i guess