

Only channels which URL column starts with are included in the playlist.Ĭhannels which are not in HD are marked with an Ⓢ.Ĭhannels which use GeoIP blocking are marked with a Ⓖ.Ĭhannels which are live Youtube channels are marked with a Ⓨ. The m3u8 playlist is generated by make_playlist.py, using the. Dailymotion: Same criteria as for youtube.Youtube: As long as the channel is live and its URL doesn't change (check the age of the stream, the number of viewers.).

It can be quite hard to find up to date URLs, here's a list of sources: No channels made for a country and funded by a different country.No channels dedicated to any particular political party.No channels dedicated to any particular religion.Only channels which are officially provided for free (via DVB-S, DVB-T, analog, etc.).If on the other hand it is provided for free to everybody in a particular country, then it should be in this playlist. If a channel is normally only available via commercial subscriptions it has nothing to do in this playlist. Only one URL per channel (no +1, no alternate feeds, no regional declinations).As much as possible channels should be in HD, not SD.The main goals for this playlist are listed below. Pluto TV (English, Spanish, French, Italian).One could probably argue that the m3u-playlists prouced by VLC nowdays shouldn't even be allowed to be called m3u since they are not compatible with the classic m3u-format.This is an M3U playlist for free TV channels around the World. VLC should have made it a user option to use either classic encoding (WINamp style) or this new encoding style. The interesting question is how many mp3-player systems that are incompatible with this %-encoding. If not already encoded, it is converted to UTF-8, and any characters not part of the basic URL character set are escaped as hexadecimal using percent-encoding"īut in the case of VLC-playlists it's mainly the space character that is replaced by %20 so it's not primarily a matter of internationalisation. "The URL path name can also be specified by the user in the local writing system. The Wikipedia chapter of Internationalized URL:s shed some light upon this: Replacing characters by the percantage charcter followed by numbers is not in itself called "URL". So it's not the file format but the way to encode paths this way I wanted to know the name of. Thanks Rémi but I meant what it's called when %-signs and numbers are used instead of blankspace in paths.
