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put together an impressive
bouquet of channels. For
example,we combined sev-
eral channels from a HOT-
BIRD (13.0E) transponder
that carries Portuguese digi-
tal terrestrial TV. These eight
channels were now available
throughout the entire house
via the network and could be
received with the Raspberry
Pi as well as other devices
(PCs, Tablets, Consoles, etc.)
as long as they could work
UDP streams. It would, of
course, be especially easy if
these devices had XBMC in-
stalled on them.
The *.m3u Playlist format
is quite simple and looks like
this:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:0,RTP-1
#EXT VLCOPT:network-
caching=1000
udp://@224.2.2.2:1001
#EXTINF:0,RTP-2
#EXT VLCOPT:network-
caching=1000
udp://@224.2.2.2:1002
#EXTINF:0,SIC
#EXT VLCOPT:network-
caching=1000
udp://@224.2.2.2:1003
#EXTINF:0,TVI
#EXT VLCOPT:network-
caching=1000
udp://@224.2.2.2:1004
The first line identifies the
file as an EXTM3U Playlist
and must be available ex-
actly like that. Next there are
three lines for each channel:
#EXTINF offers “Extended
Info” so that XBMC shows
the name of the channel
rather than the file name and
IP address. After the “0” can
be any text you want, in our
case we used the channel
name. The next line sets up
a buffer to prevent the video
from being interrupted from
brief network hang-ups. With
larger values channel surfing
would take longer. We used
values between 100 and
1000. The third line identifies
the protocol (udp://@) and
the corresponding IP address
with port number.) Naturally,
these values have to match
the IP addresses and port
numbers in TSReader Pro.
These three lines are re-
peated for each individual
channel. To create and/or
edit this file, any preferred
text editor can be used since
this is nothing more than a
