Certain IPTV Channels Not Working

When I used to use Sportz, I would have a must watch channel (has local MLB, NHL teams on it) and it was very sketchy with dropouts and buffering if I could get it at all. I contacted their customer service people and they were amazingly responsive. They got the channel running better within 24 hours. Not sure how, but it’s worth a try. Random channels now with Hypersonic are not solid, but may be the next day.

keep me updated on that, I might try it with my emby server. :+1:

going to try that this evening or tomorrow. With the emby server they provide epg’s for any broadcast or cable channels in my area so maybe I can map them together.

This is time consuming but you can mix and match, sort, toss out channels from multiple playlist and generate one customized epg and it also handles epg’s in same way.

@Miki I have a paid service and usually have absolutely zero issues from anything caused by speeds. I have ATT fiber and get close to 400 Mbps speed. I loaded a bunch of the Free M3u sources and EPG lists found on this site and find a good chunk of those don’t work. Maybe it’s because the paid service I use is well maintained. YMMV but I’m getting a Helluva good price for my paid IPTV Sub and have deleted all of my Free sources and EPG’s.

Agree with a lot of the Foreign Channels. But for my 18,000 Plus service I just hide all those foreign country channels in tivimate

Could you give a guide on how you downloaded it into the Downloader app and it saved as an m3u8? Would be interested in trying that out :+1: and perhaps loading the list into VLC or IPTV client. Cheers.

Found myself that individual links do go down rapid. Saving grace is new ones appear on a daily basis. Its the main reason Ive avoid making playlists from IPTVCat. I tend to copy an active links and view it via VLC for the duration of a program or event. Works quite well using this method.

@Miki

Thanks just downloaded channels, and added to Tivimate excellent :+1:

Indeed! I think IPTVCat strength is that new links for channels are available every day. Not ideal for creating playlists that you intend to keep. Very good for checking out individual active channels links on the day of a big event. You’re always guaranteed at least a few available options.

Yep, its all about updates. Some list you find havent been touched in years :woozy_face:

A list(im sure you have seen) ive been checking out is https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv/raw/master/streams/us.m3u Its rather lengthy but has a good all around selection and a really good list of local channels (US) . This list is tended to daily so it stays on my radar.

Yup. Its very good for UK football channels as there is always 5+links to the various FHD and UHD Premium Channels. Even as a back-up, IPTVCat is a decent resource to keep handy :+1:

Do you have EPG link for that playlist?

no I use other epg’s to populate channels that are working and I watch.

Miki has epg’s for every channel on earth and a few other planets :joy:

Any for Tralfamadore? :upside_down_face:

for the Vonnegut fans…

Don’t bother…it’s fictional, just being silly :crazy_face: I meant to mention the golf tourney…when I looked at where it was being played I saw Vallarta in the name & looked it up…just north of you, if I remember correctly :thinking: Ya gonna go?

Do you get buffering abd skipping on most of the better channels in IPTV Cat?