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UK IPTV (FTA) - nedge2k - 2014-11-12
Bare with me on this, there's a lot of information and misinformation scattered about the place so I thought it best to put it all here and see what anyone can come up with!
In the UK, there are two FTA (free-to-air) TV services; Freeview (DVB-T/T2) and Freesat (DVB-S/S2).
On DVB-T/T2, there are various channels which can instruct an MHEG-IC compatible device (2012+ Freeview HD box) to grab an IPTV stream (MHEG is the interactive/red button stuff). These channels are provided by Connect TV, now owned by Arqiva who provide the DVB-T/T2 broadcast/transmission services. There is also the upcoming Freeview Connect service that will also use MHEG-IC. The channels can act as portals to multiple IPTV streams - live or on-demand (think iPlayer, 4oD etc.) or can just link to one stream so it appears to be a regular channel (like Motors TV). Now, although regular consumers have to have a Freeview HD box (and probably something else for Freeview Connect), we shouldn't. These streams don't appear to be listed anywhere so for starters, some kind of MHEG-IC software layer is required to get them - or even just a decoder which can dump a list. However, although the MHEG-IC channels are broadcast over DVB-T (DVB-T2 currently not required), none of the existing PVR backends seem to support MHEG-IC - so we're missing out!
The big UK broadcasters have recently announced a large investment into Freeview Connect so these hidden IPTV streams are set to get better and better.
Freesat also have a similar service called Freetime. It uses a combination of HTML5 apps and HbbTV.
So, all this cool extra content is out there but hidden away in consumer boxes - Kodi seems like the perfect home for it! At the very least, all that should be needed for the Freeview stuff is a regularly updated list of IPTV streams, we just need an MHEG-IC decoder. Anyone up to the challenge?
Info in the MHEG-5 broadcast profile: http://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_es/202100_202199/202184/02.01.01_50/es_202184v020101m.pdf
Std MHEG-5 lib (doesn't mention MHEG-IC comparability): http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/RedButton_MHEG_Engine
I've also emailed Arqiva on the off-chance they'll give them up!
RE: UK IPTV (FTA) - nedge2k - 2016-03-04
So 18mths or so on and there's still no software to support MHEG-IC on the PC...
Luckily for UK TV viewers, especially lovers of Motors TV now it's been pulled from regular DVB-T2, I managed to track down the official IPTV stream URLs and have put them in M3U format so they can be used as a Media Portal "IPTV Card".
Code:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:0,CCTV News
http://stream.arqiva.tv/cctv-news
#EXTINF:0,CCTV-4
http://stream.arqiva.tv/cctv-4
#EXTINF:0,CCTV-9 Documentary
http://stream.arqiva.tv/cctv-9
#EXTINF:0,Chatbox
http://stream.arqiva.tv/chatbox
#EXTINF:0,Gay Network
http://stream.arqiva.tv/gaynet
#EXTINF:0,Motors TV
http://stream.arqiva.tv/motorstv
#EXTINF:0,QVC Beauty
http://stream.arqiva.tv/qvc-beau
#EXTINF:0,QVC Extra
http://stream.arqiva.tv/qvc-extra
#EXTINF:0,QVC Plus
http://stream.arqiva.tv/qvc-plus
#EXTINF:0,QVC Style
http://stream.arqiva.tv/qvc-style
#EXTINF:0,Racing UK (Preview)
http://stream.arqiva.tv/racinguk
#EXTINF:0,RTŠ”
http://stream.arqiva.tv/rt-doc
#EXTINF:0,SBN TV (Sonlife)
http://stream.arqiva.tv/sbntvuk
#EXTINF:0,Vintage TV
http://stream.arqiva.tv/vintagetv
#EXTINF:0,JSTV 1 (Promo)
http://stream.arqiva.tv/vod/JSTV-1/jstv_promo_01.ts
#EXTINF:0,JSTV 2 (Promo)
http://stream.arqiva.tv/vod/JSTV-2/jstv_promo_01.ts
#EXTINF:0,kykNET (Promo)
http://stream.arqiva.tv/vod/KYKNET-MAIN/kykmain_promo_01.ts
#EXTINF:0,kykNET Musiek (Promo)
http://stream.arqiva.tv/vod/KYKNET-MUZ/kykmuz_promo_01.ts
#EXTINF:0,abn
http://stream.arqiva.tv/abntv
#EXTINF:0,Passion
http://stream.arqiva.tv/passion
#EXTINF:0,Showcase
http://stream.arqiva.tv/showcaseRE: UK IPTV (FTA) - zag - 2016-03-07
Very cool! Nice to see these streams become accessible.