crazed 9.6
10-05-2018, 08:42 AM
I do not know if anyone has wondered about this or not, but here is the reasoning behind this...
VLC is a great and powerful player, but it has it's draw backs when it comes to IPTV channels and them drawback make it a mediocre Player for IPTV channels.
I said it is a powerful Player and it is, for example, it is a Player and an editor, and can arrange your channels and even rename them, and can even do that while viewing iptv channels simultaneously ... but that is about as far as that goes.
It does not carry the extra tags needed for things like EPG or Description tags and etc... Logos I think work, but anything like gruop editing and etc do not.
In fact if you take a Generic m3u with options Playlist and put it on the VLC, then it will automatically change to a normal (without options) generic m3u list, no more tags. It will erase any editing you had previously done thru a Windows Notepad Editor.
Some other things too that work against the VLC Player for iptv channels, such as no EPG and that is a big one with members , so is evident in the discussion forums :)
So what has been happening in this m3u forum, is the VLC gets very little attention as afar as people actually using it for iptv, so keeping that VLC separate from all others helps to keep the main forum section here open for Perfect Player and other Player discussions and Sticky threads. I think that works best.
ProgTV and other Players are here too, all except the VLC... and the VLC does have some literature posted and etc, so it kinda helps keeping the Sticky count down and things more easily found in this main forum sub section, with the VLC separated.
I did also cleaned up the Stickies in here. Mostly just merged a few Stickies into the one... "The Players" sticky thread, and with Perfect Player gets the bigger piece of the space here is Sticky threads, as due to popularity and use.
I am keeping up on kens newest additions too,with his work, and sticky them and unsticky some outdated ones .. Kens if any thing needed or I unstuck something or did not stuck something , please do say bud. In fact I will get you some access to moderate this here m3u forum, which means you will have ability to stick and unstuck what you need done. Give me some time on that thou, tinie is on the road (or on many planes) currently. I think he is in south east europe somewhere presently . We will need him home before this can take place :)
Anyway, that is why VLC has it's own sub-sub-forum, not because its the best for what we use, but to keep the main page here open for about what works best for our needs :)
About the only other Player I seen work better then Perfect Player is the Dreamlink/Formuler Playlist Portal and it's onboard Player. The user interface makes that deal :)
ProgTv is also a decent Player and ranks right up there too :)
VLC is a great and powerful player, but it has it's draw backs when it comes to IPTV channels and them drawback make it a mediocre Player for IPTV channels.
I said it is a powerful Player and it is, for example, it is a Player and an editor, and can arrange your channels and even rename them, and can even do that while viewing iptv channels simultaneously ... but that is about as far as that goes.
It does not carry the extra tags needed for things like EPG or Description tags and etc... Logos I think work, but anything like gruop editing and etc do not.
In fact if you take a Generic m3u with options Playlist and put it on the VLC, then it will automatically change to a normal (without options) generic m3u list, no more tags. It will erase any editing you had previously done thru a Windows Notepad Editor.
Some other things too that work against the VLC Player for iptv channels, such as no EPG and that is a big one with members , so is evident in the discussion forums :)
So what has been happening in this m3u forum, is the VLC gets very little attention as afar as people actually using it for iptv, so keeping that VLC separate from all others helps to keep the main forum section here open for Perfect Player and other Player discussions and Sticky threads. I think that works best.
ProgTV and other Players are here too, all except the VLC... and the VLC does have some literature posted and etc, so it kinda helps keeping the Sticky count down and things more easily found in this main forum sub section, with the VLC separated.
I did also cleaned up the Stickies in here. Mostly just merged a few Stickies into the one... "The Players" sticky thread, and with Perfect Player gets the bigger piece of the space here is Sticky threads, as due to popularity and use.
I am keeping up on kens newest additions too,with his work, and sticky them and unsticky some outdated ones .. Kens if any thing needed or I unstuck something or did not stuck something , please do say bud. In fact I will get you some access to moderate this here m3u forum, which means you will have ability to stick and unstuck what you need done. Give me some time on that thou, tinie is on the road (or on many planes) currently. I think he is in south east europe somewhere presently . We will need him home before this can take place :)
Anyway, that is why VLC has it's own sub-sub-forum, not because its the best for what we use, but to keep the main page here open for about what works best for our needs :)
About the only other Player I seen work better then Perfect Player is the Dreamlink/Formuler Playlist Portal and it's onboard Player. The user interface makes that deal :)
ProgTv is also a decent Player and ranks right up there too :)