2021-03-13, 12:24 AM
Hi all,
This one is going to take a tiny bit to explain :
My IPTV provider has, on top of its live channels, a large collection of VOD.
The problem is, when importing those into NextPVR and setting <sendVOD> to true, the huge quantity of data/channels is hard to stomach for Kodi or even for the default web UI on NextPVR.
In order to bypass the issue, I've created a simple script called m3u2strm
What it does is to generate a directory structure containing strm files for each stream available in an m3u file.
It will create a individual folders for each group in the m3u and then create individual strm files in each group folder.
The result is a simple directory structure that you can share with Kodi . You can browse it like any other file system share you would store your videos on but instead of holding the actual media, it just has strm files that point to the media remotely.
I thought I would share it here in case someone wants to give it a go.
Its written in PHP and requires "composer" to download the dependencies.
You can find it here : https://github.com/ggiraudon/m3u2strm
Let me know if I can help or if you have any suggestions on how to make it better.
This one is going to take a tiny bit to explain :
My IPTV provider has, on top of its live channels, a large collection of VOD.
The problem is, when importing those into NextPVR and setting <sendVOD> to true, the huge quantity of data/channels is hard to stomach for Kodi or even for the default web UI on NextPVR.
In order to bypass the issue, I've created a simple script called m3u2strm
What it does is to generate a directory structure containing strm files for each stream available in an m3u file.
It will create a individual folders for each group in the m3u and then create individual strm files in each group folder.
The result is a simple directory structure that you can share with Kodi . You can browse it like any other file system share you would store your videos on but instead of holding the actual media, it just has strm files that point to the media remotely.
I thought I would share it here in case someone wants to give it a go.
Its written in PHP and requires "composer" to download the dependencies.
You can find it here : https://github.com/ggiraudon/m3u2strm
Let me know if I can help or if you have any suggestions on how to make it better.