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772 points vkdelta | 4 comments | 30 Mar 25 14:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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thundergolfer ◴[02 Apr 25 22:07 UTC] No.43562246[source]▶
One of those projects that has me wondering what I was doing instead of building this. The end result is great, and the technical details seem like they'd be interesting. TIL about Internet Protocol TV: https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv
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1. phantomathkg ◴[03 Apr 25 00:42 UTC] No.43563478[source]▶
What you see in that repo is not truly true IPTV[0].

What you see in the repo is a lot of different HLS manifest[1], which in turn pointed to different questionable sources of all the OTT streams around the world.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_IPTV_Forum [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming

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2. anjel ◴[03 Apr 25 05:03 UTC] No.43564945[source]▶
So the cable pirated TV to IPTV reflector streams are being re-pirated or maybe just Liberated?
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3. esskay ◴[03 Apr 25 08:45 UTC] No.43566737[source]▶
I've not looked at it in a few months but fairly sure its not pirated, its just online streams of FTA channels. All the UK ones for example are are just the UK's free to air broadcasters and someones figured out the urls to the feeds they use on their websites and apps.

Lots of the US and CA ones look to be the same sort of situation. You'll find most wont work without a VPN as they are geo blocked.

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4. phantomathkg ◴[04 Apr 25 00:48 UTC] No.43577197{3}[source]▶
Free to air in UK does not mean free to the whole world. For example BBC/Channel 4/Channel 5 are geofenced to UK only.