project-management-only/home-tv-station#8: Figure Out Streaming to Kodi

Taking a quick poke about on the net, it looks like the most common approach is to add IPTV Simple Client

However, it requires a .m3u playlist describing a list of channels.

Although you'd probably normally maintain that manually, it'd be nice to have the container at least offer one up

Ahh, this is more complex than expected - in fact, I've been caught out by this before.

We can't just generate a M3U which looks like this:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,one
one.m3u8

Because Kodi needs an absolute path.

So, we need to prefix it. I've added env var HTTP_BASEURL to make it possible to describe what that should be.

That being said, Kodi's currently choking on the HLS stream (it plays for a bit then sticks - looks like it fell too far behind on the manifest), so I'm going to try switching over to using RTMP quickly

That's working better. Committed and pushed.

I think though, rather than relying on the autogenerated one, best practice will probably be to mount a manually created one into the container.

For example:

apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: tv-station-config
  namespace: tv-station  
data:
  allowlist.txt:
  blocklist.txt: |
    Prison_School
  channels.m3u: |
    #EXTM3U
    #EXTINF:-1,benstv/one
    rtmp://192.168.3.22:1935/benstv/one

Doing it this way will mean that, if I decide to push multiple channels in, I can trivially update/manage the list.

So, basically, the answer here is:

• Define a channels.m3u
• Configure the IPTV Simple Client