Not able to play a .m3u that works like a charm in VLC

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Hi

I am trying to play a .m3u in Kodi that works like a charm in VLC:

http://flus0.sanpedrowifi.com/live/cocina.SD.IRD/mono.m3u8

I have tried putting it in a text file and rename the file extenstion to .strm and also tried to play it through the IPTV.Simple PVR add-on without success.

Any idea??

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Well the m3u file doesn’t include the URL :wink:
So adding http://flus0.sanpedrowifi.com/live/cocina.SD.IRD before the playlist entries works.

Alternatively putting “http://flus0.sanpedrowifi.com/live/cocina.SD.IRD/mono.m3u8” into a .strm file also works.

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I don’t know why but putting “http://flus0.sanpedrowifi.com/live/cocina.SD.IRD/mono.m3u8” into a .strm file DOES NOT work for me (Rasp b+, OSMC 17.5)

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Did you just put that in as is? I just tried it and it is working

osmc@osmc:~$ cat /mnt/server/video/mono.strm
http://flus0.sanpedrowifi.com/live/cocina.SD.IRD/mono.m3u8

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Exactly like you…

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Enable debug logging and upload logs to find out whats wrong

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Hope it is ok because it is my first time uploading a log…
I think everything starts at line 236

Please take into account that there is neither audio nor video playing it with VideoPlayer and only audio with PAPlayer

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Hi,

Does it play if you disable Allow hardware acceleration?

Thanks Tom.

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Yes, it does!! (disabling Allow hardware acceleration for OMXPlayer)

What are the pros and cons of disabling it??

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Hi,

The stream will be now processed using cpu, not the gpu. You could try enabling MMAL and see if the stream plays.

If not I would re-enable when not watching this stream.

Thanks Tom.