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M3U player: add your playlist

An M3U playlist is a list of channels and videos that your IPTV provider gives you as a link, or sometimes as a file. Tivelio reads it and builds your catalogue from it.

What you need

  • the address of the playlist, for example http://example.com/playlist.m3u, or the playlist file itself.

Add the playlist

  1. On the first launch, after the notice, choose M3U playlist. Later, open Accounts in the app menu and add an account.
  2. Give the playlist a name.
  3. Enter the address of the playlist. On devices that allow it, you can choose a local file instead.
  4. Confirm: Tivelio downloads the playlist and imports its channels and videos.

A large playlist can take a moment to import the first time.

M3U or Xtream?

If your provider also gives you an Xtream access (a server address, a username and a password), prefer it: the programme guide and catch-up come with an Xtream account, when your provider offers them, and a plain M3U playlist does not provide them in Tivelio today. See how to add an Xtream account and the full comparison, Xtream Codes or M3U?.

If the import fails

  • open the address of the playlist in a browser on a computer: if it does not download, ask your provider;
  • check that the address is complete, with its parameters;
  • if you typed https://, try the address exactly as your provider gave it. When a server does not answer on the scheme you typed, Tivelio tries the other one and tells you when it falls back to http.

Tivelio and Tivelio Pro

Tivelio is free; Tivelio Pro adds picture-in-picture, playback that continues outside the player and in the background (phone and tablet), resume at startup and adding a device by QR code. One licence for 5 devices, on every system: Android, Android TV, Chromebook, Fire TV, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Windows, Mac and Linux.