How to Play IPTV on VLC Player

Download and install VLC Media Player

After installing VLC open the Preferences tab from the Tools Menu. (CTRL+P or Command+P on MAC)

In the Preferences window choose the “All” Radio button below “Show Settings”

You shoud now see a advanced view like shown below, now navigate to the FFmpeg Settings.

The FFmpeg Settings are located in the “Video codes” subgroup

Make sure Hardware decoding is set to “Disable”

Now Navigate back to Input / Codecs and scroll down to the end of the page

You shoud find “Network Caching” set this to 3000.

Scroll up a bit till you find the “Network Settings” under “Network Settings” find “MTU of the network interface”

Set “MTU of the network interface” to either 1500 for Cable or 1498 for ADSL

After setting the MTU press “Save” and close the window.

VLC needs to be restarted to make the changes we did work.(CTRL+Q or Command Q on MAC)

Open up VLC Media Player again.

Now we want to load in our Playlist there are 2 diffrent ways to do so.

1. Copy the playlist URL to your clipboard (CTRL + C or command + C on MAC)

and choose “Open Locaction from clipboard via the Media Tab in the top left(Shortcut : CTRL + V or command + V on MAC)

Insert your URL link that you got from us now like this :

Please note that the output in vlc needs to be “ts” (output=ts) rather than “hls”

Or :

Simply Drag & Drop the downloaded m3u file into your VLC or open it via Media > Open File > “Choose your .m3u file”

You now shoud be able to watch iptv

Inorder to switch Channels go to “View” in the Menu strip and navigate to “Playlist”(CTRL + L or command + L on MAC)

You will now see a list of Channels available to choose from you can use the search function to find a Channel.

Done

You know shoud be good to go and watch your favourite Tv Channels using VLC Media Player !

More shorted tutorial for VLC

This tutorial will guide you through the simple setup instruction for Windows computers.

1. Download and Install VLC Player from Videolan.org
2. Run VLC Player -> Click onto: ‘Media’ -> Select: ‘Open Network Stream’ -> Go to the ‘Network Tab’.
3. Paste your unique ‘Playlist URL’ into the Network URL field, then click onto the ‘Play’ button.
4. In order to view the full channel list click onto ‘View’ -> Playlist.

Watching Live TV after initial setup

1. Run VLC Player -> Click onto: ‘Media’ -> Select: ‘Open Network Stream’ -> Go to the ‘Network Tab’.
2. Ensure unique playlist URL is entered into the ‘Network URL’ field.
3. Click onto the ‘Play’ button.
4. In order to view the full channel list click onto ‘View’ -> Playlist.