Went through the open issue backlog and verified each claim against
the live streams with check_channels.py / curl before touching
anything, rather than acting on the reports alone.
Moved to Invalid (2 attempts, both `gone`, re-verified by hand):
- Greece: Start, Thraki Net TV
- Slovakia: Doma, Dajto, Krimi, Markíza TN Live, Jojko (joining the
JOJ-family channels already Invalid - same upstream host, same
missing-channel pattern)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina: Sevdah
- Spain: Nova, La 7 CYLTV, Canal TE24
- USA: NASA TV Public
- USA + zz_news_en: CNN / CNN International - both point at
turnerlive.warnermediacdn.com/.../cnn_slate/..., which returns a
permanently frozen manifest (#EXT-X-PUBLISHED-TIME and
MEDIA-SEQUENCE identical across two fetches 8s apart, dated several
months in the past) - a live-looking HTTP 200 that check_channels.py
currently has no way to catch, since it never compares a URL against
its own earlier response. Also moved the alternate CNN entry in
zz_news_en.md (a raw.githubusercontent.com link that 404s outright).
- Not moved: N1 Bosna i Hercegovina (`disputed` - ffprobe found a real
stream behind the dead-looking HTTP response, needs a human) and
everything reported merely `unreachable`/`blocked` across these
lists - neither is strong enough evidence on its own, see
check_channels.py's own docstring.
Japan: added the Ⓖ marker to the 6 terrestrial channels on mov3.co
(NHK総合, 日本テレビ, テレビ朝日, TBSテレビ, テレビ東京, フジテレビ) -
confirmed HTTP 403 from here on all six, consistent with the
geo-restriction every other Ⓖ-marked channel in this repo already
documents. They were working `[>]` entries with no Ⓖ, which reads as
"this should work from anywhere" when it does not.
Left alone after checking (false alarms / already resolved, not a
list-file problem):
- Croatia HRT 1-4: already Ⓖ-marked and alive.
- Mongolia TenGer TV/TV5/TV9: all 40 Mongolia channels alive.
- Japan Willfonk/naori-test links: already Invalid on master.
- Several `unreachable` entries (Greece ART TV/Epirus TV 1, Croatia's
RTL family, half of Spain, Bosnia's BHT/Glas Drine/etc.) -
`unreachable` means "every attempt timed out or failed to connect
from here", not "confirmed gone" - too weak to act on without a
second opinion, and these didn't get one in this pass.
ran: python3 make_playlist.py (clean regen) + check_channels.py on
every touched list afterward to confirm nothing newly broke and the
moved channels no longer show up as working.
Issue #483: these circled-letter suffixes are in-list markers for
human readers (subscription-required, geo-blocked, YouTube-sourced,
etc.), but were leaking into the generated tvg-name verbatim (e.g.
tvg-name="Rai 1 Ⓖ"), breaking EPG matching for any provider keying
off channel name. Now stripped from tvg-name only; the display name
after the comma still shows the marker as before.
The 212.79.122.11:5014 UDP-relay server (1+1 Ukraina, Inter, 2+2, M1,
Mega, K1, Enter-Film, TET, ДІМ) refuses connections now. Fixed 9
channels with working sources (mostly stream.mcquack.net / antik.sk).
6 more on the same dead server (Bigudi, Novyi Kanal, ПлюсПлюс,
Ми — Україна, Оце ТБ, Піксель TV) had no replacement found - marked
Invalid. Also fixed/cleaned up entries on a separate dead
nashnet.tv/ott.blue/tvstitch.com cluster. Partial progress on #986.
Spain: Televisión Melilla's domain no longer resolves, marked
Invalid (#1012 - no working replacement found for it or Rioja TV).
- Turkey: TRT Belgesel's URL was dead, applied the new -dai path from
issue #810.
- Spain: the 185.189.225.150:85 server (Antena 3, Cuatro, Telecinco,
La Sexta, Neox, Nova, Mega, FDF, Boing, and a duplicate TV3 entry)
is entirely dead. Fixed Paramount Network via a working Pluto TV
source; moved the rest to Invalid since no replacement was found.
The TV3 entry was a pure duplicate of the already-working TV3Cat
entry, no loss removing it. Fixes#746, #749 (partially - Mediaset/
Atresmedia channels still need real replacements).
- Netherlands: NPO 1/2/3 have been dead since 2022 per #879, with no
replacement found anywhere; marked [x] with no URL, matching how
RTL 4/5/7/8 are already handled in the same file. Fixes#879.
Add ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes via tvg-country attribute
to all #EXTINF lines, enabling IPTV players to filter and display
channels by country.
Co-authored-by: Kálmán „KAMI” Szalai <kami911gmail.com>
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