- TV 7 Albania: vs.sednastream.com:1936 returns HTTP 403. Found the
station's current feed via its official site's live embed (tv7.al ->
swf.tulix.tv iframe), backed by bozztv.com. Verified alive via
check_channels.py (3/3 ok), real HLS media playlist with rolling segments.
- TV Apollon: the stored token in the old URL is stale (404, wrong path
casing). Found the current token+path hardcoded in the station's own
live player JS on apollon.tv. Verified alive via check_channels.py
(3/3 ok), real live playlist with current-timestamped segments.
Researched but left unchanged (genuinely unfixable within reasonable
effort - documented for future reference):
- Albania: Kanali 7, Alpo TV, Panorama TV, Report TV - official sites
either have no public video stream, are behind a Cloudflare JS
challenge, or the stream host itself is unreachable.
- Bulgaria (bTV, Nova TV, Bulgaria On Air, Nova News, BNT1-4): official
infrastructure appears to be Bulgaria-ISP-local or geo-blocked; Nova's
own embed uses a per-request, IP-bound, time-limited signed URL, not
usable as a static playlist entry.
- Georgia (Adjara TV, Maestro TV, Mtavari Arkhi, GDS, Pos TV, Obieqtivi):
official domains are down, parked/expired, or return gateway errors
even on the broadcaster's own site.
Regenerated playlist.m3u8 and playlists/playlist_albania.m3u8 via
make_playlist.py.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Enus8N247jHM5r5Som5JuU
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.
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>