SVT 1/2/24/Kunskapskanalen: the old ed2.cdn.svt.se host is fully retired
(plain 404, not a geo-block response). SVT's own site now serves live
channels via api.svt.se/videoplayer-api/video/ch-<id>, which points at
svt-live-channel.akamaized.net - confirmed current by fetching that API
live. The new URLs are still geo-blocked to Sweden (Akamai 403, not a
404), so the Ⓖ marker stays; this is a URL update, not a fix for the
geo-restriction itself. No unrestricted third-party mirror exists for
SVT (checked; other IPTV list maintainers hit the same block).
Öppna Kanalen Stockholm and Malmö: marked [x]. Solidtango (their
hosting platform) now requires per-session signed URLs platform-wide -
Stockholm's old unsigned URL returns 402 Payment Required. Malmö's
entire subdomain 404s on every path; their site now points at a
dedicated app plus cable-only distribution, no public web stream at
all.
Öppna Kanalen Skövde and Västmanlands TV were also researched: both
are alive, but only through freshly-signed URLs that expire in ~24h -
not left unchanged deliberately, since committing today's signed link
would just go dead again tomorrow. A durable fix would need scraping
their live pages (okskovde.solidtango.com/live/livetv and
vastmanland.solidtango.com/live/vastmanlands-television--2) for a
fresh link periodically, not a static list entry.
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>
Kálmán „KAMI” Szalai
PlaylistBot
KAMI