Without venturing into pirate territory, I am trying to expand my streaming options (and my knowledge of how they work) using IPTV streams in Kodi. Some, like the NZ and Oz Freeview streams, work well. Others are less clear to me. When a stream is FTA and plays on Chrome or VLC, I’m not sure what prevents it from doing so in Kodi.
Most recently I have run into some FTA playlists that use transport stream fragments or files and I can’t get these to work at all. I’m also not sure if they are legal. It is hard to get clear information sometimes. They are FTA and free to use but the .ts format makes me wonder. Does this also have legitimate uses or is it only used by pirates? Why use it at all?
In any case I can’t seem to get them to play correctly. In VLC they either crash or just play for a few seconds then switch to another stream. In Kodi some play briefly then stop. What am I missing here?
