Welcome to the site Free-software-forever.com! In this article, we will talk about IPTV, or rather I will tell you about how to watch IPTV on a computer, what is an IPTV playlist, where to download such a playlist, and how to use it to watch IPTV channels on a computer.
What is IPTV?
IPTV ( Internet Protocol Television ) is a technology that allows you to transfer video content over IP ( Internet Protocol ). In simple words, it is watching television channels over the Internet.
IPTV can be used on TVs with support for SMART TV, as well as on conventional computers. Today, as I already noted, I will tell you how to watch IPTV on a computer.
I must say right away that in order to use IPTV on a computer, you don’t need to perform any complicated actions to watch IPTV on a computer, it’s enough to install and configure an IPTV media player, in other words, even an ordinary computer user can handle it. How all this is done, of course, I will show a little lower.
What is an IPTV playlist?
IPTV playlist is a selection of channels for playback. This playlist looks like a regular file. The most common M3U format ( plain text file with the extension .M3U ). Thus, if you need only certain IPTV channels, for example, with topics of interest to you, then you just need to download the playlist you need and connect it to the media player that plays IPTV. Where to download the IPTV playlist, and how to connect it to the media player, I will also show a little lower.
Setting up IPTV on a computer – step by step instructions
Now let’s look at the process of setting up IPTV on a computer. It includes just a few simple steps.
Step 1 – Install and Configure IPTV Player
To watch IPTV on a computer, you need a special player with IPTV support. As an example, I will give two such players: VLC Media Player and IP-TV Player ( this is a VLC shell ).
Today I will show an example of watching IPTV on a computer using the VLC Media Player since this player is very popular.
The note!
VLC Media Player is a free, open-source, cross-platform media player. It supports almost all multimedia files, allows you to play DVD, Audio CD, VCD and streaming unencrypted video, as well as VLC has a lot of additional functionality, for example, this media player can convert video from one format to another very high quality, I talked about this in detail in the article “ How to convert WMV to MP4 for free and without loss of quality? “.
First, we need to install VLC Media Player.
Note! If you already have VLC Media Player installed on your computer, then you do not need to perform the following actions, you can immediately proceed to the next step.
In this particular case, I show the installation on the Windows 10 operating system, although VLC Media Player is implemented for both Linux and Mac OS X, I talked about how to install VLC Media Player on Linux in the article – Installing VLC Media Player on Linux Mint.
First, download VLC Media Player from videolan.org official website. Then run the downloaded file.
The VLC installation process is simple, it is no different from installing other programs on Windows.
After starting the installer, first, select the language and click OK.
