Review and setup of applications for IPTV on LG Smart TV

Connecting a tuner

To provide a TV with Smart TV capabilities, a so-called module (TV Box, set-top box, tuner) for Smart TV is connected to it. Since such a TV-Box fully replaces: WebOS, applications for watching TV channels on Internet television. IP-TV can be configured either standard or specially downloaded.

Pairing the TV and tuner itself is simple - use any cable to output picture and sound, connect two devices. This could be HDMI, VGA, RCA (tulips) and so on.

An overview of popular models can be found here.

SS IPTV – one of the pioneers of IPTV

The SS IPTV app is the first LG Smart World app to provide users with access to IPTV. It works on TVs with the “Smart TV” function, plays streaming video over the Internet (or over a local network), and is, in fact, a universal IPTV player.

The functionality of the application allows you to accumulate IPTV content from many operators, social networks, video hosting and cloud services, while guaranteeing fairly high quality image and sound.

Setting up IPTV on an LG TV

In Smart TV LG IPTV, the source of consumption of m3u playlists or specific channels is configured. Whether the channels will be paid or free depends on which source you will connect to. For example, a provider may provide a package of 150 channels for a certain amount, which is included in your tariff plan.

Otherwise, you can find free Internet TV on the Internet.

If a playlist is located on a remote server, then you need to provide a link to it in the appropriate section of the application you are using for IPTV on LG Smart. Set-top boxes in standard applications can limit the number of connected playlists. But usually 3-4 self-sorted lists are enough.

Step-by-step free setup of IPTV on TV-Box or Smart TV using a popular third-party client and source:

1. Go to the app store and download the VLC application - it is a multifunctional player.
2. Then, through any browser, enter “IPTV playlist from Github” in the search bar or follow the link:

https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv

1. Copy the link to any playlist. Link to the main one, 8000+ channels:

https://iptv-org.github.io/iptv/index.m3u

1. Open VLC and click on the “Broadcasts” or “Stream” section.
2. Enter the URL in the line that appears and click “OK.”
3. Then click on the playlist, wait for it to open and watch the channels for free online.

Peers.TV

To install the Peers.TV application, do the following:

1. Download and install this player on your device.
2. On LG TVs (2012-2013), the ViNTERA.TV application is located in the “Smart World” section, and after 2014 - in the “Apps&Games” section
3. Launch the application.
4. Add a link (address, url) to the playlist in the settings.
5. Select the desired channel.

The application includes:

• air channels
• TV program
• archive of missed programs available for a week

Nuances

There are many nuances and pitfalls that you can learn about when connecting TV broadcasting via the Internet:

1. There are many addresses on the network from which, after reading the information, the player will be able to play the playlist.
2. In addition to the VLC player, there are many programs for working with Internet TV channels. For example: SS IPTV, IPTV PRO, VIDEO PLAYER HD and others.
3. Installing applications on a Smart TV or set-top box can be done from a flash drive, having previously written the application installation file onto it.
4. The convenience of playlists is that if there is no access to one of the channels, the next one is automatically turned on until at least one working one is found.
5. Convenience of providing links to playlists instead of downloading the playlists themselves - if something breaks, a new version is uploaded and becomes available at the same network address. There is no need to reconfigure anything.
6. Some applications (for example, IPTVportal) work if you are directly or indirectly affiliated with this provider.
7. The SS IPTV service allows you to edit the provided playlists the way you request.
8. M3U is a file format that is needed to store playlists.
9. The M3U8 format is found on the Internet - Apple's live streaming format. This format supports VLC and a number of other video players without any problems.
10. M3U8 can be saved as M3U. To do this, open the file through a text editor, remove the remaining lines except the playlist path and save in M3U format.

ViNTERA.TV

To install the ViNTERA.TV application, do the following:

1. Download and install this player on your device.
2. On LG TVs (2012-2013), the ViNTERA.TV application is located in the “Smart World” section, and after 2014 - in the “Apps&Games” section
3. Launch the application.
4. Select the tab you are interested in with a list of channels to watch.

Functions of the buttons on the TV remote control for this application:

• “OK” button 1st press – Playback in small screen; 2nd press – Play in full screen, etc.
• The up/down buttons on the central large key switch TV channels in small screen mode.
• The “left/right” buttons switch sequentially the sections of the top menu: “Internet TV”, “TV provider”, “Favorites”, “Settings”.
• “Green button” Consecutive pressing of the green button switches screen sizes 4:3/14:9/16:9.
• “Yellow button” Pressing the yellow button adds a TV channel to “Favorites” if you are in the “Internet TV” section, or deletes a TV channel if you are in the “Favorites” section.
• “Blue button” Pressing the blue button turns 3D mode on or off from full screen mode if the TV channel is broadcasting in 3D mode.
• “Red button” Pressing the red button turns on the program guide of the TV channel if there is a red EPG icon next to it.
• Back or Return Button Back or Return – Pressing the button returns to the previous application screen or exits the application.

How to download and install

To upload your playlist to SS IPTV, you need to go into the program and click on the “Settings ” on the main screen.

SS IPTV can support several ways to download playlists based on user choice:

1. From the site using a one-time code (sheets that are located inside the program).
2. By reference (sheets located on external sources).

A person can have a different number of external sheets and only one internal sheet with the VoD or live stream format.

To download from a link, you need to go to the “Content” menu, select the “External playlists” submenu, then press the “Add” button . Enter the required sheet name in SS IPTV and indicate the link in the field, then save.

• The external sheet tile will be visible on the main screen of the program; it is loaded every time after selecting this content.
• To download via code, you need to go to the “General” section on the SS IPTV settings screen and click on the “Get code” button. A one-time code can be valid for 24 hours (or until another one is created).

• You need to enter it on the website and press the “Add device” button.

• Then select the playlist on your PC using the “Open” button and load it with the “Save” button.
• When the list is loaded, the “My Playlist” menu will be visible on the main screen of SS IPTV.

Identified channels are shown on the TV channel panel with logos. Loading another playlist will erase the old one. If you need to re-upload a sheet using the site, you do not need to request another code, taking into account that the cookies have been cleared.

For internal sheets, you can only select playlists that comply with the official m3u format standard. For external sheets you can use xspf, m3u, pls, asx formats. To load correctly you need the utf-8 code.

Where to get the best content for LG Smart TV

Features of the implementation of IPTV technology allow users to create free IPTV playlists of channels (rebroadcasts). You can find such playlists on a lot of different sites, but their value is quite low. This is due to the need to provide each recipient of such an IPTV stream with several megabits of traffic (which is not always available to such a relay), as well as the regular blocking of such “pirates” by IPTV operators who counter the illegal retransmission of their channels.

At the same time, free IPTV playlists must be constantly updated, regularly removing “dead” data from them, which is not always done.

The following sources with free playlists are currently available.

How to connect a third-party device

Modern devices are used to solve a variety of problems. If desired, the new device can be used as a monitor for a PC or game console. To display images on the screen from different sources, click on the “Source” button on the remote control.

You can also select the signal source from the menu. To enter the main menu, you need to click on the home button (it looks like a house). Several devices can be connected to the TV at the same time. Thanks to quick switching, it becomes possible to change them in two clicks.

How to set up the application

Now you just need to launch the SS IPTV program on your TV, find your provider in the list and activate the playlist.

• In addition to the sheets already installed at the beginning, you can also make your own. They are saved in the Settings menu and created by the user.
• External playlists can be uploaded to the “Content” menu. You just need to find the required playlist from the proposed list and click on the “Add” button.
• To receive internal playlists, you need to go to “Settings”, find the “General” menu and click “Get code”. The program will generate a code, after which you need to go to the “Playlist Editor” on the SS IPTV website, enter the received numbers and click “Add Equipment”. Open and save the file.
• Next, in SS IPTV on the TV you need to find a new menu called “My Playlist”. It is located in the “Settings” subsection.
• You can also configure other TV programs for IPTV.

You can learn about the correct setup from this video

Manual channel tuning

Very often the question arises of how to configure channels on an LG TV manually. To perform this action and set up a new device, you need:

1. Open settings.
2. Go to the “Channels” section.
3. Next, select “Manual setup”. After this, you can select the parameters for search manipulations, including choosing the range in which the reception is carried out.

Among the parameters that can be changed are frequency and signal source. Each characteristic can be changed gradually so as not to miss the desired channel. It is especially convenient to use a manual search when working with satellite television. If the required frequencies are known, then it is possible to perform all the necessary actions extremely quickly.

Playlists for the player

As you know, the operation of IPTV players is impossible without playlists, which are a list of IPTV channels (online broadcasts of IPTV technology) with accompanying technical data.

Typically, such playlists are in m3u format, but they are also found in xspf, asx or pls formats . Their structure typically consists of a playlist title (#EXTM3U), extended information about the IPTV media file ( #EXTINF ), and a global or local link to the media file (https://).