Understanding of M3u playlists

by xgort

I am newer to IPTV and have learned a lot. I am trying to educate myself on M3u files and playlists. Are these essentially TV Guide looking options and a user would type in their assigned M3u file location? Am I close to understanding this? If so, I assume there are several different guides that I can choose from...including maybe Mayfair Guide. Do I have this right? THANKS!.

suley2

M3U in simple is a playlist of channels, think playlist of music tracks and instead of loading a track you load a tv stream. It does not have EPG, some of the TV Guides addons or addons that some IPTV providers have is simply a portal with own EPG

HERONHALL

EPG from what I have experienced is a tough with M3U. M3U is like a song list and it has a channels you can click. No real way of seeing what schedule program is on. I test Mayfair with Reboot back in the day and it was good. No new experiences sorry.