So my parents bought and use this IPTV Box or "HD Satellite Receiver" as it written on the box. It gives access several IPTV providers such as Star IPTV etc.
The one my parents uses have a fair amount of channels (+10000 + VODS and 24/7 tv shows channel). While fiddling with it for a bit, I tried to find the m3u playlist link so I can watch the channels on my computer/cellphone/nvidia shield but I couldn't find anything.
What I did next is set up a proxy client and sniff the http packets, I found the links where the IPTV box get it's channel from. Sadly, there no m3u file, everything is handled with json. One link for categories and the others for the channels (ts links) contained in a category.
Fortunately, I know a little bit of coding and generated my own m3u file with the categories (group-title) all set up correctly. All is now working well, except that there no EPG....
So I figured I might as well create my own EPG xml file. Is there any interesting guide/tutorial/reference on how to do that?
You might want to look into webgrab+plus