Hello and thanks for reading. I am new to my understanding of IPTV but not necessarily new to editing text files.

I've spent a considerable amount of time cleaning up the M3U playlist from my provider to be able to customize it for my needs.

It worked like a charm for a couple hours and then just stopped. All the channels excepted just a few stopped working.

I checked to see if the channels were working using the providers hosted m3u url and they ARE still working and the few links that I checked have not changed. Still the same URL.

I've done this before with other providers without a problem.

Any clues?? Below are a couple of examples of the links, some use my actual User/Pass, some do not. I have redacted identifying information.

I've removed channel name/category/group info for simplicity.

This is an example of the URL that uses my user/pass.

http://providerswebsite.com:83/MyUsername/MyPassword/260727

This is an example of the URL that DOES NOT use my user/pass.

http://SomeIPaddress:83/a0w10NwSwz/3520202039999999993520AM358352020/18

Thanks much.