Ĭode: #EXTINF:0,The Admiral Was A Lady 1950 Shown below is an example of one full channel line. The Playlist always begins it's syntax or script with #EXTM3UĮach separate channel line begins with #EXTINF:x, These shown here are just some old 1950's movies, but the concept is the same for Live TV m3u Playlists. *Shown further down below in this tutorial, is an actual working M3U Playlist (not rockets thou) Okay, with the file open, you will then see a bunch of lines of information, hundreds of lines with a very large Playlist. Simply open the m3u file with Notepad or WordPad on your PC and start editing, cause it is a text file/document, just encoded specifically.Īfterwards, when you save the file, ensure that it is saved as UTF-8 encoded (you will see this option at the bottom of that 'save' menu).Īfter has been saved and closed, right click on the file itself, and then click Properties and check in there that the file type is in fact. M3U files that are UTF-8 encoded are instead saved in the M3U8 file format.' These text-based files can contain URLs and/or absolute or relative path-names to the media files and/or folders. It is not an actual audio/video file in and of itself.Īn M3U file just points to audio (and sometimes video) files so that a media player can queue them for playback. 'A file with the M3U file extension is an Audio and or Video Playlist file that stands for MP3 URL. The m3u designation is just a name of a certain text file encoded correctly, and with all the info your chosen Player needs is included in the text. M3U or M3U8 are not formats, like mp3 or mp4 or etc are formats. Editing of an m3u file, simply with Notepad or Wordpad or many other text editors will do the job.

Open m3u file