I recently got a GTmedia V8 nova and I wanted to use iptv with it. First I upgraded to newest firmware available (4/1/2019).
I have my GTMedia box connected through ethernet. Using the ping utility, I noticed DNS was not working (I could ping 8.8.8.8 but not google.com). By changing option from DHCP to "static" and setting DNS server as "8.8.8.8" I could get DNS to work. Please GTMedia devs, fix this, it should work fine with DNS from my DHCP but it doesn't.
Next step, I found 2 ways to feed IPTV URLs into the GTMedia:
1- custom_url.m3u: Put an m3u file into root directory of your USB pendrive, and a menu pops up when you plug the pendrive. However, it doesn't work, because it stays forever trying to process the file once you ask it to import it.
2- iptvlist.txt: It uses a special format, simpler but less powerful than m3u. This one works fine and I could import my list. However, I miss the possibility to import "groups" so I can access different channels lists based on the group (other than "Favourite").
Most IPTV lists I found (like FluxusTV, nice finding!) come in m3u format. So I wrote a small python script which processes it and output an iptvlist.txt like format which can be used to import the list.
To run it, let's say to downloaded the FluxusTV list and named it "mylist.m3u":
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./m3u2iptvlist.py mylistm3u >iptvlist.txt
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./m3u2iptvlist.py mylistm3u | grep -v stitcher.pluto.tv >iptvlist.txt