SMPlayer Support Forum

Hi,
I use SMPlayer both, on Windows (W7, x64) and Linux Mint. Unfortunately, I can not use the same playlist on both systems.

On Linux the player accepts the playlist in UTF-8 encoding, and everything looks OK.
But if I open the same playlist in the player on Windows, the names are not readable:

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In the playlist, if I open it in a text editor it looks like this:

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When my playlist has the ANSI encoding Windows-1251, then all names look OK, but such playlist is not readable on my Linux Mint system, where the player wants UTF-8 playlists.
If I go to config folder of the SMPlayer on Winows and open there radio.m3u8 list or tv.m3u8, they are in UTF-8, so the player on Windows can read playlists in UTF-8.
Will it be possible for playlists to use UTF-8 encoding instead of ANSI? Or better if the encoding would be recognized automatically, Or to have a setting in Settings to choose the encoding for playlists.

2) Since we can watch TV, for which I'm thankful very much, if it would be possible to add TV guide, EPG (this are the XML files, often compressed, updated from external sources), like in IPTV players, that would be nice

Can you provide a sample playlist where this problem happens?

Thank you for the answer.

This is the playlist in UTF-8, the Titles are unreadable

test-utf-8.m3u.txt

playlist in UTF-8

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here how they look:

playlist in UTF-8 doesn't look well

test-utf-8.PNG (74.74 KiB) Viewed 5238 times

This is the laylist in CP-1251

test-cp-1251.m3u.txt

playlist in ANSI (windows-1251) looks well

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The titles look ok.

playlist in ANSI (windows-1251) looks well

test-cp-1251.PNG (121.28 KiB) Viewed 5238 times

I have Windows 7, x64. Russian Language.
SMPlayer v. 17.12.0 (rev.8844) (64-bit)

You need to save the playlists in UTF-8 using the m3u8 extension.

Hello,
I have a similar problem about EPG. I have IPTV from TvHeadend and it transmit EPG in the signal. I would like that SMPlayer shows EPG in the channel list, but I don't know how to do it or if is possible. Can I have help about it, please?

Thank you.