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Hello,
I use VLC to watch IPTV on Windows 10 with a .m3u link. The link takes 10 minutes to load and another 10 minutes to load a specific channel, VLC will simply freeze during this time. Once the channel is loaded, VLC and the stream work flawlessly, but getting there can take 20-30 minutes. I believe this is because the channel listing may be too large (i.e. 1000+). It's only the initial load time that takes a long time, post-load, the stream works fine for hours.

Is there a way to:
- load a specific channel or channel shortlist from a .m3u link
- improve performance

Thanks in advance

Without knowing where the m3u link leads to it's a bit difficult to form an opinion. But I tried a few sites which provide m3u links to sports programmes and they all loaded immediately without any delay.

I suggest you reset prefs by hitting Ctrl + P in vlc and then click the big Reset Preferences button at the bottom as an initial troubleshooting step. Save, exit and restart vlc.

I'm suffering from the same problem.. I'm trying to use IPTV via vlc and it freezes for almost 10 mins before working. any advice on how to fix that?

Thanks.