SAT>IP channel list broken

[francess]

Hi,

The current version of VLC for Android (from the Play Store) continues not working correctly with SAT>IP servers. Some threads over the past years have pointed this, and no one has resolved it. I feel mainly because an incorrect understanding of the problem. So I want to share here my research:

- The most simple use of a SAT>IP server inside VLC in Android it's using the UPNP Autodiscovering Service. However, every time you try to open a SAT>IP server with this option you obtain an error.
- This error is because (and only by this) the current active code tries to download an incorrect channel list. So the call to "http://www.satip.info/Playlists/auto.m3u".
- So, only fixing this incorrect address and changing it to a valid value, it will start to work with SAT>IP servers. One reason it's because some SAT>IP servers export not only the RTSP list, but one HTTP list too. Then with the HTTP protocol the VLC works without troubles. But the problem is how to download the correct channel list. Even if the RTSP protocol continues with troubles.
- Futhermore, even if someone say that's not possible to change the channel list in the Android version, this is not true: You can use the "advanced / custom libVLC options" to set the value.
- Using the desktop VLC version, you can start it using "--satip-channellist-url=http://my-sat-server/myList.m3u". And then and by default when searching from the Autodiscovering UPnP you'll see your custom list if you open your SAT>IP server.
- This option "satip-channellist-url" and "satip-channelist" is documented in the official website: "https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_command-line_help" (search for "satip-channelist").
- Then problem is that the Android version seems to not understand this option.

So, I suggest to do a small review of the Android source code. The current code shows correctly all SAT>IP servers in then LAN. So you only need to fix two small bugs (the default URL and the custom libVLC options). In fact, these two bugs have reported time ago (years). So I feel it's time to fix them.

I hope some developer will want to address this.
Regards.