Ok....you guys got just about everything wrong other than that our IPTV service no longer plays out on Mini HD SE.
I'll address things in no particular order....
Titanium for once has it all wrong. Very rare for Brian.
What Titanium is referring to is the Amiko IPTV Android App for A3. That is based on an individual that runs great IPTV service over in Europe (he is in Turkey) and is where the channel lists for that A3 App feed from. I fixed that the morning it was reported, just had to update our server for the changes the guy made in his service. Nothing whatsoever to do with Mini HD SE, 8240, Nano or Mini Original.
The WebTV service we run for Amiko ALi based products (Mini original/SE, 8240, Nano) is homegrown and has nothing to do with the A3 thing Brian was referring to. A3's can't even run it as they won't pass authentication for our ALi system.
I brought Mini HD original and Mini HD SE over to North America to provide an actual legal, quality True FTA STB in the sub-$100 range. It is meant as an awesome True FTA satellite receiver first, with some limited internet functions thrown in. ALi webtv is a minimum maintenance bonus that was meant for more of an example rather than a primary service.
The reason why you guys can't access our limited ALi service on Mini SE anymore is that the engineers made some changes in the newer firmware and it will no longer pass NA IPTV authentication. I tried, but there is nothing I can do for it at the moment. Amiko HD-8240, Nano HD and Mini HD Original should be fine with approved NA firmware.
I'd be happy to drop the authentication so that Mini SE passes but unfortunately I can't. People like pwrsurge and some not so legit FTA sites actively work to steal our work rather than do anything on their own. At the end of the day this is a business and Amiko, the factory engineers and I cannot give away intellectual property for crooks to steal.
Vallenato and N6BY, your attempts to access the service directly will never work. Your computers certainly don't pass authentication as Amiko ALi based STB's. This is also why the system is secured, guys posting links to the playout files end up getting our channels listed in simpletv and other listings across the web and then our services start working like crap because half of Ukraine is trying to access them.
All that said, the part of the system that is secure and intellectual property is in the deployment of IPTV services on ALi STB's, not how to add your own. I'm happy to tell you guys how to do that. It is not a secret and you don't need to be an engineer to figure it out. You do have to have some common sense and be able to follow instructions, so that might eliminate a good portion of the population.
First, download the the ALi WebTV file from my forum. That gives you a nice template so you know what the STB expects.
Second, you need to understand the hardware capabilities of ALi and the WebTV system. This is a sub-$100 box, not an A3 that can do everything. ALi based WebTV can only do a limited set of formats for live streaming.
Your source stream must use the HTTP protocol. It must use a pretty standard H264 codec. It is not going to do progressive streaming (i.e. m3u8) or fancy f4v's.
You can't just enter the URL of a website with a live stream. That doesn't work on anything that streams, save an A3 where you can just go to the webpage in your browser and play like on a computer. You need the actual source stream URL and port if specified.
The way to do this is with wireshark. If you don't know what that is, you probably can't do this, no offense to anyone.
If you know what wireshark is, look at our ALi WebTV file and the channels. Go to their sites and sniff them. You'll then get the idea of what will work on the ALi boxes and what you need for the URLs.