m3u file cannot download it from Xtream and implement it in IPTV application

Question

I am working on IPTV player that's going to be implementing a m3u file from Xtream but I don't seem to be able to download the m3u file through Android's DownloadManager and I cannot use it for direct parsing.

I tried downloading the m3u file from the browser and that seems to be going completely fine. But whenever I try to get it from the app itself, it just says download unsuccessful.

The download link to the m3u file is something like this:

http://serverip/get.php?username=customeruser&password=customerpassword&type=m3u&output=mpegts

Is there anything that I can do to parse this? I cannot seem to be downloading it so maybe using libVLC or EXOPlayer I can parse the list directly.

I am relatively new to Android Studio so any help would be appreciated!

EDIT: I tried even downloading a simple.jpg file from the DownloadManager and it seems to be working fine, but downloading m3u files is yet still unsuccessful .

Answer 1

LibVLC can read M3U streams. Try playing your URL in VLC for Android app, if it works, then you can reproduce the same behavior (code is OSS).