骆驼Live: .m3u8 player for Chinese Android boxes

骆驼Live Load screen

[APP] Recently I come across this Chinese android app called 骆驼Live that I thought is something of a rare breed that works for my android boxes which are;

1. More than 3 years old running old Android OS (as old as Kit Kat which is 4. something)
2. Chinese boxes which does not have Google Service Framework (ie. cannot install YouTube independently.
3. Low specs, likes 1GB ram and 8GB storage.

I wasn't using these boxes previously as we got new boxes like E*pad but having to work from home my wife wanted one more TV in our study room turned office. All we wanted was the National TV so we can watch PM Lee speech together.

We could gone with digital TV box but I didn't want to spend money so then the idea of IPTV running m3u playlist came to my mind.

The main challenge is that the popular IPTV app like Tivomate would not install on these old boxes for some reason. Installer crashes or the app crashes after installation.

Then I found this app that installs successfully on both my old boxes, Le TV is one of them, and runs smoothly!  There is no EPG support who cares! And technically it does not support m3u playlist because it does not read m3u playlist but it does read the m3u8 urls within the m3u list.

Now the boxes are ready to pick up the mediacorp m3u8 urls. Which I found that this link. Link - IPTV Cat

Click on "Download this list" to download the m3u playlist then open the list to look for .m3u8 urls. For example: https://d2e1asnsl7br7b.cloudfront.net/7782e205e72f43aeb4a48ec97f66ebbe/index_5.m3u8

Gather the m3u8 urls and then put them into a notepad file, .txt in the following format.

Name of Channel, .m3u8 url and end each line with #.
For example:
CH5,https://hello.net/index5.m3u8#
CNA,https://hello.net/indexN.m3u8#
CH8,https://gello.net/ster02.m3u8#

Finally, put this .txt file in the box internal storage folder "骆驼Live" with ES file explorer app or any file manager. Then start 骆驼Live app, wait for a few seconds for the data to load and viola!

Update on 25 May 2020: For old Android boxes, always use LAN cable connection to the router. With 2.4Ghz wifi network, it will barely run anything. Also, there are plenty of m3u8 urls online so if you would like say Taiwanese channels, they are available online as well.