How to Watch Olympic Live Streams on Kodi Across All Platforms

With domestic live‑streaming apps blocked during the Olympic evening broadcasts, the article explains how to use Kodi—a cross‑platform media center—to watch the events.

Configure the IPTV Simple Client plugin

Open Kodi, go to Settings → Add‑ons → Install from repository .

Select PVR client → IPTV Simple Client and install it.

After installation, open the plugin, choose Settings → Enabled , then configure the location: either point to a local .m3u file or enter an online URL.

Return to the main interface, select TV → Channels to start viewing.

Select and filter m3u channels

Live‑stream URLs vary by region, so the article recommends obtaining shared playlists from GitHub and filtering them for better speed using the m3u-tester script.

Download the script from https://github.com/chaichunyang/m3u-tester and run: python3 m3u-tester.py The script checks each URL in the current directory’s .m3u file and measures connection speed.

After testing, the following files are generated: result.json – complete test results (extinf, URL, speed). useful.m3u – streams faster than 200 KB/s. good.m3u – streams faster than 500 KB/s. wonderful.m3u – streams faster than 700 KB/s. excellent.m3u – streams faster than 1 MB/s.

The author groups identical channel sources together and runs the script again to keep only the fastest URL for each channel.

Finally, load the filtered .m3u file into the IPTV Simple Client configuration to enjoy smooth Olympic live streams on any supported device.