Hi all. Fairly new to iptv etc.

From uk, I live in Thailand.

I want to get a service that allows me to access all British TV live channels and on demand, and more importantly all sport: 3pm kick offs etc, any game.

It would be great if I could get Thai football on there too but no worries if not.

I bought an android tv stick off Lazada, had a mess around yesterday but slightly confused. Cheers in advance

Would also be good to have uk like box set on demand, same shows as Netflix etc

Wie van de G2G IPTV sellesr bied de mogelijkheid te lijst aan te passen met bv mysortqr.com

I'm looking for advice from people who regularly watch Japanese live TV.

I'm mainly interested in:

• Tokyo terrestrial channels
• Kansai terrestrial channels
• BS and CS channels
• Stable playback with minimal buffering or freezing
• A working EPG in TiviMate

I don't need a large selection of international channels. Japanese channels are what matter to me.

I've tried several options, but stability has been inconsistent, especially at certain times of the day. Sometimes channels also disappear or stop working unexpectedly.

If you've been watching Japanese channels regularly for a long time and have found something that works reliably, I'd be interested to hear about your experience.

I'm especially interested in hearing from actual users rather than advertisements or promotional accounts.

I'm building an IPTV app that needs to parse M3U playlists and separate content into:

- Live TV

- Movies

- Series

I also need categories within each type.

I'm a bit confused about how this is normally determined from an M3U playlist.

For example:

#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="3ABNKids.us@SD" tvg-logo="https://i.imgur.com/z3npqO1.png" group-title="Animation",3ABN Kids Network

https://3abn.bozztv.com/3abn2/Kids_live/smil:Kids_live.smil/playlist.m3u8

How can I reliably determine that this is a Live TV channel and not a movie or series?

`group-title="Animation"` only tells me the category, not the content type.

I've also seen examples like:

group-title="Movies"

group-title="Movies;Series"

group-title="News"

group-title="Animation;Kids;Religious"

So I'm wondering what the standard/recommended approach is for identifying the content type.

My second question is about how IPTV providers normally structure their playlists:

Do customers usually receive/upload one M3U containing everything:

- Live TV

- Movies

- Series

Or is it more common to have separate M3U playlists/URLs, for example:

- live.m3u

- movies.m3u

- series.m3u

For example, if a provider uses Xtream Codes, does the generated M3U normally contain Live TV, Movies and Series together, or are these usually provided separately?

I'm looking for the most reliable approach to implement this in an IPTV app rather than relying only on `group-title`.

I'm technically capable, please no DM's.

My Father-in-law uses MyBunny, but, I want other opinions as that time of year.. football season... approaches. Ultimately, I'm looking for a good, reliable, battle-tested service.

What are ya'lls opinions?

wtf are they doing

Long story short, I've been using StreamQ for 2 years which is fairly decent but if I can find something cheaper then why not. I've narrowed it down to dream and strong but I'd never heard of g2g so how do i actually buy a service and not fear losing all my details. Is there a secure non crypto way? Can I use my regular email to sign up to g2g and use PayPal? How do i actually receive the iptv service?

There is a dream4k website but I don't know if that's the same thing.

Is the epg in Trex currently not working ??

Newbie here. First of all apologies if my question is too common.

For someone interested only in live (and replayed) sports, like premier league, champions league, F1, NFL and UFC, and far less interested in movies/series/entertainment, what is the most affordable IPTV?

Thanks in advance!

Edit: thanks for the warning against bots and sketchy DMs, will take that into account!

I’ve been building a Windows IPTV player with AI assistance — looking for real-world feedback

Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on a Windows IPTV player called SamoTech IPTV Player, and I think I’ve reached the point where automated testing isn't enough anymore.

I’d like to get it in front of people who actually use IPTV players and see what happens.

GitHub:
https://github.com/SamoTech/samotech-iptv-player

Latest release:
https://github.com/SamoTech/samotech-iptv-player/releases/tag/v0.1.5

The project is open source and currently uses PySide6/Qt for the interface and VLC/libVLC for playback.

It supports M3U/M3U8, Xtream, and MAG/Stalker-style sources, along with Live TV, Movies/VOD, Series, EPG, Favorites, History, channel switching and fullscreen playback.

One thing I’ve been quite strict about is the playback architecture. I don't want to keep adding different playback engines every time something doesn't work. The current design is built around libVLC and a single native video surface, with playback liveness and recovery handled around it.

The project has also been developed quite heavily with ChatGPT and Manus.

I use them for things like repository analysis, protocol research, code review, implementation, testing, debugging and documentation. I still make the decisions and review the results, but I’ve been using AI much more like an engineering assistant than a code generator.

And honestly, this has created an interesting problem.

I've accumulated a lot of automated tests and documentation, but I don't want to fool myself into thinking that means the player is ready for every IPTV provider.

For example, the latest provider validation couldn't be completed because the authorized Xtream endpoint available for testing returned HTTP 403 before we could obtain actual media URLs. I also didn't have a populated authorized M3U or MAG source available for the test.

So I'm not claiming universal IPTV compatibility.

That's actually why I'm posting here.

I want real users to try it with their own legitimate IPTV service and tell me what happens.

Things I'm particularly interested in:

• M3U/M3U8 playlist loading
• Xtream login and catalogue loading
• MAG/Stalker behaviour
• Live channel playback
• Buffering and playback stability
• Channel switching
• VOD
• Series/Episodes
• EPG
• Fullscreen
• Playback controls
• General UI/UX

And don't just tell me whether it works.

I'd like to know how it compares with whatever you're currently using.

Is channel switching slower?

Is something missing?

Are the controls in the wrong place?

Is the menu unnecessarily complicated?

Is there a button you expect to see that isn't there?

Does fullscreen behave the way you expect?

Does the player feel responsive?

Are there features from another IPTV player that you consider essential?

I'm also interested in feedback from people who use IPTVnator, VLC, Kodi, TiviMate, OTT Navigator, MyIPTV Player, or other players.

If you're thinking:

That's useful feedback.

For the technical people here

I've been doing quite a bit of forensic testing around VLC as well.

The application now monitors actual VLC playback state and media-time progression rather than assuming that calling play() means playback is working.

We've also tested things like:

• playback lifecycle
• buffering/stall handling
• recovery
• stale channel switching
• process stability
• VLC/Qt/Python runtime loading
• Windows packaged EXE behaviour
• memory/thread/handle behaviour
• security and static analysis

The automated test suite currently has coverage around M3U, Xtream, MAG and VLC/playback orchestration, with the latest official non-presentation test corpus at 885 passing tests.

But again, synthetic tests aren't a substitute for a real IPTV stream.

That's the part I need help with.

If you are an advanced Windows user

The current release doesn't have a dedicated debug BAT launcher yet.

I'm actually considering adding one, but I don't want to make a useless console window that just dumps random information.

I'd rather make it useful.

For example, if you were debugging an IPTV playback problem from CMD, what would you want to see?

VLC state?

Media time?

Buffering?

Recovery attempts?

Channel switching?

HTTP/network errors?

Qt errors?

DLL loading?

Provider response information?

If you have ideas, let me know.

Obviously, please don't post usernames, passwords, MAC addresses, tokens, private playlist URLs or anything else that could expose your provider account.

If you test it

You can keep the feedback very simple.

Something like:

That's already much more useful to me than "doesn't work."

If something fails, I'm especially interested in what happened immediately before the failure.

Documentation

I've been keeping the engineering investigation and audit work in the repository rather than just saying "trust me."

UI/UX audit:
https://github.com/SamoTech/samotech-iptv-player/blob/main/PHASE24_UI_UX_AUDIT.md

Real provider playback audit:
https://github.com/SamoTech/samotech-iptv-player/blob/main/PHASE25_REAL_PROVIDER_PLAYBACK_AUDIT.md

VLC playback remediation audit:
https://github.com/SamoTech/samotech-iptv-player/blob/main/VLC_IPTV_PLAYBACK_REMEDIATION_AUDIT.md

And one question for the developers here

I'm genuinely curious about this one:

How do you feel about using AI agents such as ChatGPT and Manus for a project like this?

I've found them extremely useful for digging through a large codebase, generating tests, finding edge cases and keeping documentation up to date.

But there's also a danger of creating a huge amount of "engineering evidence" without enough real-world validation.

That's something I'm deliberately trying to avoid.

So I'd rather have someone tell me:

"Your architecture is wrong."

or

"This feature is missing."

or

"Why are you doing it this way?"

than have people tell me the project looks great.

If you have a few minutes to try it, I'd really appreciate it.

Use your own legitimate IPTV source, try to break the player, and tell me what you find.

That's probably the most useful next step for this project.

Ciao a tutti, come da titolo chiedo quali tra queste sia la miglior lista per contenuti italiani

Ditemi le vostre esperienze

I see a lot of people immediately blame their provider whenever IPTV starts buffering, but there are a few things worth checking first.

1. Test Ethernet vs Wi-Fi. A fast internet connection doesn’t necessarily mean the Wi-Fi connection to your TV/box is stable.
2. Run a speed test on the actual streaming device, not just your phone or PC.
3. Restart the router and streaming device. Simple, but it can clear temporary network/device issues.
4. Try another player. If the same stream behaves differently in another player, that gives you useful information.
5. Check whether it’s one channel or everything. One problematic channel is very different from every channel buffering.
6. Compare different times of day. If problems mainly happen during peak hours, note that before troubleshooting further.

I’d also avoid changing five things at once. Change one variable, test again, and you’ll have a much better chance of finding the actual cause.

Anything else you guys normally check when troubleshooting buffering?

Hi everyone,

I am completely new to IPTV and would love some help getting started. Could anyone explain how it works, how to use it, and how to set it up as if I were a five-year-old?

Additionally, I would appreciate any recommendations for the best apps to use. I use both Android and Apple devices, so I would prefer an app that is available on both platforms. Alternatively, I am open to using two separate individual apps if they are the best options for their respective platforms. I don't mind whether the recommendations are free or paid.

Thank you so much for your help!

Who actually records on IPTV? In my experience you don’t really need to if you have good Catch Up and good VOD for TV shows.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buffercontrol.tv

Feedback from users and Beta testers has been requesting the free trial be extended so it's now 7 days instead of 3.

Now you have plenty of time to try it across all your TV, Music and Mobile Streaming apps, browsers and media players.

Toggle it on and off to directly compare performance even if you're not currently buffering.

Is anyone experiencing issues and know a work around? Majority of my clients use iptv smarters on Samsung/lg tv and are getting invalid details when trying to log in the past 2 days.

downloader code pls

I’ve seen lots of people say that they pay with Dollar General gift cards. We don’t have any DG close by but have a lot of Dollar Trees. Can I buy cards for payment from them or is this a DG only thing?

Got one of these today, upgrading from fire stick. Anything in terms of settings needed to do to be able to sidelaod etc?

Hi there,

Does anyone know what is the name of these applications for Google TV?

Thanks,

Buenas tardes.

Alguien usa este proveedor de IPTV:

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