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Open-TV: Ultra-fast, simple and powerful cross-platform IPTV app
Author : thunderbong
Score : 117 points
Date : 2024-10-10 01:14 UTC (21 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| sirfz wrote:
| I have to say that IPTV apps across all platforms have a
| horrendous UX and are especially slow and clunky. I always felt
| that there's so much to improve in the space and I'm happy to see
| this project, looks promising judging from the description
| (although I haven't been using IPTV for a while now and can't try
| this).
| allyant wrote:
| https://tivimate.com/ is about the nicest, but yes the IPTV
| scene doesn't have a nice UX at all, naming conventions (or
| lack of) especially.
| maximinus-thrax wrote:
| Unfortunately this one looks good at first but fails some basic
| UI. There is no information on what the stream is doing, so if
| it fails to fetch any data it'll just sit there spinning with
| no feedback. Hypnotix (a similar app) has the same issue, it's
| very annoying and you'd imagine easy to fix.
| dewey wrote:
| I've been using https://iptvx.app on my iPad / Apple TV. It
| looks pretty decent, but a lot of them look extremely ugly.
| dreamlayers wrote:
| I don't think apps running in a web browser are very efficient.
| Calling something like that "ultra-fast" doesn't seem right.
| Mashimo wrote:
| Does the framework matter if the UI is snappy?
| saghul wrote:
| But it's not a web browser? It now seems to use Tauri just for
| UI and do the actual rendering with mpv.
| 9865yh95467hy4 wrote:
| Are you living in a pre 2008 world or something? Stop being so
| pedantic.
| bilekas wrote:
| There is merit to everything not being on the web. Some
| things don't need to be. I don't have any dog in the fight
| but seems to me maybe an IpTV service which would be tailored
| for you could potentially be more responsive as a local
| application instead. No need to knock that mentality as a
| generational thing or "old fashioned "
|
| Edit: Merit to things "not" being on the web.
| dylan604 wrote:
| While I have an opposite mindset that not everything needs
| to be an app and can just be a website whether that is
| mobile or desktop
| bilekas wrote:
| I don't always subscribe to the expression "just use the
| right tool for the job" sometimes it's nice to do things
| differently just to learn, but in this case, I still see
| some more benefits in this case of iota application being
| a bit more "synchronous" and local. But to be fair I have
| worked for a few years on a cloud streaming provider, but
| we had "set top boxes" to work with so I am maybe a bit
| biased.
| mihaaly wrote:
| I knew a person judging women by their height. ... I am
| unsure why I recall this now! ; )
| neogodless wrote:
| I'm not a user of IPTV services and haven't really heard about
| it.
|
| I found this which lists apps and services that provide IPTV:
|
| https://github.com/iptv-org/awesome-iptv
|
| Is that kind of service common in some parts of the world? Do
| people set up their own IPTV servers to share content? What are
| the most popular use cases?
| diggan wrote:
| From time to time we use it. My wife is from South America but
| we live in Europe, bunch of channels she wanna watch aren't
| available legally here so it's the only way.
| pzmarzly wrote:
| That list seems to have been cleaned up last year, this is the
| previous version that contains more providers:
| https://github.com/iptv-org/awesome-iptv/pull/169/files
|
| I personally prefer using legal IPTV providers (e.g.
| https://polbox.tv/en/ for Polish TV, https://ibox.ie for UK and
| Irish, etc), though having to use VPNs for the content I
| already paid for is getting annoying.
| eddieroger wrote:
| Reading through the list of providers on your link, I think the
| answer is that yes, it's more common in the parts of the world,
| and those parts aren't necessarily the US.
| dewey wrote:
| > Do people set up their own IPTV servers to share content?
| What are the most popular use cases?
|
| Most people I know use it to watch (pirated) sports broadcasts
| that are either very fragmented (So you'd have to subscribe to
| 5 providers, which is very expensive) or not available in the
| geographic location. Personally I use it to watch Sky UK, which
| isn't available in my location even if I wanted to pay for it.
|
| You can self-host an IPTV server with https://ersatztv.org +
| Plex. I've recently set that up just for fun and there's people
| running channels with real old ads from their childhood just
| for nostalgia reasons.
| ranger_danger wrote:
| Probably not a great idea to link to a bunch of pirated
| streams. Some of those are official but a lot of them are not.
| denysvitali wrote:
| Init7 provides all their TV7 channels via IPTV:
| https://www.init7.net/en/tv/channels/
|
| You can choose between multicast or HLS. This only works if
| Init7 is your ISP of course.
| DrNosferatu wrote:
| How does it compare to "yuki-iptv"?
|
| https://codeberg.org/liya/yuki-iptv
| ForHackernews wrote:
| Nice to see something using IP multicast!
| fredol wrote:
| Hey guys, I'm the dev of Open TV. Someone from here sent me an
| email so I just made an account to give a bit more context about
| my project.
|
| Open TV is a search-based IPTV player designed for desktop use.
| It puts to the fire many of the sins of UI/UX design of
| traditional IPTV apps to prioritize simplicity and speed. Many
| classic IPTV features like the EPG are absent on purpose just to
| keep that commitment.
|
| I've been developing Open TV solo for the past 2 years. It used
| to be a very basic electron app that I made for my relatives so
| they would stop using proprietary, slow and almost malware-tier
| IPTV apps.
|
| I shared it with others as a "it's useful for me, maybe also for
| you". I had absolutely no intention of making it bigger than a
| stupid simple m3u viewer (it didn't even have xtream support
| before, or even categories). But I received so much positive
| feedback from users that I decided to give it some more love.
| It's been on and off, and at some point I reached 0.9.8 and
| pretty much called it quits for a while. I wasn't paid to work on
| Open TV so it was very difficult to allocate even more time.
|
| I decided to revisit the project 4 months ago. Over the past 3-4
| months, I've completely rewritten the app in Rust/Tauri so that I
| could finally add features requested by the community and to be
| able to publish it on Flathub/Microsoft Store.
|
| One of the very first feature request of this project was to put
| it on flathub and I'm really proud to finally deliver on that.
| I'm a Debian user, so it feels like I'm finally giving back to
| the open source community by making it my app so widely
| accessible on Linux.
|
| If you like Open TV and its dedication to be simple, fast and
| bloat-free, please consider donating. I'm still solo on this and
| doing it purely for the sake of my users (I don't really watch
| TV...), so any contribution is really appreciated.
| SunlitCat wrote:
| >It used to be a very basic electron app that I made for my
| relatives so they would stop using proprietary, slow and almost
| malware-tier IPTV apps.
|
| Those tend to be some of the best projects! <3
| Brainspackle wrote:
| I don't see any channels worth watching though
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