IPTV is an acronym for Internet Protocol Television. It’s a digital TV service that delivers video over the internet. IPTV can be live or on-demand.
This roundup highlights the finest IPTV streaming applications for Linux. The tools support live TV, movies, and series.
Here’s our verdict captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-style ratings chart. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion.
Click the links in the table below to learn more about each program.
| IPTV Players | |
|---|---|
| Open TV | Billed as an ultra-fast, simple and powerful cross-platform IPTV app |
| IPTVnator | Cross-platform IPTV player application with multiple features |
| Tunarr | Create and configure live TV channels |
| dizqueTV | Create live TV channel streams from media on your Plex servers |
| TVHplayer | Desktop client for playback and recording live TV with TVheadend |
| termv | Bash script to select an iptv stream using fzf and play it using mpv |
| yuki-iptv | IPTV player with EPG support |
| Televido | Access German language public broadcasting live streams |
| Hypnotix | IPTV streaming application with support for live TV, movies and series |
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Have tried all these and they are simply not good enough. All Rubbish
I’m currently developing a cross-platform Qt-based IPTV player. It’s pretty alpha at the moment but does what I want. I’m not sure whether I’ll open source it or follow something like the model of HiFile (i.e. sell it for Windows, Mac with no charge for Linux).
Thanks for letting us have a binary of your IPTV player. We’ll provide feedback as promised.