Open-TV: Ultra-fast, simple and powerful cross-platform IPTV app

43 pointsposted 13 hours ago
by thunderbong

8 Comments

sirfz

2 hours ago

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

an hour ago

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.

neogodless

20 minutes ago

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

14 minutes ago

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.

dreamlayers

an hour ago

I don't think apps running in a web browser are very efficient. Calling something like that "ultra-fast" doesn't seem right.

saghul

25 minutes ago

But it's not a web browser? It now seems to use Tauri just for UI and do the actual rendering with mpv.

Mashimo

an hour ago

Does the framework matter if the UI is snappy?