4grayandClaude Fable 5.1
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* fix(xtream): render catch-up start times in the panel timezone
The `{Y-m-d:H-M}` segment of an Xtream timeshift URL is read by the panel
with `strtotime()` in ITS timezone (`server_info.timezone`), never the
viewer's. The timezone was learned in memory only, by the store's
`checkPortalStatus()`, so the Favorites / Recent catch-up resolver — which
reads the STORED playlist row — always fell back to the viewer's local
clock and asked the panel for the wrong programme (#1562).
- Normalize the panel's clock once (`resolveXtreamServerTimezone`): an
ICU-resolvable name is kept, otherwise a `UTC±HH:MM` offset is derived
from the `time_now` / `timestamp_now` clock pair, so spellings such as
`UTC+3` no longer silently mean "local time".
- Persist it on the playlist row through `transformPlaylistMeta` (no-op
when unchanged) and project it back from the payload in
`DB_GET_PLAYLIST`, so both catch-up entry points and a restart see it.
- Format with `hourCycle: 'h23'` (server midnight is `00`, never `24`) and
read timestamp-less EPG `start`/`end` strings in the panel's clock.
- Mock: `tzoffset:tzoffset` scenario with an unusable timezone name and a
+03:00 clock pair; Electron e2e covers Live TV, Favorites, a restart into
Global favorites, and the clock-pair derivation at a UTC-3 viewer.
Closes #1562
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(xtream): guard the account-info answer by playlist identity and reject rolled-over dates
Review follow-ups (Greptile):
- A source switch while `get_account_info` is in flight no longer hands
playlist A's status or clock to playlist B: the store is patched only
while the asking playlist is still selected, the timezone is persisted
under the asking playlist's id regardless, and a late failure cannot mark
the newly selected playlist unavailable.
- `parseNaiveUtcMs` reads the constructed date back, so out-of-range panel
strings (`2026-13-01 25:00:00`) are rejected instead of silently rolling
over into a real instant.
- Document that a clock-derived fixed offset is a DST-less snapshot, refreshed
by every account-info check and only ever used for non-standard servers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(xtream): drop a panel clock that no longer belongs to the source
Review follow-ups (Codex + Greptile):
- A metadata update or DB_UPDATE_PLAYLIST that points the source at another
server drops the persisted `serverTimezone` (payload-only) until the next
account-info check, so Favorites / Recent cannot keep rendering the OLD
panel's clock; an update that supplies a clock keeps it.
- A late account-info answer is persisted only onto a row that still points
at the panel it came from — an edit that moved the source during the
request keeps the clock the edit flow dropped.
- The PWA data source and the route-session converter carry the persisted
timezone into the store playlist, so a later response without a usable
clock has a previous value to preserve.
- Mirror the catch-up timezone contract into AGENTS.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(xtream): drop the stale panel clock inside the UPDATE statement
Review follow-up (Codex): the database worker interleaves requests, so a
read-modify-write of the playlist payload could hand a concurrent upsert's
newer payload back to the past. The `serverTimezone` removal on a server
URL change is now one `CASE … json_remove(payload, '$.serverTimezone')`
expression inside the same UPDATE, guarded by `json_valid`; the spec runs
the real statement against Electron's SQLite on the actual `playlists`
table (moved, renamed, clock-less, malformed-payload and NULL-URL rows).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor(xtream): split the server-clock primitives out of the timezone util
Review follow-up (Greptile): `xtream-server-timezone.util.ts` had grown past
the 300-line file guideline. The zone-agnostic wall-clock primitives (stored
forms, Intl parts, naive parsing) now live in `xtream-server-clock.util.ts`;
the timezone util keeps the Xtream policy and re-exports the public helpers,
so every import and the spec are unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(xtream): offer the learned panel clock to storage on every check
Review follow-up (Codex): a transient storage failure left the clock in the
store but not on the row, and the next check compared the answer with the
in-memory value and never retried. The resolved timezone is now always
handed to `transformPlaylistMeta`, whose row-level equality check keeps the
common case a read without a write; a failed write is retried by the next
account-info check.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(xtream): apply an account-info answer only to the panel it came from
Review follow-up (Codex): an in-place edit keeps the playlist id while
moving the source, so an answer already on the wire for the OLD panel
passed the id-only guard and patched the new panel's status and clock into
the store. One `answersFor(candidate, credentials)` predicate now gates the
store patch, the error path and the persisted-row transform alike.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(xtream): never report another panel's status for the selected playlist
Review follow-up (Greptile): callers gate content initialization on the
value `checkPortalStatus()` returns for whatever is selected NOW. When the
answer no longer describes the selected playlist (source switch or in-place
edit during the request), the store's own verdict about the current
selection is returned instead of the old panel's status — on success and on
failure alike.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(xtream): persist the panel clock with one conditional UPDATE
Review follow-up (Codex): `transformPlaylistMeta` reads the row and then
upserts it whole, while the Xtream edit dialog saves through
`DB_UPDATE_PLAYLIST` outside `PlaylistsService`'s queue and the database
worker interleaves requests — an edit landing between that read and the
upsert was silently undone.
Persistence now goes through `IXtreamDataSource.rememberServerTimezone`:
- Electron: new `DB_SET_PLAYLIST_SERVER_TIMEZONE` worker op — one UPDATE
that `json_set`s the payload only while the row still points at the
request's connection and does not already carry the value; a malformed
payload is never rewritten (CASE, not AND, so json_extract cannot run
before json_valid). Wired through the worker types, main handler,
preload, bridge interface, both IPC contract tables and
`DatabaseService.setXtreamPlaylistServerTimezone`.
- PWA: `transformPlaylistMeta`, whose read and write share one IndexedDB
readwrite cursor transaction, plus the localStorage copy.
The store no longer injects `PlaylistsService`; it offers the resolved clock
to the data source and keeps only its in-memory guards. Real-SQLite coverage
for the op (fresh / same / moved / NULL / malformed / missing rows),
delegation specs for both data sources, docs updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(xtream): keep the stored panel clock across clockless full upserts
Review follow-up (Codex): a `PlaylistsService` mutation that read the row
before `DB_SET_PLAYLIST_SERVER_TIMEZONE` landed and upserted afterwards
replaced the payload with its clockless snapshot. `DB_UPSERT_APP_PLAYLIST(S)`
now carry the STORED clock into a snapshot that has none while the row still
points at the same connection (`playlistConflictUpdate`, nested CASE so the
json_* readers never run on a malformed payload); a snapshot with its own
clock, or one that moves the source, wins as is. Real-SQLite coverage for
kept / moved / own-clock / batch rows.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor(release): split capture-navigation under the max-lines cap
`tools/release/capture-navigation.ts` had grown to 567 counted lines, past
the 400-line rule, which failed `release-tools:lint` and — because the file
was not in the baseline — the max-lines baseline test on master and on
every PR branched from it. The 19 named setup actions are now grouped by
subject over one leaf module of shared page helpers:
- `capture-navigation-helpers.ts`: playlist-id registry, dialog handling,
navigation moves, `settleUi`
- `capture-navigation-setup-actions.ts`: add-playlist dialogs, settings
sections, remote control
- `capture-navigation-portal-actions.ts`: portal catalogs, live lists,
alternative sources (the two identical live-category flows share one
helper)
- `capture-navigation-download-actions.ts`: the download manager shots
- `capture-navigation.ts`: the `runAction` dispatcher, theme switching and
the re-exported API the seeding driver and the capture script import
Actions call their siblings directly instead of recursing through
`runAction`, so no module depends on the dispatcher. The action vocabulary
is unchanged (same 19 names, same waits and timeouts); every file is under
300 lines and the new modules are listed in the `release-tools` lint target.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor(electron): move the panel-clock SQL into its own operations module
Review follow-up (Greptile): the timezone persistence, invalidation,
upsert-preservation and row projection had landed in
`playlist.operations.ts`, a baselined 1,000-line file. They now live in
`playlist-server-timezone.operations.ts` (155 lines) — the three SQL
shapes plus the payload projection — and the playlist operations compose
them; the baselined file shrinks by 107 lines. Behaviour and the
real-SQLite coverage are unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
IPTVnator - IPTV Player Application
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IPTVnator is a video player application that provides support for IPTV playlist playback (m3u, m3u8). The application allows users to import playlists using remote URLs or by uploading files from the local file system. Additionally, it supports EPG information in XMLTV format which can be provided via URL.
The application is a cross-platform, open-source project built with Electron and Angular.
⚠️ Note: IPTVnator does not provide any playlists or other digital content. The channels and pictures in the screenshots are for demonstration purposes only.
Important
Official sources only. IPTVnator is a free, open-source player — it never sells IPTV subscriptions, channels, or playlists. Websites offering "IPTVnator subscriptions/channels/premium/activated" builds are not affiliated with this project. Get the app only from the official website or GitHub Releases. See Beware of unofficial IPTVnator websites and IPTV services for details.
Features
Playlists & sources
- M3U / M3U8 playlists from local files or remote URLs 📂, with automatic updates on startup
- Xtream Codes (XC) and Stalker / Ministra (STB) portal support
- Custom "User-Agent" header per playlist
Playback
- Built-in HTML5 player (HLS.js or Video.js) with a resizable, resumable inline view
- Optional unified IPTVnator controls for HTML5, Video.js, and ArtPlayer, enabled in Settings → Playback (experimental)
- External players — MPV, VLC, and IINA on macOS (
mpv.app/VLC.appbundle paths supported) (desktop) - Embedded MPV — native mpv rendered inside the app window on macOS, Windows & Linux 🖥️ (experimental · desktop)
- Dedicated radio player for
radio="true"streams 📻
Live TV & EPG
- EPG / XMLTV TV guide with a live timeline ribbon and multi-channel grid (desktop)
- TV archive / catch-up / timeshift (desktop)
- Group-based channel list, channel-number selection, and search 🔍
Movies & series (VOD)
- Redesigned two-state detail pages (browse ↔ watch) with season tabs and resume positions
- Download manager for offline movies & episodes ⬇️ (desktop)
- "Recently added" feeds and category grids with sorting & pagination
Discovery & metadata
- Global search across live TV, movies, and series (desktop)
- TMDB enrichment (opt-in) — plots, cast & crew, trailers, ratings, artwork, a "Similar" rail, clickable actor pages, and a trending dashboard rail (trending rail: desktop)
- Dashboard with recently watched & continue-watching
Organization
- Per-playlist and global favorites, aggregated across all playlists ⭐
- Recently viewed / watch history
- Command palette (
Ctrl/Cmd+K)
Platform
- Cross-platform desktop (Electron) and installable PWA
- Desktop auto-updater and mobile remote control (desktop)
- Docker self-hosting for the PWA + web backend
- 19 languages (translation files), light & dark themes, and keyboard shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts
Press ? or Shift+/ in the workspace to open the in-app shortcuts list.
| Area | Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Global | Ctrl/Cmd+K |
Open command palette |
| Global | Ctrl/Cmd+F |
Open global search in the desktop app |
| Global | Ctrl/Cmd+R |
Open recently viewed in the desktop app |
| Global | Enter in workspace search |
Submit the current search |
| Global | F11 |
Toggle app window fullscreen in the desktop app |
| Navigation | Ctrl/Cmd+B |
Toggle the live sidebar |
| Navigation | 0-9 |
Select an M3U channel by number |
| Playback | Space / K |
Play or pause playback |
| Playback | F |
Toggle player fullscreen |
| Playback | ArrowLeft / ArrowRight |
Seek VOD playback by 5 seconds |
| Playback | ArrowUp / ArrowDown |
Adjust volume by 5% |
| Playback | M |
Mute audio |
| Dialogs and lists | ArrowUp / ArrowDown |
Move command palette selection |
| Dialogs and lists | Enter |
Run the selected command or open a focused item |
| Dialogs and lists | Escape |
Close dialogs and dismiss overlays |
The desktop app can also open at its last size, maximized, or fullscreen on
every launch (Settings → General → "Window on startup"), and iptvnator --fullscreen forces a single fullscreen launch for TV or HTPC autostart
scripts without changing that setting.
Screenshots:
| Dashboard with recently watched content | Live channels with inline player and EPG |
|---|---|
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| Add playlist dialog for M3U, Xtream, and Stalker | Live category channel list |
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| Global search across live TV, movies, and series | Manage visible live categories |
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| Movie category grid with sorting and pagination | Recently added movies and series |
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| VOD details with playback and download actions | Download manager |
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| Multi-channel EPG grid | External MPV player support |
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| Radio playback with dedicated audio player | Light theme |
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| Application settings | |
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Note: First version of the application which was developed as a PWA is available in an extra git branch.
Self-hosted PWA
The Docker setup builds the Angular PWA and the monorepo web backend into one
image. The backend handles remote M3U parsing plus Xtream and Stalker proxy
requests under /api, so a separate 4gray/iptvnator-backend container is not
required for the default self-hosted flow.
docker compose -f docker/docker-compose.yml up --build -d
The application is available at http://localhost:4333. See
docker/docker-compose.yml for the ready-to-run
compose file and docker/README.md for environment
variables, reverse proxy notes, PWA limitations, and build details.
The self-hosted image runs the browser PWA rather than the Electron desktop app: EPG/XMLTV panels, Embedded MPV, managed MPV/VLC launching, the download manager, and Electron remote-control features are not available there. If browser playback fails, copy the stream URL and open it manually in an external player such as MPV, VLC, or IINA.
Download
Download the latest version of the application for macOS, Windows, and Linux from the release page.
Alternatively, you can install the application using one of the following package managers:
Homebrew
$ brew install iptvnator
Snap
$ sudo snap install iptvnator
Arch
Also available as an Arch PKG, iptvnator-bin, in the AUR (using your favourite AUR-helper, .e.g. yay)
$ yay -S iptvnator-bin
Gentoo
You can install IPTVnator from the gentoo-zh overlay
sudo eselect repository enable gentoo-zh
sudo emerge --sync gentoo-zh
sudo emerge iptvnator-bin
Linux Embedded MPV Support
Embedded MPV on Linux is experimental and currently supports x64 desktop
sessions where IPTVnator runs under X11 or Xwayland. Native Wayland embedding
is not supported yet. Linux package launchers request X11 with
--ozone-platform=x11, so Wayland desktops still need Xwayland available.
The Linux backend starts a system mpv executable with --wid, so mpv must
be installed and available on PATH. CI validates the Linux native addon and
standard packages on Ubuntu 22.04, with Flatpak packaging built on Ubuntu 24.04.
Expected user targets are Ubuntu/Debian .deb, Arch/Manjaro pacman, RPM
distributions, and AppImage on x64 systems with X11/Xwayland plus mpv
installed. Flatpak and Snap builds remain available, but embedded MPV is not
announced as supported there yet because those sandboxed formats do not expose
the host mpv executable to the embedded backend by default.
Troubleshooting
macOS: "App is damaged and can't be opened"
Older unsigned macOS builds may require removing the quarantine flag from the downloaded application:
xattr -c /Applications/IPTVnator.app
Alternatively, if the app is located in a different directory:
xattr -c ~/Downloads/IPTVnator.app
Linux: chrome-sandbox Issues
If you encounter the following error when launching IPTVnator:
The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly.
Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now.
You need to make sure that chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.
Solution 1: Fix chrome-sandbox permissions (Recommended for .deb/.rpm installations)
Navigate to the IPTVnator installation directory and run:
sudo chown root:root chrome-sandbox
sudo chmod 4755 chrome-sandbox
Solution 2: Launch with --no-sandbox flag
Edit the desktop launcher file to add the --no-sandbox flag:
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Find your desktop file location:
- Ubuntu/Debian:
~/.local/share/applications/iptvnator.desktop - System-wide:
/usr/share/applications/iptvnator.desktop
- Ubuntu/Debian:
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Edit the file and modify the
Execline:Exec=iptvnator --no-sandbox %U -
Save the file and relaunch the application from your application menu.
Alternatively, you can launch IPTVnator from the terminal with the flag:
iptvnator --no-sandbox
GNU/Linux: Wayland startup failure
If IPTVnator exits on GNU/Linux with errors about failing to connect to Wayland or initialize the Ozone platform, force X11/XWayland instead:
iptvnator --ozone-platform=x11
This workaround is mainly for older or problematic Linux graphics stacks. The Snap package already includes this X11 override by default. For AppImage, direct binaries, and other Linux package formats, pass the flag manually when needed.
How to Build and Develop
Requirements:
- Node.js 22.13–22.x or 24 and newer with pnpm (via Corepack)
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Clone this repository and install project dependencies:
$ corepack enable $ pnpm install -
Start the application:
$ pnpm run serve:backend
This will open the Electron app in a separate window, while the Angular dev server will run at http://localhost:4200.
The equivalent Nx command is:
$ nx serve electron-backend
To start Electron with an empty, isolated data directory instead of your normal
~/.iptvnator folder, set IPTVNATOR_E2E_DATA_DIR for that run:
$ rm -rf .tmp/iptvnator-empty && mkdir -p .tmp/iptvnator-empty
$ IPTVNATOR_E2E_DATA_DIR="$PWD/.tmp/iptvnator-empty" pnpm run serve:backend
This redirects the SQLite database, Electron user data, and local config under the given directory. Delete that directory whenever you want a fresh empty state.
If you need startup diagnostics for a white screen or a frozen route, you can also turn on opt-in Electron tracing. These logs are written to the Electron terminal output so they still help when the renderer DevTools never open:
$ IPTVNATOR_TRACE_STARTUP=1 pnpm run serve:backend
Nx equivalent:
$ IPTVNATOR_TRACE_STARTUP=1 nx serve electron-backend
Useful narrower flags:
IPTVNATOR_TRACE_IPC=1logs rendererwindow.electron.*calls reaching the Electron bridgeIPTVNATOR_TRACE_DB=1logs DB worker requests and request-scoped DB eventsIPTVNATOR_TRACE_SQL=1logs SQLite statements in both the main connection and DB worker connectionIPTVNATOR_TRACE_WINDOW=1logs BrowserWindow load, navigation, and unresponsive eventsIPTVNATOR_TRACE_RENDERER_CONSOLE=1mirrors renderer console messages into the Electron terminal output
Security-sensitive network compatibility flags are opt-in:
IPTVNATOR_ALLOW_PRIVATE_NETWORK_URLS=1permits strict EPG fetches from playlist metadata (x-tvg-url,url-tvg, ortvg-url) to resolve to localhost, LAN, or other private addresses. Directly configured Xtream/Stalker portals and private playlist servers remain supported without this flag. Prefer the in-app source-scoped “Allow source” action for a trusted EPG URL.IPTVNATOR_ALLOW_INSECURE_TLS=1disables certificate validation for remote playlist imports and refreshes for the whole Electron process. Prefer the in-app host-scoped trust action for a trusted provider with a self-signed or otherwise invalid certificate.
If the local Nx daemon gets into a bad state before rerunning Electron, reset it:
$ pnpm nx reset
To run only the Angular app without Electron, use:
$ pnpm run serve:frontend
Disclaimer
IPTVnator doesn't provide any playlists or other digital content.
Trademark
The name "IPTVnator" and the IPTVnator logo are unregistered trademarks of the project owner. The MIT license covers the source code only — it does not grant rights to the name or logo. Forks and redistributions (including app-store submissions) must use a different name and their own icon. See TRADEMARK.md for details.
