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Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

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Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

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Post by ssl-3 »

dtagames wrote: post #28

For a no hacks alternative, I built TV Explorer. It puts the channel's published HLS stream into your browser with no interim steps. Uses the public GitHub list of more than 10,000 free channels. https://tvexplorer.live

That is an unbelievably slick thing that you've got there.

It feels very light-weight, it's approximately instantly-responsive. Back button works. I don't understand the stats (or my contribution to them), but whatever.

(the closed-captioning pop-up causes some overlay issues for me, though)

moar edit: Upon further review with my very not-special desktop box, I'm reasonably confident that this is the quickest, most-responsive "TV-watching" experience I've had since analog NTSC left the scene ~eons ago. It's fast like switching from channel 11 to channel 13 used to be with the very quickest and most well-behaved of tuners.

What aren't you doing that everyone else is doing?

Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

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Post by slg »

xonery wrote: post #26
quantummagic wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It could just be streaming the trailer.

Main use case

I mean I get it, but also it's funny that you commented this 5 minutes after you edited the readme[1] to add in the exact type of plausible deniability I remarked was absent.

[1] - https://github.com/stupside/castor/commit/847abd1ad0dbe893fc...

Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

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Post by jusonchan81 »

dtagames wrote: post #28

For a no hacks alternative, I built TV Explorer. It puts the channel's published HLS stream into your browser with no interim steps. Uses the public GitHub list of more than 10,000 free channels. https://tvexplorer.live

This is incredible! It loaded so fast on my mobile and I’m able to watch channels from all over. Amazing stuff man. It requires a thread of its own

Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

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Post by liamwire »

dtagames wrote: post #28

For a no hacks alternative, I built TV Explorer. It puts the channel's published HLS stream into your browser with no interim steps. Uses the public GitHub list of more than 10,000 free channels. https://tvexplorer.live

This is fantastic, as others have said. Could you talk a bit about how it's so wonderfully fast?

Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

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Post by kls0e »

ranger_danger wrote: post #21

Can you cast to a Roku device with this?

I tried with v1.4.1, TVs running Roku TV do not seem to be supported at this point of time, at least "castor scan" does not yield any results. Roku TV does support Apple AirPlay as an add-on as you probably know.

Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

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Post by nchagnet »

dtagames wrote: post #28

For a no hacks alternative, I built TV Explorer. It puts the channel's published HLS stream into your browser with no interim steps. Uses the public GitHub list of more than 10,000 free channels. https://tvexplorer.live

This is such a high quality TV viewing experience, I really love it! Amazing work!

Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

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Post by boromi »

dtagames wrote: post #28

For a no hacks alternative, I built TV Explorer. It puts the channel's published HLS stream into your browser with no interim steps. Uses the public GitHub list of more than 10,000 free channels. https://tvexplorer.live

very cool. How would have this on actual TV? Load it in the built in browser?
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