It's about as much effort as a torrent, so I don't see the point.
Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
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Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
#82For 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-r…
Thank you so much! What a nice thing to hear.
The short version is that it uses my own engine, called Watson. I used to work for a small game studio inside a big company and my specialty was tooling. I had built my own before I started there and when they shutdown, it evolved into Watson[0].
It's lightweight because it's a static site with no server, it has no spying code or SDKs, and it puts the broadcasters HLS stream URL directly into a element in your browser with minimal intervention.
Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
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-r…
> Back button works Maybe a little too well... I tried a whole bunch of channels to get an idea of which ones work, and my history was too full to get out of the site. Maybe every channel change doesn't need to push to your history list.
Very good point. Thank you, and I'll put a limit on it. 10?
Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
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-r…
> What aren't you doing that everyone else is doing? Seems to be the fact that there's no advertising, tracking or other SDKs and the entire JS is contained in two files.
Thank you for noticing!
Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
#85For 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
Thank you so much! Devs sometimes don't hear the good stuff about our work and I'm thrilled that you're enjoying it.
Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
#86For 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 amazing! Can this be self hosted?
It is a static site that doesn't require a server and can be hosted anywhere.
Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
#87For 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!
Thank you very much. I'm delighted that you like it!
Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
#88For 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?
Thank you! That's so great to hear! I wrote a little bit about that here:
Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
#89For 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?
You can cast from a Chrome browser to an Android TV or Chromecast device:
https://tvexplorer.live/help/ways-to-watch
and...
Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
#90For 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-r…
Looks potentially very nice but the majority of the channels I tried were "blocked in my area or not broadcasting"