IPTV Viewer

A media player aimed at facilitating watching IPTV streams.

Usage

Grab the m3u from your IPTV service provider, load it in the application and start watching TV. While the m3u can contain any kind of files, and therefore the player can play any media files from it (local or remote), the media player provides features suitable for managing the streams and playlists provided by IPTV service providers. For other kind of media, other players (for example VLC) are probably better suited (and have more features).

Free IPTV Channels

The https://github.com/Free-TV/IPTV repository maintains a list of free TV channels

Screenshot

Build it from source

Prerequisites

• Git
• A C++20 capable compiler (does not need to be fully compliant)
• Cmake 3.20+
• VcPkg
• LibMPV

Setup your development environment

• Windows
  • Install VS2022 (can be Community edition) with the C++ Support package
  • Install prerequisites (git, cmake, ninja, wixtoolset, powershell-core)
  • One simple powershell script to install everything via Chocolatey:

    Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
    
    choco feature enable -n allowGlobalConfirmation
    choco install 7zip.install
    choco install git.install
    choco install cmake.install --installargs 'ADD_CMAKE_TO_PATH=System'
    choco install ninja 
    choco install wixtoolset 
    choco install powershell-core
    

  • Install vcpkg (assuming the vcpkg folder will be E:\projects\vcpkg. Change as desired.)

    New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path E:\projects\
    cd E:\projects\
    git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git
    cd vcpkg
    .\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat
    

  • Install libmpv for windows prebuilt DLL, and youtube-dl.exe

    New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path E:\projects\mpv
    cd E:\projects\mpv
    
    # Download the latest release from libmpv folder, manually
    Start-Process https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpv-player-windows/files/libmpv/
    
    

    Download mpv-dev-x86_64-.7z from that sourceforge page. Extract it somewhere (E:\projects\mpv). Edit the mpv.def file, and insert these 2 lines at the top:

        LIBRARY MPV-2
        EXPORTS
    

    Then in that mpv folder, from a VS2022 Developer command prompt run : lib /dev:mpv.def /machine:x64 /out:mpv.lib
  • Done with windows. Wasn't that hard now, was it?
• Linux Debian 11 (and Debian based distributions)

  apt install -y dpkg build-essential cmake gcc g++ git \
              libmpv-dev ca-certificates curl zip unzip tar libglu1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dev \
              pkg-config generate-ninja ninja-build libxmu-dev libxi-dev libgl-dev
  

• Linux Fedora (34+)

  dnf install -yq \
  http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm \
  http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm && \
  rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-latest && \
  rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-latest
  

  dnf -yq install cmake gcc g++ pkgconf-pkg-config git \
      tar rpm-build ninja-build perl-FindBin perl-English perl-File-Compare \
      ibus-devel libXmu-devel libXi-devel mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel \
      mpv-libs-devel
  

Actually building the executable

cd <projects folder>

git clone https://github.com/sgiurgiu/iptview.git

• Linux

  mkdir build && cd build

  cmake -GNinja -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=<vcpkg folder>/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release <git cloned folder>

  ninja

  And now run it from that folder with src/iptview

• Windows

    cmake -B . -S <git cloned folder> -G Ninja -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=<vcpkg folder>/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake -DVCPKG_TARGET_TRIPLET=x64-windows-static -DENABLE_TESTS=False -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCPACK_GENERATOR=WIX -DLIBMPV_DIR="<libmpv folder>" -DLIBMPV_INCLUDE="<libmpv include folder>"
    cmake --build .
  

The scripts that build it on windows and linux can be found in the scripts folder. Those scripts are the authority when it comes to the process of building a package for a particular OS should this readme not be updated.