On Wednesday 29 July 2026 19:04:55 dep via tde-users wrote:
said William Morder via tde-users: | I have only recently tried streaming some online television channels | using VLC, due to my discovering a couple of YUGE playlists on github.
Can't solve your VLC issue, but I can highly recommend a proper application devoted to that purpose. It is IPTVnator:
https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator
I built two homemade television sets using it, the iptv-org playlists and some others, and Debian running on Raspberry Pi machines.
My curiosity has been piqued. Do you use an external hdmi monitor, or some such setup? I sometimes find old cabinets, and think of putting in a monitor, running from a Raspberry Pi, etc.
Also, I may have some other uses for a R Pi in the future, so now is maybe my opportunity to learn. More on that later.
Those are the only televisions I currently own. I have it, too, on my desktop machine running TDE, so I know they're happy together. (Navigate to what you want, click to watch it, double click on the program to make it full screen; esc will return you to the video with the guide on the side.) I've used both the regular application and the appimage; you might try the latter to see if you like it.) It can use VLC as its player, but I'm content with the built-in one, which is javascript.
Okay, downloaded the deb package, installed, got it up and running. It accepts my playlist just fine (and I like the fact that it takes m3u8 playlists, because they are just plain text).
Only one problem, and it's kinda a big one: NO SOUND, nor any way that I can find to enable it, increase it, etc. I did look under the hood for the controls, tried increasing volume, but nothing happens. I don't suppose this is one of those things that uses pulseaudio and won't take alsa? That's a deal breaker for me, as pulseaudio always, always, always messes up my settings, so I either purge everything to do with it, or at least disable all its evil spawn. Maybe there is some way to get it to use alsa?
Also, I tried to find some kind of preferences, settings, etc., comparable to VLC, and nothing doing.
It works, I'll give it that; whereas VLC is still crashing on me. But it's a little simpler than I would like where I want equalizers, spatializers, dolby, all that stuff.
Also I would rather not use javascript for streaming, if (for example) I should find a way to use it over a proxy. Maybe I am too picky.
Well, whatever I can get to work would be nice: vlc, this iptvnator, anything else that is recommended. Since I already know VLC (and have my settings already configured from previous installations), I would prefer to use that.
If anybody can help to get me going with VLC, or this or any other decent iptv streaming program, I would be most grateful.
Bill