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Your playlists

Settings › Content › IPTV › Add playlist, or a configuration file. A playlist is named after its file (…/sports.m3u8: sports) or its own name. An Xtream account (Add Xtream account): its server, username and password; its channels are a playlist (Xtream · server), with its TV guide. A Stalker portal (Add Stalker portal): its address (http://portal.example.com/c/) and the MAC address your provider registered; its channels are a playlist (Stalker · portal), a row per genre. Its own TV guide isn't read: set one with Guide link. Each shows its counts, last download and any error (a failed refresh keeps the saved copy).

• ▲ / ▼ set the order: a channel in two playlists comes from the first, and rows follow the order.
• OK on one: Rename, Turn off / Turn on (off: its channels hidden, its copy kept), Edit link, Guide link, Reload, Remove.
• A big Stalker portal: Channel groups (OK on it) reads only the genres you tick.
• Auto-refresh (Off by default): every hour, 3, 6 or 12 hours, all playlists and their TV guides are downloaded again, as Reload does, so a channel whose guide came late is back on the Guide tab. Never while something plays.

Films and series from Xtream and Stalker

An Xtream account's films and series come with its channels, as do a Stalker portal's (experimental):

• Browse: a row per account or portal in Movies and Series, newest first (a show is one tile, its episodes on its page); Discover lists them by the provider's categories, and Search looks through them. The IPTV tab keeps the live channels only.
• On your own titles: a film or episode you open from your addons lists the provider's copy among its sources (Xtream, Stalker). Order it, or turn it off, in Source ranking's addons list.
• Xtream, the first time: the account's list is read (a minute or two for a big one, then once a day): until then its row, Search and copies stay empty. Reload on the account (Settings › Content › IPTV) reads its films and series again at once.
• Stalker: titles are read as you browse; a copy is found by searching the portal by name. A portal without a series section may list its shows among the films.
• A copy plays only if the TV plays its file: MKV with DTS sound often doesn't.
• A provider listing no films or series adds nothing; its entries play as it marks them (live: no seeking).

Watching

• ★ Favorites: hold OK on a channel card, then Add to favorites. They're a row of their own, first on the IPTV tab (all of them, up to 300) and on the Guide tab.
• IPTV and Radio rows, a row per group; a channel's details name its playlist.
• Films in a playlist: a file's link (.mkv, .mp4…, an Xtream /movie/ or /series/ one), or a DASH or HLS film, can be scrubbed through; Continue Watching doesn't keep it.
• Sports: channels marked tvg-type="sport" (or "sports", StremioK's own mark) go to the Sports tab.
• Guide only: channels marked tvg-type="guide" show on the Guide tab alone; OK on a program finds that film in your addons (else Search).
• CH+ / CH− switch through the row a channel came from; the one you stop on starts after a short pause; BACK lands on its card.
• A channel's number: type its position in that row (7, or 1 then 2 for 12).
• Live streams show ● LIVE: no seeking or resume.
• DRM channels: Widevine and PlayReady play if the playlist's license server licenses the TV; ClearKey with its keys or key server, through Shaka Player (only what you're entitled to).
• YouTube live channels (youtube.com, youtu.be links) play too, as does an Xtream channel leading there.
• Choppy sound on some channels is fixed on its own: the channel restarts ("Fixing this channel's sound…").
• Closed captions in a channel's picture (CC1–CC4): Green lists Closed captions (CC1); picking one restarts the channel with them. Ones in your default subtitle language turn on by themselves. HLS only: on Xtream, switch Format to HLS.

TV guide

• Where it comes from: the guide link a playlist names (url-tvg), or an Xtream playlist's (get.php) own guide. Guide link (OK on a playlist) sets another, or puts back the automatic one. It's read again every 6 hours, or at once with the playlist's Reload (its limits: TV guide).
• A channel is matched by its tvg-id, else by its name. One without a logo in its playlist gets the guide's.
• Channel cards show what's on now and how far along it is; Home's details strip adds its description and what's next.
• While a channel plays, the bar at the bottom shows Now and Next.
• Hold OK on a channel card for its schedule, from 2 hours ago to tomorrow: ▶ Watch now plays it, ★ Add to / Remove from favorites, and OK on a program shows its description.
• A guide's program pictures show in the details strip (a channel's card, the Guide tab).
• The Guide tab (once a guide is read): your channels with a guide, a row each, across 2½ hours from the current half hour, with a line at the time now. ← / → go from program to program (the hours move past the edge), ↑ / ↓ to the channel above or below at the same time. The details strip describes the focused program; OK on what's on now (or a row still Loading…) plays the channel (CH+ / CH− then go through the Guide's channels), on a later one shows its description. BACK, or a channel that stops, lands on the channel you ended on.
• Hold OK on a program in the Guide tab: ▶ Watch now (what's on now), ★ Add to / Remove from favorites (its channel), and Find in your addons: a film opens its page with your sources, anything else Search.