OmenPlayer 1.1.0

What's new in 1.1.0

Stalker/Ministra portal support (beta)

• Add a Stalker portal via Settings → Add playlist: portal URL + MAC
  address, with optional username/password for portals that require do_auth.
• Live TV, VOD and series (seasons/episodes), genres and EPG.
• Stream URLs are resolved through the portal's create_link right before
  playback, as the Stalker protocol requires; short-lived links are never
  cached or written to disk. The MAC credential is stored DPAPI-encrypted,
  like all other credentials.
• Beta: built against the documented portal API shapes. If your portal
  misbehaves (handshake, VOD listing, series), please open an issue with the
  relevant lines from %AppData%/Omen/OmenPlayer/logs/omen.log.

MPV backend out of the box (beta)

• The installer now bundles libmpv-2.dll, so MPV Player (beta) appears
  under Settings → Player without any manual DLL hunting. VLC remains the
  default player.
• For source builds, the new scripts/fetch-mpv.ps1 downloads a pinned,
  SHA-256-verified libmpv build (shinchiro mpv-winbuild).

Notes

• The installer is larger than 1.0.0 (~72 MB) because libmpv now ships
  alongside libVLC.
• See THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md for the licensing of all bundled components.

OmenPlayer 1.0.0

First public release of OmenPlayer — a native Windows IPTV player written in C++20 with Qt 6 and libVLC.

No licence key, no account, no feature gates. Your IPTV credentials stay on your machine, DPAPI-encrypted.

Install

Download OmenPlayer-Setup-1.0.0.exe below and run it. Windows 10/11, 64-bit. The installer is per-user by default, so it needs no administrator rights. Then add a playlist via Settings → Add playlist.

What's in it

• Sources — M3U/M3U8 (URL or local file, incl. .gz), Xtream Codes (live, VOD, series), and Plex. Multiple providers merge into one library without ID collisions.
• Guide — XMLTV EPG with a virtualised grid, now/next with progress, a day view, and a fullscreen overlay guide.
• Playback — libVLC: HLS, MPEG-TS, MKV/HEVC/AC3, auto-reconnect with backoff, theatre mode, click-to-seek, audio delay, subtitle styling, resume of the last watched channel.
• Extras — Multi-view (up to four streams), DVR (immediate and scheduled), Windows auto frame-rate matching, OpenSubtitles search, MDBList ratings and Discover rows, instant local search, catch-up, EN/NL localisation.
• Starts from a binary playlist cache in roughly 0.4 s rather than an ~18 s network round-trip.

Notes

• OmenPlayer ships no channels, streams or content. It is a player, like VLC — you bring your own playlist or provider subscription.
• Licensed GPL-3.0-or-later. This release bundles VLC's plugin set, which includes GPL-2.0-or-later modules; see THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt in the install directory and THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.
• Building from source: see the README. libVLC is not vendored; scripts/fetch-vlc.ps1 fetches it.