What is an IPTV player? What Tivelio does and doesn’t do

An IPTV player is an app that plays television and videos delivered over the internet, from a source that you add: an Xtream Codes account or an M3U playlist given by your IPTV provider. The player brings the interface (channel list, programme guide, player, search); the provider brings the channels and the programmes.

Tivelio is an IPTV player. It provides no content, no channels, no playlist and no subscription, and it does not recommend any provider.

What you need already

• an access from an IPTV provider that you are entitled to use: an Xtream access (a server address, a username and a password) or an M3U playlist (an address or a file);
• a device where Tivelio is published (see below) and an internet connection.

Not sure which access you have? Read Xtream Codes or M3U?.

What Tivelio does

• it plays the live channels, films and series of your subscription, in your provider’s categories;
• with an Xtream account: the programme guide, catch-up when your provider archives the channel, and Films and Series sections with rich pages;
• with an M3U playlist: the live channels and videos it lists, added by address, or from a file on phones, tablets, Chromebooks and computers;
• several accounts side by side, favourite lists, recently watched, one search for everything, parental control with a PIN, offline downloads of films and episodes, except on Apple TV;
• 30 languages, an interface built for the remote on TVs, the keyboard and the mouse on computers, the finger on phones.

Every feature with its platforms and its limits: the feature catalogue.

What Tivelio does not do

• it provides no channels, playlists or IPTV subscriptions, and sells no access to content;
• it does not record live TV or upcoming programmes: only a past programme from the catch-up archive can be saved on the device;
• no programme guide and no catch-up for an M3U playlist today;
• no external subtitle files (.srt, .vtt): only the subtitles carried by the stream;
• no backup or export of your configuration: a new device receives it by QR code, with Tivelio Pro.

Where Tivelio is available

LG and Samsung TVs are coming later.

Free, and what Tivelio Pro adds

Tivelio is free, with no time limit. Tivelio Pro adds seven options:

1. in-app picture-in-picture: the video keeps playing in a small window while you browse;
2. system picture-in-picture, outside the app: Android phones and tablets, iPhone, iPad, and Android TV when the TV supports it;
3. playback that continues when you leave the player screen;
4. playback that continues in the background when you leave the app: Android phones, tablets and Chromebooks;
5. restart playback when the app starts or when you come back to it;
6. reopen the screen you were on;
7. open the player directly.

Pro also unlocks what depends on these options: adding a device by QR code with a copy of your accounts and settings, and a second picture-in-picture window on Android TV. Everything else in the catalogue is free.

Tivelio Pro is monthly, annual or lifetime, with no free trial: see plans and prices.

One licence for 5 devices

A Tivelio Pro licence has 5 places: each device where you activate it takes one, on any platform, whatever store it was bought from. It is not 5 simultaneous streams: how many channels you can watch at the same time depends on your provider. To free a place, remove a device from the list in Settings › Pro feature.

Related

• Xtream Codes or M3U?
• IPTV glossary
• Feature catalogue
• All guides