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Xtream player for TV, phone and desktop

An Xtream player, or Xtream Codes IPTV player, is an app that signs in to an IPTV server with three details (a server address, a username and a password) and then displays what that account gives access to. Tivelio is one: enter the access your provider gave you, and your live channels, films and series are imported into one catalogue.

Tivelio is a player only. It provides no account, no server, no channels and no subscription, and it never suggests a provider.

What Xtream Codes means

Xtream Codes is the name of a server software whose interface, the Xtream Codes API, is used today by many IPTV servers. Where an M3U playlist is a fixed list of streams, an Xtream account is a conversation with the server: the player logs in, then asks for the categories, the channels, the films, the series, the programme data and the archive.

That is why an Xtream access shows more in a player than a playlist of the same subscription.

What an Xtream account brings in Tivelio

  • Live TV: the channels, in your provider’s categories.
  • TV guide (EPG): what is on now and next, and a full programme grid, when your provider publishes a guide.
  • Catch-up: past programmes replayed from the guide, on the channels your provider archives.
  • Films: a Films section with rich pages (cast, genres, IMDb link) and resume where you stopped.
  • Series: seasons and episodes, with resume on each episode.
  • Offline: films and episodes can be downloaded to the device, except on Apple TV.
  • Refresh: the catalogue is refreshed automatically.
  • Several accounts: keep several accounts side by side and switch without typing your credentials again.

What you see depends on your subscription: Tivelio shows what the server sends, nothing more. A channel without a guide or without an archive on the server has none in the app.

Sign in

You need the three details from your provider:

  • the server address, usually with a port, for example http://example.com:8080;
  • your username;
  • your password.
  1. Open Tivelio and choose Xtream on the first launch, or go to Accounts in the app menu and add an account.
  2. Give the connection a name, then enter the server address with its port, your username and your password.
  3. Confirm. Tivelio connects and imports the live channels, the films and the series.

Step by step: Add an Xtream account.

If the server refuses the connection, Tivelio shows the reason it was given, for example wrong credentials or an expired account. Each message is explained in Xtream Codes login not working. Never send your provider password to anyone, including our support.

Where you can use it

The same Xtream player runs on every platform where Tivelio is published:

The LG and Samsung TV apps are under review and not available yet.

Look at it first: an address that contains get.php?username=…&password=… is an Xtream access in another form. Paste it in the M3U playlist form, and Tivelio recognises it and adds it as an Xtream account. A plain playlist is read too, without the TV guide or catch-up: see M3U player and Xtream Codes or M3U?.

Free, with an optional Pro licence

Tivelio is free, and an Xtream account needs no purchase in the app. Tivelio Pro adds picture-in-picture, playback that continues outside the player and in the background (phone and tablet), resume at startup and adding a device by QR code, which copies your accounts and settings to the new device. One licence covers 5 devices, on every system. See plans and prices.