IP-TV Player is a free program for convenient viewing of IP-TV for those to whom the provider provides this service. The program is based on the famous VideoLAN VLC and represents its more convenient shell. Besides, IP-TV Player is recommended to providers as a ready-made solution for users - installation and automatic configuration for IPTV clients with the help of IP-TV Player takes place in a few clicks, and providers can build their own branded installer for free.
In addition to viewing channels, recording is also possible. Moreover, recording in IP-TV Player is just a recording, i.e. it is a simple copying of the received data to the hard disk without re-encoding and without any load on the processor. With sufficient bandwidth of the subscriber line, the program allows you to simultaneously record several other channels while watching one channel (unless the provider blocks this). A scheduler can start recording or viewing at a set time, and the TV guide is downloaded automatically in XMLTV, JTV or TXT format.
IPTV (also known as DVB-IP or TVoIP) is NOT Internet Television. It only uses this data transmission protocol to send video content, but is not connected to the Internet. The IPTV service is provided by YOUR PROVIDER, transmitting video streams through its transport network, followed by viewing the channels on a computer or a special set-top box (Set-Top Box). IPTV resembles regular cable television, only it comes into the house not through a coaxial cable, but through the same channel as the Internet (Ethernet). If your provider does not provide this service or only through a set-top box, you do not need IP-TV Player. Also, if the provider encrypts the channels (DRM, CAS), the player will be useless for you, too. The player opens unencrypted UDP multicast, HTTP, HLS and RTMP streams and M3U channel lists, any smartphone can serve as its remote control, and it runs on Windows XP, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 and 11.
The main benefit of using IP-TV Player is its ability to conveniently view, record and store multiple IPTV channels simultaneously without burdening the processor.