Guides

Short, practical answers to the things people get stuck on — written for someone who already has a playlist or an account and wants it playing.

• How to open an M3U playlist on iPhone

  Add an M3U or M3U8 playlist to your iPhone in under a minute — from a URL, a file in Files, or a link someone sent you. Step by step, with the errors that come up.

• How to log in with Xtream Codes on iPhone

  Connect an Xtream Codes account on iPhone using your server URL, username and password — and what each of the common login errors actually means.

• Setting up the programme guide (EPG)

  Get a working TV guide in your IPTV player: where XMLTV data comes from, how channels are matched to it, and why the guide can look empty or shifted by hours.

• How to fix IPTV buffering

  Stuttering, spinning, dropping out mid-programme — how to tell whether the cause is your connection, your provider or the stream format, and what to change for each.

• M3U vs Xtream Codes

  The same channels, two ways to reach them. What each connection method actually does, where each one is better, and how to tell which one your provider gave you.

• An IPTV player built for iPad

  Watch your own IPTV playlist or Xtream account on iPad, with a layout built for the larger screen, Split View, Stage Manager and picture in picture.