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Features

Everything in one player.

What Universal Player does today on Android phones, tablets, Android TV and Google TV, with the sources you connect. What your source provides decides what you see.

Live TV

Browse large channel lists by category, see what is on, and switch channels without leaving the player.

  • Categories and a filter to find one quickly among hundreds
  • Now and Next on every channel that has guide data
  • Favorites, kept per source
  • Channel up and down from the player, and a channel list beside the picture
  • Search across all channels of a source
  • Continue watching the last channel from Home, only when you choose to

TV guide

A full programme guide from your source's XMLTV data or account, with programme details and catch-up marks.

  • Timetable across channels on TV and tablets; a per-channel schedule on phones
  • Programme details: time, description and whether it is on now
  • Catch-up marks on programmes that can be replayed
  • Jump to now and move between days

Catch-up

Replay earlier programmes when your source offers an archive for that channel.

  • Available only where the source says a channel has an archive
  • Seek back and forward through the programme
  • Go live returns to the channel at any moment

Movies

Your source's movie library as a poster grid, with details and resume.

  • Categories, orders and search
  • Details with synopsis, cast and artwork when the source provides them
  • Resume where you stopped, or play from the beginning
  • Continue watching and Recently added on Home

Series

Seasons and episodes from your source, with progress per episode.

  • Seasons and episode lists with runtime and progress
  • Resume the episode you were watching
  • Next episode when one ends, only when you choose it
  • Continue watching series on Home

Playback

A player built on Android's media framework, using the device's own hardware decoders.

  • Audio and subtitle track selection, including subtitles embedded in the stream
  • Picture modes: fit, stretch or zoom
  • Clear messages when a stream fails, a format is not supported or the provider refuses it
  • Background and foreground without losing your place

Sources

Add the M3U playlists and Xtream-compatible accounts you already have, and keep several side by side.

  • M3U and M3U8 playlists, Xtream-compatible accounts and XMLTV guides
  • Several sources on one device, each refreshed when you ask
  • Large libraries are loaded in the background and stay usable offline
  • Unencrypted HTTP sources only after you allow it for that source

Control and privacy

Settings that stay on the device and do what they say.

  • Hide adult content, on by default, for items your source marks as adult
  • Source details show when each catalogue and guide was last refreshed
  • A local diagnostics page for troubleshooting, without names, addresses or passwords