{"id":33040,"date":"2020-12-04T16:11:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T16:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=33040"},"modified":"2025-01-28T10:28:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T10:28:43","slug":"hypnotix-linux-mint-developed-iptv-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/12\/hypnotix-linux-mint-developed-iptv-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypnotix &#8211; Watch Live TV via Linux Mint developed IPTV Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/hypnotix-icon.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-45268\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/hypnotix-icon-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/hypnotix-icon-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/hypnotix-icon-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/hypnotix-icon-700x700.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/hypnotix-icon-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/hypnotix-icon.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Want to watch live TV on Ubuntu Linux? Try Hypnotix, a new IPTV player developed by Linux Mint team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/linuxmint\/hypnotix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hypnotix<\/a> is a player application which streams from IPTV providers, which can be configured via a local M3U playlists, remote M3U URLs or the Xtream API.<\/p>\n<p>The player uses libmpv for video playback, and it&#8217;s configured to ship with Free-IPTV as default IPTV provider. You can easily remove it and set your own providers via software preferences dialog.<\/p>\n<p>Hypnotix can handle live TV channels but also VOD libraries for movies and TV series.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33045\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/hypnotix-vod1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/hypnotix-vod1.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/hypnotix-vod1-450x233.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Content can be organized by categories and\/or seasons. And you can watch TV in either left and right mode or full-screen mode.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33047\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/hypnotix-window1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/hypnotix-window1.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/hypnotix-window1-450x233.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>How to Install Hypnotix in Ubuntu:<\/h3>\n<p>Hypnotix is available out-of-the-box in Linux Mint 21.x, other Linux can the source code by visiting its project page:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/linuxmint\/hypnotix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hypnotix in Github<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Besides building from the source tarball, there&#8217;s also a <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~kelebek333\/+archive\/ubuntu\/mint-tools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">third-party PPA<\/a> contains the package for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 24.04. If you don&#8217;t know how to use the PPA, see this <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2021\/07\/install-linux-mint-apps-ppa-ubuntu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">step-by-step guide<\/a> instead.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to watch live TV on Ubuntu Linux? Try Hypnotix, a new IPTV player developed by Linux Mint team. Hypnotix is a player application which streams from IPTV providers, which can be configured via a local M3U playlists, remote M3U URLs or the Xtream API. The player uses libmpv for video playback, and it&#8217;s configured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[2006],"class_list":["post-33040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-app-review","tag-iptv"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}