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TV-Lite is a IPTV player, with Sopcast and Acestream handling capabilities. It uses the well known VLC for displaying media. This program currently runs on Linux and Windows operating systems,

TV-Lite wants to be a replacement for the older TV-Maxe. It does not have all the features that TV-Maxe offers. It uses the same principle of "subscriptions" and  uses the same playlist format TV-Maxe uses.  Apart from that, it can handle the ubiquitous M3U format used for many IPTV playlists. It aims to streamline a bit the behavior of TV-Maxe in respect to subscriptions. The subscriptions can be downloaded and saved as local playlists, that can be edited and new channels can be added, or the existent channels can be edited.

The subscriptions can only be updated, of course,  but copies of them can be always saved locally, and modified as stated above.

You have to install Acestream and, optionally Sopcast, for this program to be able to handle the respective stream types. Acestream offers a snap pakage, which is easy to find for Ubuntu and other Linux distros with Snap support. Sopcast is currently harder to install, as it seems that is no longer maintained for Linux. It is offered as a 32 bit binary only, and requires libstdc++5 to run.

TV-Lite version 0.8.2

13 October 2026 11:59:53 AM

This is not a ground-breaking release, but a maintenance one. However it paves the way for some possible changes that will happen in the future. The long-awaited arrival of VLC 4. Also a possible wxWidgets 3.4 release.

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Experimental Release - Windows Dark mode Support

07 October 2026 5:44:06 PM

I've just released an experimental TV-Lite with dark mode support. However, being based on a development release of wxWidgets, it still has its quirks. Nevertheless, it respects the Windows theming.
Overall, the Windows users have now the chance to see TV-Lite "in tune" with the applications based on some newer frameworks. 

 

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TV-Lite VLC4 porting effort

21 May 2026 11:30:49 AM

Currently doing some work, intending to port TV-Lite to use libVLC4. Things are shaping nicely. Currently only aiming to port the existent functionality 

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