Want to watch TV on Ubuntu and Debian based Linux systems? A M3U IPTV Player, called Hypnotix, developed by Linux Mint now is available for testing.
It’s still too soon to say whether this will be part of Linux Mint and how much we can focus on its development, but we got enough enthusiasm here to get the project started and build a prototype called Hypnotix.
Hypnotix is written in Python 3 and uses libmpv library for video playback. It’s now in early ALPHA stage, with no translations and a very minimal user interface and set of features.
The player comes configured with a free content provider (FreeIPTV) which provides streams for a variety of TV stations. So far you can add / change the provider by either gsettings
command or Dconf Editor (available in Ubuntu Software) by going to org > x > hypnotix > providers.
Now it has a preference screen to configure multiple TV providers. These providers can be configured via a local M3U playlists, remote M3U URLs or the Xtream API. There will be more enhancements, e.g., custom categories, favorites, EPG support, PVR, hide unused content. And Linux Mint 20.1 is planned to ship with the IPTV Player.
How to Install Hypnotix IPTV Player:
For Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint based systems, a .deb
package is available to download at the link below:
Grab the package and then install it via:
- Open
terminal
and run command to install the deb:sudo apt install ./Downloads/hypnotix*.deb
- And install the mpv client library if you don’t have it:
sudo apt install libmpv1
For other Linux, you may build from the source code which is available in Github:
via: Linux Mint blog
Hi, I’ve tried to install hypnotix on Elementary os (based on Ubuntu 18.04) in two different ways. It install, but it never works. I have python 3 installed and libmpv1 was already installed. I tried the deb (removed it after it did not work) and then I tried:
git clone https://github.com/linuxmint/hypnotix.git
cd hypnotix
dpkg-buildpackage
sudo dpkg -i ../hypnotix*.deb
The only error during install this way is these:
…
dpkg-buildpackage: info: full upload; Debian-native package (full source is included)
signfile hypnotix_1.3.dsc
gpg: keybox ‘/home/aryan/.gnupg/pubring.kbx’ created
gpg: skipped “Clement Lefebvre root@linuxmint.com“: No secret key
gpg: dpkg-sign.t6biZZKT/hypnotix_1.3.dsc: clear-sign failed: No secret key
Did you try the deb binary for version 1.1?
Hello Merilyn Ne,
Yes, I installed version 1.1 deb and installed python 3.
The requirements
* libxapp 1.4+
* libmpv
* python3-imdbpy
are all installed. Now I see it in the start menu, and when I click it, it shows up in the Dock for about 15 seconds and then disappears. If I run it from the terminal it shows me this:
I would gladly install any other IPTV player for Linux, but I haven’t found any (or any that works).
I run elementary OS 5.1.7 Hera built on Ubuntu 18.04, Dual-Core Intel® Celeron® G4900 CPU @ 3.10GHz, Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 610, 4 GB RAM.
Sorry I don’t have eOS, but the IPTV works on my Ubuntu 18.04 by installing the updated versions of the three required packages:
Install Python3-imdbpy, you can download the deb package from https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/python3-imdbpy
Get updated libmpv package from this PPA (do also add the ffmpeg dependency PPA, see PPA description). After added the PPAs, run command: