Extreme InfiniTV v1.6.3

[infinitel8p]

Extreme InfiniTV v1.6.3 brings MPEG-DASH playback with ClearKey DRM, one-click HEVC decoding in the embedded player on Windows, automatic native-player fallback on Android when a channel can't be decoded in-app, a "What's new" dialog after updates, and fixes for playlists on non-standard ports and password-protected URLs.

TL;DR

• HEVC (H.265) in the embedded player on Windows. When an HEVC channel can't start, the playback-failure panel now offers Enable HEVC playback: one click installs Microsoft's HEVC Video Extension and retries the channel. Microsoft Store installs of the app are sent to the Store page for the extension instead, since packaged apps can't install it silently.
• DASH DRM is local ClearKey only. Playlists carrying #KODIPROP ClearKey keys (KID:KEY pairs) play out of the box. License-server URLs (Widevine, PlayReady, or remote ClearKey endpoints) are not supported.
• Android can now switch players on its own. If a live channel fails because the in-app player can't decode it (HEVC on devices without a licensed decoder, exotic codecs), the app hands the stream to the native player automatically and tells you with a toast. The "Native Android video player" setting itself remains off by default.

Changelog v1.6.3

New

• MPEG-DASH (.mpd) playback. Live channels served as DASH manifests now play in the embedded player via shaka-player, alongside the existing HLS and MPEG-TS engines. The M3U parser understands #KODIPROP:inputstream.adaptive.* tags, so manifest type and ClearKey DRM keys travel from the playlist straight into the player. Fixes [Feature] MPEG-DASH (.mpd) manifest support #103.
• Guided HEVC decoder install on Windows. The failure panel's Enable HEVC playback button downloads a SHA-256-verified copy of Microsoft's HEVC Video Extension and installs it on the spot, so HEVC channels play in-app instead of needing an external player.
• Native player fallback on Android. Channels that fail with a codec or DRM error the in-app player can't handle are handed off to the native player automatically, with a localized toast explaining the switch.
• "What's new" dialog. After an update, the app shows the release notes for every version you skipped (you are reading this text in it right now). A "What's new" section in Settings shows the full release history any time.
• Persistent desktop logs. The desktop app now writes one redacted log file per day, and Settings > Storage gained an Open log folder button so the right file is easy to attach to a bug report.

Improved

• Credentials never reach the logs. URLs are redacted everywhere they are logged or shown in error messages: user:pass@ userinfo, credential query parameters, and /live/<user>/<pass>/ path segments are all masked.
• Clearer playback errors. DRM failures (unsupported ClearKey, EME errors) are now classified separately from plain codec failures, so the failure panel says what actually went wrong instead of a generic message.
• All 16 languages up to date. Every new string in this release ships fully translated, and existing translations were refreshed where the English wording changed.

Fixed

• Playlists and streams on non-standard ports. M3U playlists like http://host:8080/list.m3u (any explicit port) failed to load in the desktop and Android apps because the HTTP permission scope rejected them; the scope now allows every port. Reported by @li1422665717 in [Feature] MPEG-DASH (.mpd) manifest support #103.
• Password-protected playlist and stream URLs. URLs with embedded credentials (http://user:pass@host/...) were rejected by the network layer; credentials are now converted to a proper Authorization header, and malformed userinfo containing raw /, ?, or # is repaired instead of failing. Fixes [Feature] Supports loading m3u links and channel links that “require password authentication” #104, requested by @chuwza.
• "What's new" could miss releases. Release-notes fetching was capped at the 10 most recent entries; the cap is now 30, so the dialog shows the full gap even after skipping many versions.

Under the hood

• shaka-player joins hls.js and mpegts.js as the DASH engine, loaded lazily on first DASH tune; @tauri-apps/plugin-log powers the daily desktop log files.
• Catalog cache schema v2. Cached playlist entries now carry the DASH/DRM fields; existing caches re-parse automatically on first launch.
• Android NDK 26 → 29. Native libraries are now aligned for 16 KB memory pages, meeting Google Play's requirement for apps targeting Android 15+.

Thanks

This release was shaped by community reports and requests. Thank you to:

• @chuwza for requesting support for password-authenticated playlists and channels ([Feature] Supports loading m3u links and channel links that “require password authentication” #104)
• @li1422665717 for reporting playlists on non-standard ports failing to load ([Feature] MPEG-DASH (.mpd) manifest support #103)

Downloads

Pick the file that matches your device. Click a filename to download it directly. The Microsoft Store and Google Play buttons below are the easiest path on Windows and Android.

Platform	File
Windows 10/11 (recommended installer)	Extreme InfiniTV_1.6.3_x64-setup.exe
Windows (MSI alternative)	Extreme InfiniTV_1.6.3_x64_en-US.msi
macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel)	Extreme InfiniTV_1.6.3_universal.dmg
Linux Debian / Ubuntu / Mint	extreme-infinitv_1.6.3_amd64.deb
Linux Fedora / openSUSE / RHEL	extreme-infinitv-1.6.3-1.x86_64.rpm
Linux portable (any distro)	extreme-infinitv_1.6.3_amd64.AppImage
Android sideload (APK)	Extreme InfiniTV_1.6.3.apk

What about the .sig files, latest.json and the macOS .app.tar.gz?

You can ignore them.

• *.sig and latest.json are used by the built-in auto-updater to verify each download is genuinely signed. The app downloads them on its own when checking for updates.
• Extreme InfiniTV_universal.app.tar.gz is the macOS update bundle consumed by the same updater. For a fresh install on macOS, use the .dmg instead.
• The .aab files are uploaded to Google Play and are not meant for sideloading - _tv.aab is the Android TV build (open-testing track), the other is phone / tablet. Use the .apk to install manually.

macOS: "Extreme InfiniTV.app" cannot be opened / "Apple could not verify..."

The macOS build is not yet notarized by Apple, so Gatekeeper blocks it on first launch. After dragging the app from the .dmg into /Applications, remove the quarantine flag from a Terminal:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Extreme InfiniTV.app"

Then open the app normally. You only need to do this once per install.

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This discussion was created from the release Extreme InfiniTV v1.6.3.

[emar]

Your app is very well designed, appreciate you great work, and releasing it freely, that's class.

Windows 11 Pro. Downloaded from Microsoft App Store.

This is not a big deal, as in it doesn't affect the experience.
When I go full screen, sometimes there's a white border under the player, where the Windows taskbar resides.
This could be an issue on my end, just thought I'd let you know, I don't have the taskbar set to auto-hide.

[infinitel8p]

thank you for the info, ill have a look at it in #112