Extreme InfiniTV v1.8.0

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✨ Highlights

Tip

TMDb metadata is here. Add your own free TMDb API key under Settings > Network and every movie and series detail page lights up: cast with photos, director, ratings, similar titles and cinematic hero backdrops. It also powers the new genre categories and sharpens recommendations. Fully optional and off by default: no key, no external calls.

• 🔎 Search finds actors now. Type a name, open a person, and see everything they appear in across your playlists, plus "With " suggestion pills right under the movies and series search boxes.
• 🎭 Real genre categories. Action, Comedy, Horror and friends land in the category picker, assembled from provider data and TMDb, on top of your provider's raw categories.
• ▶️ Trailers play inside the app. The trailer button on detail pages now plays inline instead of kicking you out to YouTube.
• 🎬 MKV plays in-app on macOS and Linux, and Windows falls back to the same on-the-fly ffmpeg remux when its WebView cannot demux a file. Downloads included.
• 🌍 A language-aware library. "EN | DE | FR" variants of the same title collapse into one card with language pills; set a preferred content language and grids, sorting and recommendations respect it.
• 🎲 Surprise me. A random-title picker on the movies and series pages (press R), with year and not-watched-yet filters.

Everything else

Playback and reliability

• Fixed live channels freezing with MPEG audio on newer WebView2 versions ([Bug] The latest version cannot play live streams. #138), including automatic recovery and retuning raw-TS channels when the audio cannot decode.
• Quality badge on the player, playback stats overlay (Ctrl+Shift+S) and a per-session stream health log.
• Captions auto-on option for VOD subtitles, and honest error messages when a stream fails to start: the app now checks whether the provider actually served the file before blaming the video format.
• AVI entries automatically probe for a playable alternative container; external-player handoff improved.
• Movies and episodes start playing on open instead of waiting in pause, and the remux pipeline got a round of stall-recovery hardening.

Live TV and M3U

• M3U parity work: tvg-shift, multi-group group-title and multiple url-tvg EPG sources.
• Channels without a logo fall back to iptv-org's free logo collection.
• Expand/collapse for the EPG list on Live TV, and copy-URL / test-stream actions on series episode rows and movie posters.

Look and feel

• UI density presets and a new Small font-scale step.
• Per-playlist emoji and accent color, so switching playlists is recognizable at a glance.
• Collapsible sidebar with persistence, a refined glide-synced focus ring, hide-watched toggle, rating sort, recent searches, and posters/logos downscaled and cached on device for faster grids and less data.

Diagnostics and support

• Export diagnostics from Settings: a redacted ZIP with environment snapshot, network log and app-log tails, ready to attach to a bug report.
• The connection diagnostic now also probes the EPG, a sample stream and the update service; a developer-mode network log panel shows recent provider requests.
• Shared Android logs start with a session snapshot so they are diagnosable on their own.
• Plus: the UI no longer flashes English on startup for non-English locales, transient updater failures retry instead of failing silently, and download folders restored from another platform's backup are ignored gracefully.

Thanks

This release was shaped by your reports and ideas:

• @chuwza reported the live-stream freeze on newer WebView2 ([Bug] The latest version cannot play live streams. #138), fixed in this release with automatic recovery.
• @Hayjackjack01 reported the VOD ([Bug] VOD playback fails on Xtream playlist, Live TV unaffected #130) and AVI ([Bug] AVI playback #137) playback failures, which drove the AVI alternative-container probe, the honest start-failure messages and the new diagnostics export.
• @rowihel2026 requested actor search with genre categories (Please fix this bug and add this feature. #140) and inline trailers (Features suggestions for trailers and add open subtitles support #142), both shipped in this release.
• @ezeonyiro-create suggested the stream-quality indicator in the player (discussion New Feature Suggestions #136), shipped as the new quality badge.

Keep them coming in Issues and Discussions.

Downloads

The Microsoft Store, Google Play and Snap Store are the easiest path on Windows, Android and Linux. For direct downloads, expand the table and pick the file that matches your device.

All downloads (Windows, Windows on ARM, macOS, Linux x64/ARM64, Android)

Platform	File
Windows 10/11 (recommended installer)	Extreme InfiniTV_1.8.0_x64-setup.exe
Windows on ARM (Snapdragon laptops)	Extreme InfiniTV_1.8.0_arm64-setup.exe
Windows (MSI alternative)	Extreme InfiniTV_1.8.0_x64_en-US.msi
macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel)	Extreme InfiniTV_1.8.0_universal.dmg
Linux Snap (most distros)	Snap Store or sudo snap install extreme-infinitv
Linux Debian / Ubuntu / Mint	Extreme InfiniTV_1.8.0_amd64.deb
Linux ARM64 - Raspberry Pi 4/5 (64-bit OS), Debian / Ubuntu	Extreme InfiniTV_1.8.0_arm64.deb
Linux Fedora / openSUSE / RHEL	Extreme InfiniTV-1.8.0-1.x86_64.rpm
Linux Fedora / openSUSE / RHEL (ARM64)	Extreme InfiniTV-1.8.0-1.aarch64.rpm
Linux portable (any distro)	Extreme InfiniTV_1.8.0_amd64.AppImage
Linux portable (ARM64, any distro)	Extreme InfiniTV_1.8.0_aarch64.AppImage
Android sideload (APK)	Extreme InfiniTV_1.8.0.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.

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.

What's Changed

• v1.8.0: language grouping + preferred audio language, TMDB metadata + local recommendations, hide watched + surprise me, MKV remux playback + reliability, diagnostics toolkit, macOS fullscreen by @infinitel8p in v1.8.0: language grouping + preferred audio language, TMDB metadata + local recommendations, hide watched + surprise me, MKV remux playback + reliability, diagnostics toolkit, macOS fullscreen #133

Full Changelog: v1.7.1...v1.8.0

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