Extreme InfiniTV v1.9.0

[infinitel8p]

A real Android TV interface, casting between your own devices, and metadata that needs no API key.

Important

💬 There is a Discord now. Come ask for help, follow the betas, or push for the feature you want: discord.gg/GH5V3AkzfA. There is a link in Settings too.

✨ Highlights

Tip

The app has a TV interface now. On an Android TV, Fire TV Stick or any leanback device, Extreme InfiniTV opens a dedicated 10-foot UI built for a remote: home rails, a card-based Live TV with now/next progress, movie and series grids, detail pages, search, downloads and settings. There is no switch to flip, a TV device is detected and every screen routes to its TV twin automatically.

• 📡 Cast from one device to another. Any install can become a receiver: pair it with a code and send live channels, movies, series episodes and catch-up replays to it from your phone or desktop. You get a full remote (fullscreen on mobile, a side panel on desktop), a floating "casting to TV" pill, and cast playback counts toward Continue Watching. Discovery works over mDNS and Android NSD, with a subnet sweep for networks that block multicast.
• 🎬 Metadata without an API key. TheTVDB is now the default source and needs no key at all, so cast, artwork, descriptions and genres show up on a fresh install. A TMDb key is still supported and fills any gaps, and a plot in your own language is no longer overwritten with the English one.
• 🌌 Ambient screensaver. When a receiver goes idle it drifts through artwork from your own library, led by what is trending and topped up with what you have been watching, with channel and title logos instead of plain text. On Android TV it also installs as a system daydream.
• ⚡ Opens faster. Cached content now paints immediately and refreshes behind you instead of holding the screen until everything is hydrated, and a wedged storage backend can no longer block the first paint or quietly lose writes.
• 🎨 Five new accent colors (gold, lime, teal, silver, white) plus an option that rolls a random one on every launch.

Everything else

On the TV

• Live TV is card-based: pill categories, logo tiles with now/next progress bars, and a guide panel with a "now" hero, an up-next list and catch-up replay.
• An on-screen display for playback: a live channel banner, seek feedback and number-pad zapping straight to a channel.
• Motion and polish tuned per device, with a lighter mode on TVs with 2GB of RAM or less: gliding focus ring, card lift on focus, hero backdrop crossfade, and ambient colors pulled from the artwork tinting the background and focus glow.
• Grids and channel lists are virtualized and filtered off the main thread, so a 20,000 channel playlist still scrolls.
• Memory-bounded guide data on low-memory TVs, which is what used to make big EPG feeds crash the renderer.
• Login accepts several pasted Xtream links at once, using the first as primary and the rest as fallback mirrors.

Casting and the receiver

• Native ExoPlayer playback on Android receivers, D-pad navigable, with 15 second steps on the time bar.
• Receivers stay alive in the background through a foreground service, show a media notification with transport controls, and wake the app when a cast arrives while it is backgrounded.
• Senders recover on their own: a failed cast falls back to local playback, a timed-out receiver stops being retried, and paired devices are matched by id so a changed IP address does not lose them.
• Hardened server side: bounded connections, atomic writes to the paired-device store, RTSP live casts, IPv6 handling and an address watcher for mid-session IP changes.

Metadata and enrichment

• Detail pages resolve through one facade, so they work keyless and simply improve when a TMDb key is present.
• TMDb episode groups now line up with providers that split seasons differently, and a provider's own plot is kept when TMDb only has an English fallback.
• Title logos are fetched alongside detail data and reused by the screensaver.
• Multilingual TMDb support (Multilingual support for TMDb #151).

Reliability and security

• One shared timed IndexedDB opener: a blocked database open degrades instead of hanging the page.
• Startup no longer serializes behind slow calls, and Tauri store and IPC waits are all timeout-guarded.
• The EPG, catalog and ambient background workers ignore messages from foreign origins.
• Backup now covers TMDb, display, language, playback, behavior, Discord and receiver settings, plus per-playlist EPG offsets and paired devices.
• Language grouping no longer stays on after being turned off (Grouped still even if disabled #148).

Elsewhere

• Live streams start with subtitles off, and the artplayer subtitle menu has a proper "Off" entry.
• Installed mpv and VLC paths are detected automatically, with a clearer fallback when a launch fails.
• Slim scrollbars everywhere, and dialog buttons sit correctly in right-to-left languages.
• A Discord community link in Settings, the docs and the README, plus a published terms of service.

Thanks

• @esbnetworking filed the Android TV known-issues and usability report ([Android TV] Known issues & usability rework #76), which is the reason this release has a real TV interface instead of a scaled-down desktop one.
• @rowihel2026 asked for plots and metadata in his own language rather than English (discussion Can you add Arabic support for TMDb please? #150, Multilingual support for TMDb #151), which is fixed here: a provider's own description is kept instead of being replaced by an English TMDb fallback.

Keep them coming in Issues and Discussions.

Note

The Google Play TV listing installs the receiver (cast target) build. To get the full TV browse interface described above, sideload the Android APK from the downloads below.

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_1.9.0_x64-setup.exe
Windows on ARM (Snapdragon laptops)	Extreme InfiniTV_1.9.0_arm64-setup.exe
Windows (MSI alternative)	Extreme InfiniTV_1.9.0_x64_en-US.msi
macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel)	Extreme InfiniTV_1.9.0_universal.dmg
Linux Snap (most distros)	Snap Store or sudo snap install extreme-infinitv
Linux Debian / Ubuntu / Mint	Extreme InfiniTV_1.9.0_amd64.deb
Linux ARM64 - Raspberry Pi 4/5 (64-bit OS), Debian / Ubuntu	Extreme InfiniTV_1.9.0_arm64.deb
Linux Fedora / openSUSE / RHEL	Extreme InfiniTV-1.9.0-1.x86_64.rpm
Linux Fedora / openSUSE / RHEL (ARM64)	Extreme InfiniTV-1.9.0-1.aarch64.rpm
Linux portable (any distro)	Extreme InfiniTV_1.9.0_amd64.AppImage
Linux portable (ARM64, any distro)	Extreme InfiniTV_1.9.0_aarch64.AppImage
Android sideload (APK)	Extreme InfiniTV_1.9.0.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.

Changelog v1.9.0

What's Changed

• feat: add a dedicated Android TV browse UI at /tv on ClientRouter by @infinitel8p in feat: add a dedicated Android TV browse UI at /tv on ClientRouter #154
• v1.9.0: Android TV browse UI, TV receiver mode (cast on the LAN), keyless TheTVDB metadata, ambient artwork screensaver, startup and storage hardening by @infinitel8p in v1.9.0: Android TV browse UI, TV receiver mode (cast on the LAN), keyless TheTVDB metadata, ambient artwork screensaver, startup and storage hardening #147

Full Changelog: v1.8.0...v1.9.0

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This discussion was created from the release Extreme InfiniTV v1.9.0.