VideoPlayer MPD/M3U8/IPTV/EPG

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Added the ability make music playlists with

?playlistType=music

parameter in the playlist URL or with the tag

playlistType="music"

in the

#EXTM3U

header of the playlist.
While in a music playlist, when a song finish, it changes to next song, and start over when the last in the playlist finish.

Added shuffle toggle button to player control-bar on music playlists.

Fixed internal shaka error when that could be present when changing channels with subtitles enabled.

Separated the options menu from the settings menu to be able to add more configurable settings to the extension.

Configurable list of domains to ignore from the autoplay of media links added to settings menu.

Added ability to export and import your extension configuration.

Better handling of audio and subtitle labels. Show label, language and language code combination with flag emojis.

Better styling of the quality selector, with tags for resolutions and distinction from extra data.

Added support for emojis on channel names, program titles and program descriptions.

Configurable amount of days of EPG data to load. Default to 1 day. This affect performance with too many channels on low-end devices.

Optimization of channel logos loading. With async and lazy loading that request the logo while scrolling. This prevents huge amount of requests on playlist load with too many channels.

New playlist parameter

?maskUserAgent

. It overwrites the default browser user agent with a custom one from the parameter value or extension name if the value is missing. This is only for the playlist request.

New playlist parameter

?forceFileType=mpd

. When you know the channels from the playlist are from a specific filetype but their file extension is missing in the URL, you can force a type with this parameter to all channels unless they have their own manifest type config.

Added support to load

file:///

media on local playlists. Local playlist are considered playlist from file:/// or local ips or local domains.

Fixed some controls bugs related to playback of direct HTML5 media like MP3, AAC and Ogg Vorbis for audios, and MP4 and WebM for video.

Better detection of compressed EPGs. This fix a bug on the previous version that tried to decompress plain xml from GitHub.

First fullscreen call cancelled.

UI fixes and RTL language fixes like arabic.

Added ability to run the extension in Incognito Mode if is allowed in the Chrome extension settings

Added hotkeys to decrease and increase the playback rate with

SHIFT

+

,

and

SHIFT

+

.

Overhauled UI styling for consistency across the extension and between the IPTV and Direct Player.

Added an explanation of the most common playback errors to the error dialog.

Added current buffer health and playback rate status to the player control bar.

If the stream starts buffering because it has reached the live edge with a playback rate greater than 1x, it's set to 1x. If it's already at 1x, it's set to 0.9x for 5 seconds to prevent future stalls.
(Playback rate is not supported in some HLS/m3u8 streams that automatically adjust the rate)

Added the ability to not autoplay the first channel using the parameter

?noautoplay

or

?autoplay=false

in the playlist URL or with the tag

autoplay="false"

in the

#EXTM3U

header of the playlist.

Added the ability to skip channels from the playlist using a parameter

?ignore

in the playlist URL
or with the tag

ignore

in the

#EXTM3U

header of the playlist. This prevents the list of unwanted channels.
The value is a comma separated string of text or regular expressions.
Playlist URL:

?ignore=%5Ehide_me%24%2Cbroken%2C%5Etest%5Cw

(properly URL encoded parameter value)
Playlist header:

#EXTM3U ignore="^hide_me$,broken,^test\w"

Improved handling of long channel names. They can now span up to two lines (split in half), and a bounce animation on hover is triggered for longer names.

Added a button in the lower-left corner of the IPTV player to open the extension's settings page.

Added a button to enter fullscreen with the channel list, which is useful for hiding the address bar on mobile devices.

Added a hotkey to switch to the last channel with

SHIFT

+

TAB

The EPG program panel now displays more information, such as ratings, categories, and more.

Added aliases for

url-tvg

in the

#EXTM3U

header. The valid aliases are

tvg-url

and

x-tvg-url

Added progress of download, decompression, parsing and error handling while loading EPGs.
Added limit of 128 MB for GZip files and 512 MB to uncompressed EPGs to prevent a huge schedule crashing the tab due to out of memory.

Added a new setting to show EPG programming only while holding down the

X

key. Disabled by default.

Added support for

tvg-shift

tag inside the

#EXTINF

channel line to shift programs.
The value should be a valid float number in hours.

0.5

1

-2

1.5

-2.15

For example, set

tvg-shift="-1.25"

to shift the programs of the channel 1:15 hours earlier.

Updated the "About this video" dialog in the context menu.

Added Arabic translation and updated existing translations. Remember, you can contribute to translations on Crowdin.

Fixed loading of local M3U lists on non-Chrome browsers and mobile phones.

Fixed custom buffer for m3u8 channels.

Fixed handling of programs with short durations that rendered improperly and shifted the schedule.

Fixed some font errors and icons in channels search.

Fixed decompression of some Gzip types.

Fixed timeout handling.

Fixed MediaSession seekbar, channel info and channel logo to not get clipped.

Fixed touch controls on unsupported mobile browsers.

Simplified Chinese translation added.

Italian translation added.

Turkish translation added.

Polish translation added.

Fixed some EPG formats crashes.

Added a welcome page for new installations with instructions on how to use the extension.

Added a new button to the extension settings to open the uninitialized IPTV player.
Added the ability to load local M3U playlists by searching with a file picker.
Added drag and drop support on the uninitialized IPTV player.
You can open one or multiple playlists at the same time, and the lists will be merged.

Added the ability to load absolute path

file:///

m3u lists. The file must end with the

.m3u

extension.
This allows you to drag and drop a playlist onto any Chrome tab to load it.
For this option to work you need to toggle

Allow access to file URLs

in the Chrome extension setting

Added the ability to parse URL encoded strings in

#KODIPROP:inputstream.adaptive.stream_headers=

...stream_headers=referer=https%3A%2F%2Fdomain1.com&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fdomain2.com

Added the ability to also filter by group name while filtering channels.

The EPG now also tries to match the

tvg-name

tag to complement the

tvg-id

tag to find relevant programmes.

Fixed an error during EPG program generation when the M3U file contains invalid channels.

Fixed loading of Gzip EPGs when the server returns an incorrect content type (e.g., from

raw.githubusercontent.com

)

Fixed ignored redirects for M3U lists from domains that use service worker caches (e.g.,

github.io

)

Fixed Chrome blocking some types of redirects to the extension player due to an outdated config path.

Fixed resolution data in the info panel on some m3u8 types of media.

Fixed direct player playback broken in the last release.

Added the ability to filter channels by name or perform a deep scan, including program titles if an EPG is used.

Added support for global buffer time in seconds.

#EXTM3U player-buffer="30"

Added support for per channel buffer time in seconds.

#EXTINF:-1 player-buffer="5"

This setting overwrites the default buffer in the manifest or if missing, the default player buffer.
This helps fix channels that buffer constantly, fail to load, or load too slowly due to a high default buffer.

Added EPG support for the IPTV Player. Channels need to have the correct

tvg-id

to be matched.

Added support for the

#EXTM3U url-tvg="https://.../epg.xml"

header.

Added support for compressed EPGs.

.xml.gz

Added support for multiple EPGs. Use comma-separated URLs in the

url-tvg

header.

#EXTM3U url-tvg="https://.../epg1.xml,https://.../epg2.xml,https://.../epg3.xml.gz"

Added a toggle setting to globally enable or disable the EPG parser in M3U lists.

Added a URL Parameter to disable the EPG parser on a specific M3U list while the global setting is enabled.

?disable-epg

Added a URL Parameter to enable the EPG parser on a specific M3U list while the global setting is disabled.

?enable-epg

Added a URL Parameter to use custom EPGs in a specific M3U list.

?custom-epg={base64 string of comma separated EPG URLs}

Added a

tvg-id

option to the M3U channel block generator in the Clearkey Converter.

Audio Gain and Compressor. Toggle button added next to the volume bar.

Always show bitrate and framerate tags on the quality selector menu.

Moved the direct player from

/player.html

to

/pages/player.html

If you have favorite links to the direct player, you will need to update the URL.

Settings page revamped.

🔑 Added a Clearkey converter and a generator for direct links and M3U blocks in the correct format for the extension.

Added support for

#EXTHTTP

headers.

Added support for

#EXTVLCOPT

headers.

Added support for EME request of clearkeys from URL.

Clearkey and Widevine on HLS streams.

🔑 Fixed various Clearkey formats validations.

Always show bitrate on the video player quality selector.

Added support for custom Widevine certificate URL.

Ability to change channels with Arrow Up

and Arrow Down

.

Added support for EME request of clearkeys from URL.

The parser sometimes failed to read some attribute values correctly due to special characters.

The extension status is now correctly remembered across browser restarts and updates.

Add localization support for the extension.

Added parameter for custom headers.

Added parameter for Widevine Server URL.

Added support for custom Widevine certificate URL.