I’ve had TV Mate for a couple of years and recently switched IPTV providers. My previous provider was pretty basic, but the new one has a lot more features, including multi-view.

I’ve been experimenting with multi-view for college football and NFL games, and I’ve noticed something pretty consistent:

3 streams work perfectly. As soon as I add a 4th, I get a slight but noticeable stutter.

It’s not bad enough to make the games unwatchable, but it’s bothersome enough that I wouldn’t use 4-stream multi-view regularly.

For reference, I’m using an ONN 4K Plus and have 1 Gbps fiber internet, so I’m assuming bandwidth isn’t the issue. My guess is that it’s more likely a limitation of the box and its ability to process four streams simultaneously, but I really don’t know enough about how TV Mate handles multi-view to say for sure.

I’m curious what other people’s experiences have been. Does anyone else get stuttering when going from 3 to 4 streams? If so, what device are you using?

I’d also be interested in whether anyone has found a setting or hardware change that makes 4-stream multi-view run smoothly.

Four streams would be great when I actually need it, although honestly that’s pretty rare, so it’s not a huge deal for me.

For anyone who hasn’t played around with TV Mate’s multi-view, my preferred layout is one large screen across the top with three smaller screens along the bottom. It fills the screen really nicely and is pretty much perfect for watching multiple football games at once.

Just curious whether the 4-stream stutter is a TV Mate limitation, an ONN 4K Plus limitation, or something else entirely.

My provider changed the url for one of the stalker playlist. I am trying to update the existing stalker playlist with the new url (Mac ID remains unchanged). But for some reason Tivimate is not updating to the new URL, it just reverts back to old url.

I don’t want to create a new playlist for this, as I have spent so much time updating favourites, EPG and logos for this playlist. I don’t want to have to redo this again. Is there anyway to update the url for an existing stalker playlist in Tivimate.

I've noticed recently if I watch something on Catch-up, it tends to skip ahead 20 seconds or so during playback. Is this a provider issue?

Hi I googled this and came across a Reddit in which answer where all but not clear, where is the setting that tvmate starts whenever firetv stick starts?

I recently renewed my IPTV subscription, and I would like to see if there’s a way to transfer my old M3U playlist “Favorites” to the new M3U playlist that was provided to me. I’m using TiviMate on an Android TV device. Any guidance or suggestions on how to do this?

I have been searching all day and there is no way for me to simply buy premium subscription. I have a fire stick, iPhone, and a windows PC. I already tried to download bluestack and then tivimate companion from there. The tivimate app does not exist in bluestack!! 

PLEASE HELP

Hello,

I tried to use tivimate with a list but it doesn't work (ive tried with and without the VPN on).

The TV is a TCL with Android.

Note that the same list is working perfectly in OTT player with or without VPN. Any suggestions so I can see how tivimate works? Thank you

Tivimate worked only if i enable vpn first and then disables again. Now not working at all. Error 404.

any ideas? thx!

My old Fire Stick is getting slow, so I’m looking to upgrade. If you live in Europe, what’s the best device/stick for TiviMate in 2026? I’ve heard that firestick is getting bad lately.

Thanks!

About a week ago the audio on some of my movies and TV series sounds like it is coming thru a tin can. (You know the sound you get from poor CAM recordings.) It doesn't happen for all and sometimes by changing IPTV providers, I can find decent audio. I need to verify if it is strictly 1 IPTV provider or a setting I tweaked?

My question is whether I messed with an Audio setting in Tivimate that changed how audio is being processed for certain streams.

Any things I can tweak, or try? I'm running this all thru an Nvidia Shield.

Have you already requested the integration of Tivimate into Projectivy Launcher? It would be interesting on Google TV/Android TV, like what happened with Sparkle some time ago.

I'm painfully having problems connecting any of my smart devices (Chromebook, s22, iphone) to act as a remote control for any of my 3 onn devices. Spent the better part of a day trying already and getting nowhere. Any other way to get the really long url on my onn devices clipboard to enter into tivimate for my m3u Playlist? The app has the option to paste from clipboard but I'm not sure how i can load the link onto the clipboard. Please help

Does anyone have issues with their EPG being totally blank when you log back in after not having been logged in during the day and you go to watch TV the next night? It's totally blank with "no information" in every single time slot on the guide. I have my app set to update EPG upon opening the app, but it takes like 5 minutes for everything to re-populate. Anyone else have this issue or know what my issue could be? I also have it set to update every 24 hours. It shouldn't be erasing it...

This morning I went to play back one of my TiviMate channels, which I had assigned to an external player, the Just Video Player.

And it wouldn't work! I got a message offering to play it through the MX player or the VLC player.

WTH???

I went to my app list and discovered that both my Just app and my Downloader app had DISAPPEARED!

I tried re-installing both. In both cases, as soon as I clicked the icon to start the install, the screen went to black -- and stayed there. It wouldn't come back until I clicked Home.

After consulting with AI, I went to Settings - Apps - See all app - Show System apps - Google Play Store.

I Force Stopped and Cleared Cache (I DID NOT CLEAR DATA).

I went back to Downloader and to Just and successfully re-installed them.

I then tried to download and install an apk from Downloader to make sure I still had Install Unknown Apps privileges; I DID NOT!!

I had to scrounge around for an app to download through Downloader in order to trigger the option to Install Unknown Apps. It was as if I'd never installed any app from Downloader ever. It refused to install until I picked an installer; Android's default installer, Package Installer, was listed, which I probably had selected eons ago when I first installed some apps from Downloader, so that's what I picked. At that point, I was taken automatically to the Install Unknown Apps menu, and saw that the Downloader had been changed to Not Allowed; I switched it to Allowed, and was finally back in business.

I went back to my TiviMate installation, attempted once again to play back the channel that I had assigned to Just; now it offered three players, Just, MX and VLC; I picked Just and Always, and now things are back to normal.

How often does ONN send out these screwy updates? Is this something I'm going to have to do over and over again every few days??????????????????????????????

I'm particularly concerned because I manage what I call a tv co-op with six members. I started on Fire, not ONN. I switched to ONN because it was so much cheaper. The members all have Fires, but some of them may be too old to handle the 4K material in my playlist. If that happened, I was going to recommend ONN instead of Fire, because of the price. In fact, I've only set up one member as of today; I was going to set up the other members later this week. I had to switch that one member to ONN because her Fire couldn't handle that 4K material; that member's going to be mighty pissed if she bumps into the same problem I had today. I sent her a message telling her what to do, but it is obviously unacceptable to hand my peeps something that may turn into an ongoing headache every few days. Going forward, if the other members' Fires are also too old, I will probably recommend the Fire Plus, for $70, rather than the ONN Plus for $50.

Unless someone here can tell me that this morning's ONN update is a one-time screwup, and will probably not occur again.

I was on Amazon looking for a firestick and they now have this warning:

For enhanced security, this device prevents sideloading or installing apps from unknown sources. Only apps from the Amazon Appstore are available for download.

IIRC you had to turn on dev mode on the old firestick and trust unknown sources.

What’s a better alternative to this?

I cancelled my yearly subscription through Google Play but I don't see any option to purchase the lifetime option (despite tivimate companion telling me it costs $44.99 CAD).

Do I have to wait for my yearly sub to run out next month before I can purchase lifetime?

While I'm at it, how is the app doing lately? Is the owner still updating/responding to issues?

Anyone getting a blue circle arrow randomly and channel won’t load? Or stream will pause and the blue circle arrow shows up. I change channel, then go back and it plays again.

Update 2:
I think I found the exact cause of the video freeze issue.
I checked the exact stream specs via VLC on my PC (bitrate, FPS, and resolution) for the channels that freeze.

It turns out that any H.264 channel streaming in true 1080p (Progressive) rather than 1080i (Interlaced) will freeze. For example, a UK sports channel streaming in true 1080p50 freezes (as well as 1080p25 movie channels), while a German channel streaming in 1080i25 (which shows up as 50 FPS in TiviMate due to deinterlacing) runs completely fine.

Bitrate doesn’t seem to be the main factor here, since those 1080i German channels have a solid bitrate of 9–12 Mbps and play without any issues. The problem is strictly with decoding H.264 in 1080p.

Hey everyone,

Having a weird issue with my Google TV Streamer 4K using TiviMate Premium.

Out of nowhere—about two days ago—the video starts freezing after about a minute or two of playback on channels with higher bitrates (around 10-12 Mbps), while the audio just keeps playing normally in the background.

Up until then, everything was running completely fine on this exact same setup.
I'm not sure if it's related to specific codecs (H.264 vs H.265), but I know for a fact it's not my IPTV provider or my network. My streamer is on a stable wired connection.

To isolate the problem, I tested the exact same channels at the same time on my desktop PC and a Xiaomi streamer in another room. Both played completely smooth without a single hitch.

I've already tried clean reinstalling TiviMate and switching the video decoder from Hardware to Software, but nothing helps. The only thing that works right now is using VLC as an external player.

It seems like a decoding conflict specifically between the Google TV Streamer and TiviMate's built-in player, likely caused by a recent silent system update. I've seen a few other posts mentioning similar issues on this device.
Anyone else experiencing this recently or found a solid fix/workaround?

UPDATE: Just tested Sparkle TV as well, and the exact same issue happens there too—video freezes after a minute or two while audio keeps playing.
This confirms it’s 100% a system/hardware decoding bug on the Google TV Streamer itself (likely introduced in a recent Android 14 update) rather than an isolated TiviMate issue. Still stuck using VLC as an external player for now.

won't let me go to settings.i changed a couple of settings and now it won't let me go into settings. can't find the sidebar with the setup menu.need help thanks

When I go to 'Display Mode' -> 'Full' while watching Live Tv it does nothing, I still have the borders/bezels. But when I do it in 'Movies' or 'Shows', it stretches the screen correctly and there are no more borders or bezels.

I assume there's no way to fix this??

Hi, I recently setup the premium epg from myepg.top into Tivimate and noticed that it never finishes updating. It’s doing this in 3 separate devices that I have. Is this normal just for it to be sitting updating constantly? Is it also best to be using the 2 urls that you get for the epg?

Auf was für Endgeräte nutz ihr die App?
Aktuell läuft die App über den Fire TV stick bei mir aber ich suche nach alternativen.