About
The Stream plugin is most commonly used for these scenarios:
- Display an IPTV channel
- Display live feed from an IP camera
- Display a video file
Depending on what kind of content you want to display, you might also want to check out our Website plugin.
Get Started
Add Stream to a slide
- Open the playlist and the slide where you want Stream
- Click Plugins in the top toolbar
- Search for Stream in the Add Plugin window, and click the Stream tile
- Click Stream on the canvas to select it, and set it up in the settings on the right (see Options below)
- Click Publish
Options
MIME type
Choose between MPEG-URL or dash+xml
Preload Stream
The player starts loading the stream before it is shown so that when the slide is shown, it will play right away. If the content is a video that you want to play from the beginning, you can disable this option.
Muted
Activate to turn sound off
FAQ
Where can I find IPTV channels?
You can find a list of publicly available IPTV channels at iptvcat.com, but there are plenty of sites providing links to channels all around the world.
What does an IPTV URL look like?
It can be hard to find a channel that works with the HLS protocol, but more and more are joining. The format that you should be looking for would look something like this: https://dai.google.com/linear/hls/event/rtcMlf4RTvOEkaudeany5w/master.m3u8. The URL should always end with .m3u8, and in some cases you might have to remove whatever comes after .m3u8.
Please note that when using a paid IPTV channel, we cannot guarantee that the channel will work in our plugin. Many paid IPTV subscription services protect their channels with additional authentication or use a different protocol.
What kind of formats do you support?
We only support HLS. If you have an RTSP/RTMP stream, it first has to be converted to HLS by an encoding server.
Android players support RTSP streams as well.
