IPTV player for M3U & Xtream: live TV, EPG guide, recording & sync
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Aerial TV: IPTV Player & EPG for M3U and Xtream
By Trang Nguyen
Editor, media and streaming
- Plex, Emby and Jellyfin libraries alongside IPTV playlists
- M3U, Xtream Codes and Aerialink playlist support
- Live TV guide with XMLTV, catch-up and channel preview
- Recording live TV with series rules and repeat schedules
- Profiles and watch progress synced across screens by QR code
- Offline downloads with a queue and a backup of favorites
What Aerial TV does and who it suits
Aerial TV is a media player for Android that gathers several kinds of content into one place. It plays live channels from M3U and Xtream Codes playlists, and it opens movies and series stored on Plex, Emby or Jellyfin servers and on network shares. The app supplies no content of its own. The listing says you must provide your own source.
That makes it most relevant to people who already run a media server, keep files on a NAS, or subscribe to an IPTV service, and who want one player for all of it. A subscription to Aerial TV is required to use its premium features, so anyone planning to rely on those should account for that cost.
Connecting media servers and network storage
The listing names Plex, Emby and Jellyfin as supported media servers. Libraries from those servers appear in the app alongside playlists, so one list covers both.
For files kept on a shared drive, the app streams over SMB, WebDAV and FTP. You add each source once on your phone, and the listing says the other devices you pair pick it up automatically.
Playlists, the TV guide and catch-up viewing
Live channels come in through M3U files, Xtream Codes API logins, or Aerialink. The listing presents full support for all three.
The electronic programme guide shows real-time schedules and supports catch-up TV, so you can go back to a broadcast that has already aired. It reads XMLTV guide data, and the guide is interactive. A channel preview with a mini-player lets you check what is on before you switch to it.
Recording live TV and controlling playback
Recording covers single programmes and whole series. Smart series recording and repeat schedules handle shows that air on a pattern. Recordings can be saved to the device's own storage, to a folder you choose, or to an SMB or NAS share.
While a live broadcast is on, you can pause it, rewind it, and replay it. The listing says recording rules are included in the backup and restore function, along with favorites and continue-watching positions.
Movies and series: tracking, skipping and subtitles
Skip Intro and Recap works on limited series, and Auto Play Next moves to the following episode with a countdown you can customize. Season and episode tracking keeps your place across a show.
Metadata for titles comes from TVDB and includes ratings, cast, crew and awards. You can browse by genre, year and rating. Trakt integration scrobbles what you watch and syncs the history. External subtitles come from OpenSubtitles.
Syncing profiles across Android TV and other screens
On Android TV, you pair the device by scanning a QR code. The listing says playlists, favorites and settings then sync automatically, and watch progress syncs in real time so you can pick up where you left off on another screen.
The app allows up to five profiles. Each profile keeps its own history and favorites, which lets several people share one installation without mixing their lists.
Offline downloads, playback engines and parental controls
Titles can be downloaded for trips and commutes. A download queue and storage management tools control how much space the downloads take up. The listing describes backup and restore for favorites, continue watching and recording rules.
Playback runs on ExoPlayer or VLC, and you can hand a stream to an external player. Picture-in-Picture and Google Cast are included. Parental controls are protected by a password, and the app lists TalkBack accessibility support.
What's new
• Smoother autoplay of the next episode
• Improved Continue Watching, synced across your devices
• Faster, refreshed home screen
• More stable playback and TV navigation fixes
• Now available in more languages
About this APK
The build we hold is Aerial TV: IPTV Player & EPG 1.0.70 (APKS split bundle) for Android 7.1 and up.
- Version
- 1.0.70
- 82
- Requires Android
- 7.1+
- Size
- 43 MB
- Target Android
- 16
- Package ID
- com.jet27labs.aerialtv
- Format
- APKS split bundle
- Devices
- Supports Android TV
- Malware scan
- Google Play Protect
- Permissions
- 19 declared · 1 sensitive
- Camera
- Signed by
- CN=Android, O=Google Inc.
- Certificate SHA-256
- 0b662e359267d8f0808cf5b1ebe91f662ecd36e66d560e93bd76d8cc1a6011d6
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