TV-DB

A fast, beautiful IPTV player for Android TV & Google TV.

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📺 On a TV box — Downloader code

8405579

Open the Downloader app, type 8405579, then install. Always grabs the newest version.

Install on your box

1. On your Android TV box, allow Install unknown apps for your file manager / Downloader.

2. Get the APK onto the box (Downloader app with this page's link, USB, or "Send Files to TV").

3. Open the APK and install, then launch TV-DB. After this, it auto-updates itself.

TV-DB vs TiViMate

Feature

TV-DB

TiViMate

Cost

Free — no subscription

Free + paid Premium

Multiple playlists

✓ Free

Premium

Recording (DVR)

✓ Free

Premium

Scheduled recordings

✓ Free

Premium

Multi-view

✓ Free

Premium

EPG guide & catch-up

✓

Live pause & rewind

✓

Updates

✓ auto, self-hosted

Play Store

Comparison reflects TiViMate’s published free vs Premium tiers. TiViMate is a polished, well-established player — TV-DB is the free, original, self-hosted alternative, built from scratch.

Under the hood

~4 MB

Tiny download

Around 4 MB — down from ~22 MB earlier in the project. Installs in seconds, even over a slow box connection.

First-launch fast

Compiled ahead of time

The hot startup and scrolling code is precompiled to native (baseline profiles), so it opens quickly and scrolls smoothly from the very first launch — even on low-power boxes.

~1s faster zap

Snappier channel changes

Live buffering is tuned so a channel starts playing about a second sooner when you flip.

Self-healing

Never-give-up playback

Layered watchdogs catch stalls, frozen frames and dropped feeds and reconnect with a fresh stream automatically — a channel left on recovers itself.

Lighter

Easy on memory

Half-weight poster decoding plus catalogs released under memory pressure keep long sessions stable on low-RAM boxes.

7k + & 11k +

Smooth big lists

Draw-phase focus animation and leaner lists keep huge channel and movie grids fluid to scroll.

Read the full engineering breakdown — 142 details for the nerds →

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