Box Seats: IPTV Player

Cloud Telecoms (PTY) Ltd

About this app

Box Seats turns the IPTV subscription you already have into a proper living-room experience. Sign in with your provider, and your live channels, movies and series arrive as fast, remote-friendly screens built for the biggest display in the house — and for the phone in your pocket when you are away from it.

Box Seats is a player only. It does not include, host, sell or provide any channels, streams or media, and it comes with no content of its own. You need your own IPTV subscription or playlist to use it.

BUILT FOR THE TELEVISION, AT HOME ON A PHONE
• Android TV and Google TV first: D-pad navigation, a launcher banner, and layouts sized for the sofa
• The same app on phones and tablets, with touch, mouse and keyboard support
• Stays fast on very large playlists, not just demo-sized ones
• Type a channel number on the remote to jump straight to it
• TV-friendly search and text entry

PLAYLISTS AND PROVIDERS
• Xtream Codes, Stalker Portal, and M3U playlists from a URL or a local file
• Separate sync for live channels, movies, series and guide data
• Several providers side by side, each with its own settings
• Combined M3U profiles that merge multiple sources into one lineup

LIVE TV
• Favourites, recently watched, and custom channel groups
• Pin, hide, lock or group any category from the channel list
• Reorder channels inside favourites and custom groups
• Channel numbering per group or across the whole lineup
• Preview a channel while you keep browsing

GUIDE AND CATCH-UP
• Full EPG grid with search inside the guide
• XMLTV support with built-in EPG source management
• Manual EPG matching and source-priority controls
• Provider catch-up and archive playback where your source offers it
• Live rewind with up to 30 minutes of buffer, even without provider catch-up

RECORDING
• Scheduled and background recording for live channels
• Reminders straight from a guide entry
• Conflict detection and repair for recording jobs
• Record to the app's own folder or to storage you choose
• Play finished recordings in the app

MOVIES AND SERIES
• Modern shelves or classic sidebar categories
• Info pages, continue watching, and resume where you stopped
• Search the whole library from the top of any screen
• Switch episodes inside the player, with automatic next episode

PLAYBACK
• Subtitles, audio tracks, aspect ratio, speed and quality controls
• Multi-view split screen for several live streams at once
• Google Cast support
• Bundled FFmpeg audio fallback for AC-3, E-AC-3, DTS, MP2 and TrueHD
• Expert controls for decoder mode, media session behaviour and timeouts when a stream needs tuning

PARENTAL CONTROLS
• Hide categories completely, or lock them behind a PIN
• Keep locked content out of browsing entirely
• Adult-category detection from provider flags and category naming

ANDROID TV INTEGRATION
• Watch Next and launcher recommendations
• TV Input Framework channel sync, so your channels appear in the system Live TV app

PRIVACY
• No account with us, and no sign-up: your provider details stay on your device
• No advertising, and no tracking of what you watch

LANGUAGES
English plus 25 translated locales.

Box Seats is built for TV first. Phones and tablets are fully supported, but the living room is the target.

What’s new

New in 3.2.18

• Providers can be added and switched again. Settings > Providers has an "Add
Provider" button, and the empty home screen offers one too.
• To switch: Settings > Providers, pick the provider, press Connect. The
catalogue re-syncs if it is more than a day old.
• Live TV playback fixes carried forward from the 3.2 series.