Software · Media players & centers

Broadcaster

Remote-friendly GTK4/mpv app for Linux: German public-service live TV, Mediathek catch-up and M3U/IPTV playlists, with optional XMLTV Now/Next and favourites.

Completely free
Linux
Open source
No account

Overview

Features described in its GitHub repository: playlists.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“Remote-friendly GTK4/mpv app for Linux: German public-service live TV, Mediathek catch-up and M3U/IPTV playlists, with optional XMLTV Now/Next and favourites.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Broadcaster is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

Open source code
No account needed
Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) — 9 November 2026
Last technical check: 9 November 2026
Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub Certain1989/Broadcaster (GPL-3.0-only)

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