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Nightmare TV

Native IPTV / live TV player for Windows + Android TV, built on libmpv 2026. 4K HEVC/AV1, HDR (BT.2390) tone-mapping, Dolby Atmos passthrough, M3U editor, multiview. Microsoft Store + Android TV sideload (Fire TV, Onn 4K, Shield, Mi Box). 7-day free trial.

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Cost / License

  • Pay once or Subscription
  • Proprietary

Application type

Platforms

  • Windows
  • Android TV  Sideload via Downloader app or USB stick (no Play Store yet — closed test recruiting). Auto-detected remote profiles for Onn 4K Pro (channel-up/down fix), Shield, Fire TV, Mi Box, Chromecast with Google TV. v1.6.0+.
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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  No registration required
  2.  No Tracking
  3.  Ad-free
  4.  Hardware Accelerated
  5.  Lossless Audio
  6.  Dark Mode
  7.  Support for 4K
  8.  Watch Live TV
  9.  Support for IPTV

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Nightmare TV information

  • Developed by

    Tevfik Çapar
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Commercial product.
  • Pricing

    One time purchase that costs $79, and / or subscription ranging between $3 and $6 per month.
  • Alternatives

    32 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English
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What is Nightmare TV?

Live on the Microsoft Store since May 14, 2026: https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/9PLPLGHTVB5G — one-click install with auto-updates. Product ID: 9PLPLGHTVB5G.

Nightmare TV is a premium IPTV / live-TV player built around libmpv 2026 — the same playback engine used by mpv. Where ExoPlayer- and ijkplayer-based competitors stutter on 4K HEVC/AV1 with DTS audio, Nightmare delivers studio-grade decoding plus real HDR tone-mapping (BT.2390, per-frame peak detect, gamut desaturate) on Windows (native Android TV ships in v1.6).

Key differentiators vs TiviMate, IPTV Smarters Pro and OttPlayer:

  • libmpv 2026 core: HEVC Main10, AV1, VP9, VC-1, DTS-HD, EAC3, Dolby Atmos passthrough, PGS subtitles native.
  • Real HDR tone-mapping: bt.2390, hdr-compute-peak, gamut-mapping desaturate. Most IPTV players ship plain SDR clip; Nightmare ships proper EBU-grade HDR rendering.
  • Smooth live playback: video-sync display-resample, framedrop=vo, interpolation + tscale oversample tuned for 50Hz Turkish sport feeds on 60Hz monitors.
  • Glass-clear playback pipeline (v1.5.4): hr-seek-framedrop=no for frame-perfect VOD seek, hwdec=auto-copy eliminates HEVC B-frame macroblock distortion, vd-lavc-threads=8 for fast scene cuts, gpu-shader-cache-dir for 200-400ms faster channel switches.
  • Image quality: deinterlace=auto with bwdif, cscale spline16, sigmoid-upscaling, scale-antiring 0.7, dither error-diffusion + temporal-dither, correct-downscaling + linear-downscaling.
  • AMD FidelityFX CAS sharpening: edge-aware, halo-free. Slider in Image panel.
  • M3U Editor (non-destructive): hide/rename/regroup channels without modifying the source playlist.
  • Standalone M3U Hub (v1.5.4): connect with just an M3U URL, no Xtream account required.
  • Channel Preset: per-channel audio language, subtitle, aspect ratio, brightness, vision mode, volume boost.
  • Try Demo on login: 5 free-to-air streams (Red Bull TV, NASA TV, NASA ISS, DW English, France 24 English) load with a single click.
  • Tamper-proof 14-day trial: hardware-bound device hash on Cloudflare Workers KV. Blocks APPDATA delete, reinstall, clock rewind, manual JSON edit.

Pricing: Gumroad (Merchant of Record). One-time license, 14-day automatic trial, 2-device limit per license. Privacy: KVKK, GDPR, CCPA covered. Opt-in crash reporting only.

Stack: Flutter desktop + libmpv + GLSL shaders.

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