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High-performance XC / XCUI playback for Kodi
Live TV • VOD • Catch-up • TV Series
Optimized for Kodi v21 (Omega) & Python 3.13
Official Kodi Repository for this addon: 👉 Nigel1992/kodi-repository
Quick links: Latest release · Installation · Troubleshooting · Issues
Built for fast, reliable XC/XCUI playback on Kodi 21 (Omega) with modern parsing, caching, and clean navigation.
- ⚡ Performance-first browsing for Live, VOD, Series, Catch-up
- 🛰️ Resilient XML/JSON parsing tuned for XC/XCUI panels
- 🧭 Simple router-style navigation with restored series flows
- 🛠️ Built-in speed test and advanced settings presets
- 🧠 Defensive handling of inconsistent provider payloads
- 🎯 Optimized for Kodi v21 (Omega) / Python 3.13
- Fast Live/VOD navigation with persistent file-based caching
- Configurable cache expiry per content type (Live TV, Movies, Series) in Settings → Cache
- TV Series with seasons/episodes restored
- Catch-up TV (provider-dependent)
- Speed test and advanced settings helpers
- Robust handling of inconsistent provider APIs
- Icon-host reachability checks — dead icon servers never stall the UI
- Custom EPG / TV Guide — full in-addon EPG window with two-panel layout (channels + programme schedule), category browsing, search for categories and channels, progress bars on currently airing shows, and info panel
- EPG remembers last category — reopening the TV Guide auto-loads the previously viewed category
- Programme click plays channel — selecting any programme in the schedule plays that channel directly
- Live programme info in player overlay — pressing Info (i) during playback shows the current programme title, description, and channel name
- Auto-updating EPG info — background thread refreshes programme metadata every 60 seconds during playback so the info overlay always shows the current show
- Favorites — long-press any channel, movie, or series to add/remove from Favorites; new Favorites menu on home screen for instant access to your most-watched content
- Recently Watched History — automatically logs the last 25 streams played (configurable); accessible from the home screen with timestamps; clear from Extras
- Multi-Server Profiles — save, switch between, and delete multiple IPTV server credentials from Settings → Switch Server; cache is auto-cleared on switch
- Last Played — the last played stream appears at the top of home as a quick-resume item
- Install from the latest zip: https://github.com/Nigel1992/plugin.video.iptvxc/releases/latest
- Open Kodi → Add-ons → Install from zip → select
plugin.video.iptvxc-<version>.zip - Enter provider credentials in Settings → Accounts
- Browse Live / VOD / Series / Catch-up
- Kodi 21 (Omega) or newer
- XC/XCUI-compatible account (host, username, password)
- Network access to your provider’s panel
- Live TV → Categories → Channels → Play
- VOD → Categories → Titles → Play
- Series → Show → Season → Episode → Play
- Catch-up → Channel → Program → Play (if provider supports)
- Tools → Speed Test / Advanced settings presets
| Component | Requirement |
|---|---|
| Kodi | v21 (Omega) or newer |
| Python | 3.13 (bundled with Kodi v21) |
| Account | Active XC / XCUI-compatible provider |
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Download the latest release
👉 https://github.com/Nigel1992/plugin.video.iptvxc/releases -
Or install from the official Kodi repository
👉 Nigel1992/kodi-repository -
Install in Kodi
Settings→Add-ons→Install from zip file- Select
plugin.video.iptvxc-<version>.zip
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Configure
- Open the add-on
- Enter your provider credentials in Settings
- Open XCUI Streams from Video add-ons
- Browse:
- Live TV
- VOD
- TV Series
- Catch-up TV
- TV Series flow
Series → Season → Episode
- Fixed freeze/slowdown when pressing X to stop a stream
- Fixed intermittent loading overlay (busy dialog) getting stuck on stream start/stop
- Fixed Kodi becoming unresponsive on Stop
- Fixed UI freeze caused by unreachable channel icon servers (30s curl stall)
- Added persistent file-based caching for Live TV, Movies/VOD, Series, Catch-up
- Added user-configurable cache expiry in Settings → Cache (5 minutes → 7 days)
- Added Clear content cache button in Settings → Cache
- Persistent icon-host reachability cache (survives between plugin invocations)
- Playback now automatically retries up to 5 times if the connection drops during playback or seeking (improves reliability for unstable streams)
For a complete list of changes and release history, see CHANGELOG.md.
- Custom EPG / TV Guide — full in-addon EPG window with two-panel layout (channels + programme schedule), category browsing, search for categories and channels, progress bars on currently airing shows, and info panel
- EPG remembers last category — reopening the TV Guide auto-loads the previously viewed category
- Programme click plays channel — selecting any programme in the schedule plays that channel directly
- Live programme info in player overlay — pressing Info (i) during playback shows the current programme title, description, and channel name
- Auto-updating EPG info — background thread refreshes programme metadata every 60 seconds during playback so the info overlay always shows the current show
- Favorites — long-press any channel, movie, or series to add/remove from Favorites; new Favorites menu on home screen for instant access to your most-watched content
- Recently Watched History — automatically logs the last 25 streams played (configurable); accessible from the home screen with timestamps; clear from Extras
- Multi-Server Profiles — save, switch between, and delete multiple IPTV server credentials from Settings → Switch Server; cache is auto-cleared on switch
- Last Played — the last played stream appears at the top of home as a quick-resume item
- Persistent file-based caching for Live TV, Movies/VOD, Series, Catch-up
- User-configurable cache expiry in Settings → Cache (5 minutes → 7 days)
- Clear content cache button in Settings → Cache
- Speed test and advanced settings helpers
- Robust handling of inconsistent provider APIs
- Icon-host reachability checks — dead icon servers never stall the UI
- No pvr.iptvsimple dependency — EPG is fully self-contained within the addon
For full details, see CHANGELOG.md.
- No content visible?
- Verify provider credentials
- Check network connectivity
- Missing metadata
- Normal for some providers
- Deprecation warnings
ListItem.setInfo()warnings do not affect playback- Migration to
InfoTagVideois planned
- Provider differences
- Not all providers share the same API/URL structure; features can work on one host and fail on another
- Open an issue with your host name/URL and API paths if something breaks so we can add support
Issues and PRs are welcome.
Please avoid sharing provider credentials publicly.
Include Kodi version, platform, and logs when reporting bugs.
- Original work by Fire TV Guru
- Community contributions and testing
