IPTVnator talks to Stalker and Ministra middleware the way a MAG box does: MAC address identity, handshake and profile, live TV with a program guide, radio, movies and series in all three portal shapes, and an account page with your expiry date.
The full portal experience of a set-top box, with the search, collections and downloads of a desktop app on top.
Handshake, profile and token refresh with the MAC address as identity, the same headers a set-top box sends, and a watchdog that keeps full Ministra portals happy.
Enter a bare host, /c, portal.php or server/load.php. IPTVnator probes the usual endpoints, classifies the portal by how it behaves, and repairs the stored connection if the provider migrates.
Categories, channels with the current program and a progress bar, the complete channel list cached for search, and a dedicated audio layout for radio stations.
The portal schedule is loaded for a week and shown in the list and in the timeline under the player. Archived channels play past programs from the timeline.
Regular series, movies with embedded episodes and Ministra lazily loaded seasons all render as seasons and episodes with resume positions and watched markers.
Status, login, tariff plan, expiry with a days-left counter and portal details, shown instantly from the import snapshot and refreshed from the portal.
Optional serial number, device IDs and signatures are sent only when you enter them. Device IDs can be derived the StbEmu way at import, and stored IDs are protected from accidental changes.
Temporary stream links are requested from the portal for every playback and never persisted, so favorites and history keep working when links expire.
Per-portal collections plus global favorites, recent items and search across all sources. The desktop app downloads movies and episodes for offline viewing.
The Add playlist dialog asks for a title, the portal URL and the MAC address. Everything else is optional and stays empty unless your provider gave you values. When you click Add, IPTVnator probes the portal, authenticates with your MAC address, saves the endpoint and mode that worked, and opens the source.
Providers that migrate their portal do not break the source: on the first failure IPTVnator re-probes once and repairs the stored connection.
A player that speaks the Stalker or Ministra middleware protocol used by MAG set-top boxes. It authenticates with a MAC address instead of a username, fetches channel lists and movie catalogs on demand, and resolves a temporary link for every stream. IPTVnator does all of that on the desktop.
Whatever your provider gave you, as long as it starts with http or https. IPTVnator tries the usual endpoints behind that address and keeps the one that answers, so a bare host, /c, portal.php or server/load.php all work.
No. The MAC address the provider registered is enough for most portals. Serial number, device IDs and signatures are optional and only needed when the provider registered a specific box and told you the values.
Yes. When a portal asks for a login and password on top of the MAC address, IPTVnator reports it, and the optional username and password fields in the Add playlist dialog complete the authentication.
Yes. The portal schedule is loaded for a week and shown in the channel list and the timeline under the player. Channels the portal marks as archived can be played from the timeline.
No. IPTVnator is a player. The portal URL and MAC address come from the provider you already have a contract with, and they are only sent to that portal.
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