# Meroser/IPTV: a customisable live TV playlist with TV logos and EPG > Meroser/IPTV is a personal IPTV playlist project that pairs a 239-channel M3U file with high-definition channel logos and a matched electronic programme guide. It ships no streams, so the playlist is only worth adopting if you already have a source of your own. **Meroser/IPTV** — 深度定制属于自己的直播源列表，[完美EPG节目预告、高清台标] - Repository: https://github.com/Meroser/IPTV - Website: https://github.com/Meroser - Stars: 4,156 · Forks: 584 - Language: Unknown - License: MIT - Published: 2026-09-23 · Updated: 2026-09-23 · Language: en - Canonical page: https://hysenlabs.com/projects/meroser-iptv ## What Meroser/IPTV actually is, and who it is for This is a playlist repository, not a streaming service. The README is explicit: the project does not provide live sources, and the example playlist is for testing and research only and may not be used commercially. That single sentence defines the audience. Meroser/IPTV is for people who already have a lawful source of live channels and want the surrounding presentation work done for them: channel ordering, high-definition logos, and an electronic programme guide whose channel identifiers line up with the playlist entries. The repository layout supports that reading. The top level holds IPTV-demo.m3u, a LICENSE file, README.md, and four directories: Player/, TVlogo/, img/ and tvApp/. There is no server, no scraping pipeline, no build script visible in the entry list. The deliverable is a text file plus the assets that make it look complete in a player. The README's own framing is aimed at a particular kind of user. It describes the viewing experience as high definition, smooth and close to perfect, and calls the project a blessing for people with obsessive-compulsive tendencies. That is the register of a hobbyist maintaining a curated list, not a product team. If you want a maintained catalogue of working public streams, this is the wrong repository. If you want a well-formed M3U with logos and guide data that you populate yourself, it is a reasonable starting point. ## How the playlist, logos and EPG fit together Three artefacts do the work. The first is the playlist itself. The README lists two subscription links, both hosted on GitLab: IPTV-demo.m3u for general players and IPTV-demo.txt for TVBOX. Both are stated to carry 239 channels. The README adds a note under the table that the playlists contain no actual live sources and exist only to demonstrate TV logos and EPG. The second artefact is the logo set. The README credits the logo source to the wanglindl/TVlogo repository, and the repository carries a TVlogo/ directory. In an M3U file, a logo is attached per channel through the tvg-logo attribute, so the value of this project is that the attribute is already populated for the channel list rather than left blank. The third artefact is the EPG. The README points to a separate repository, Meroser/My-EPG, which publishes tvxml files in gzipped form. Two variants are described: a stable version that updates daily at around 00:25, and a detail version that updates at around 00:40 and carries richer entries such as plot summaries, directors, writers and cast. The README notes that almost every channel has a full guide except Migu. The coupling matters more than any single file. An M3U channel entry carries a tvg-id, and the XMLTV guide carries matching channel ids. If the two do not agree, the player shows channel names with an empty guide. The README's claim of deep custom matching of the channel list is a claim about exactly that alignment. The repository does not document how the matching is generated or how to regenerate it after you edit the channel list. ## Installing Meroser/IPTV and loading the demo playlist There is nothing to install in the usual sense. The project is consumed as a URL that a player fetches. The README gives the demo link directly, recommending the GitLab address. Copy it into the player's subscription or playlist field. ```bash https://gitlab.com/Meroser/IPTV/-/raw/main/IPTV-demo.m3u ``` For a TVBOX build, the README gives a second address in plain text form rather than M3U. ```bash https://gitlab.com/Meroser/IPTV/-/raw/main/IPTV-demo.txt ``` The README also lists the matching guide file. The stable variant is the recommended one. ```bash https://gitlab.com/Meroser/My-EPG/-/raw/main/tvxml-Meroser.xml.gz ``` The detail variant lives at a sibling path and carries more per-programme metadata. ```bash https://gitlab.com/Meroser/My-EPG/-/raw/main/tvxml.xml.gz ``` A caveat the README raises itself: TVBOX and DIYP do not consume tvxml. Those two expect an EPG query interface instead, and the README recommends two third-party endpoints for them, epg.erw.cc and epg.112114.xyz, both taking ch and date parameters. So the correct guide address depends on the player, not on preference. After loading, expect 239 channel entries and populated logos; expect the streams behind them to be absent. ## The empty-stream problem, and when this is the wrong tool The README states plainly that the project does not provide live sources. That is not a footnote. It means the demo playlist will populate a channel list, show logos, and pull guide data, while playback fails for every entry because there is no URL behind it. A new user who skips that paragraph will conclude the project is broken. It is not broken; it is a template with the payload removed. The second limitation is maintenance. The last push to the repository was on 2026-03-29, which is several months before the date of this article, and the README's own update log stops at 2024.02.27. The changelog entries mention adding regional channels, removing a failed Shanghai channel, and dealing with a disruption caused by a Shanghai Mobile source. Those are the notes of someone reacting to stream breakage, and the log has not moved in a long time. Treat the channel list as a snapshot rather than a feed. The third issue is the EPG dependency. The guide is not in this repository. It is published from Meroser/My-EPG and mirrored on raw.githubusercontent.com. If that separate repository stops publishing, the playlist still loads but the guide goes empty, and nothing in this repository documents a fallback. The README does name two third-party EPG endpoints, but those are for TVBOX and DIYP, not for players that read tvxml. If you want a playlist that works out of the box with no source of your own, this is the wrong project. If you need a guaranteed channel count or current regional coverage, the stale changelog is a reason to look elsewhere. ## How it compares with YanG-1989/m3u and fanmingming/live The README thanks several sibling projects, and two of them are the obvious alternatives. YanG-1989/m3u and fanmingming/live are both named in the acknowledgements, along with wcb1969/iptv and YueChan/Live. The difference is not quality; it is what each repository treats as its output. Meroser/IPTV treats the presentation layer as the product. The README's selling points are logos and a matched guide, and the channel list is a vehicle for those. The stream addresses are deliberately absent. A repository that ships working stream URLs inverts that: the playlist is the product and the logos are decoration. If a project's README tells you to expect channels that play, its maintenance burden is stream rotation, and its value proposition is freshness. Meroser/IPTV's burden is instead the tvg-id alignment between its M3U and the external tvxml file, which is a different job and breaks in a different way. There is a practical test for choosing between them. Open the M3U and look at the URL field of a channel entry. If it is empty or a placeholder, the repository is a template and you must supply the source. If it points somewhere, the repository is a source list and you must accept whatever freshness it has. The README for Meroser/IPTV tells you which one you are holding before you even open the file. The acknowledgements also show how much of the ecosystem is cross-referential: logos from one project, channels from another, guide data from a third. Picking one repository means accepting its particular slice of that chain. ## Licence, upgrade cost and what the repository does not say The repository is MIT licensed, and the LICENSE file sits at the top level. MIT is permissive: it allows reuse, modification and redistribution provided the copyright notice and permission notice are retained. Two things sit outside that grant and are worth separating from it. The first is the content. The README states the example playlist is for testing and research use and must not be used commercially, and that the project stores no streaming content and that users bear all legal responsibility. Those statements are about the material, not about the code licence, and they are stricter than MIT. The second is the logo set, which the README credits to wanglindl/TVlogo rather than claiming as original. Whether that project's terms travel with the images is not addressed here, and I am not giving legal advice; if you redistribute the logo set, check that source yourself. Upgrade cost is low in the mechanical sense and high in the maintenance sense. Because the deliverable is a URL, there is no package to update and no migration to perform. Your player refetches the playlist whenever it refreshes its subscription. The cost is that any change you want, a channel added, a logo corrected, a tvg-id realigned, has to be made in your own fork, and the README does not document a contribution workflow, a schema for the playlist, or a way to regenerate the EPG matching. The changelog in the README is the only record of what changed and why, and its most recent entry is 2024.02.27. ## Conclusion Adopt Meroser/IPTV if you already have a legal stream source of your own and want a ready-made M3U skeleton with logos and an EPG mapping to fill in. Do not adopt it if you expect to paste a subscription URL into a player and get working channels, because the README states the project provides no live streams and the demo playlist is for logo and EPG display only. Before relying on it, open IPTV-demo.m3u and confirm which channel entries carry a real URL, then decide whether the EPG addresses under gitlab.com/Meroser/My-EPG are reachable from your network. ## FAQ ### Does Meroser/IPTV provide live TV streams? No. The README states that the project does not provide live sources and that the example playlist is for testing and research use only. The demo M3U is described as existing solely to demonstrate TV logos and EPG. ### How do I add the Meroser/IPTV playlist to my player? Copy the demo subscription link given in the README into your player's playlist or subscription field. The README recommends the GitLab address ending in IPTV-demo.m3u, and gives a plain text IPTV-demo.txt variant for TVBOX. ### Which EPG file should I use with Meroser/IPTV? The README recommends the stable tvxml file from Meroser/My-EPG, which it says updates daily at around 00:25, and describes a detail variant at around 00:40 with richer programme metadata. It notes that TVBOX and DIYP do not use tvxml and should point at an EPG query interface instead. ### How can I find a live TV channel m3u8 link? The README does not cover this. It states that the project provides no live sources and directs users to obtain the relevant service through official channels. ## Sources - [Issues](https://github.com/Meroser/IPTV/issues) - [License: MIT](https://github.com/Meroser/IPTV/blob/main/LICENSE) - [Meroser/IPTV on GitHub](https://github.com/Meroser/IPTV) - [Project website](https://github.com/Meroser) - [README](https://github.com/Meroser/IPTV/blob/main/README.md) --- Hysen Labs editorial analysis, written from the project's own repository and release notes. Cite the canonical page: https://hysenlabs.com/projects/meroser-iptv