• MPV-powered, GPU-accelerated playback
• List view + full EPG guide (grid on iPad/tvOS, list on iPhone)
• Program titles, descriptions, and time slots
• Channel info banner identifies the channel + program when a stream starts
• Sort channels by number, name, or favorites
• Tap to play, long-press for favorites
• Long-press an upcoming program to set a reminder or schedule a recording
• EPG reminders fire 5 minutes before the program starts; sync via iCloud
• EPG window configurable from 6 hours up to the full available window
• Channels without guide data still selectable from the grid

• Watch up to 9 live channels at once in a dynamically-sized grid
• Enter from any playing channel: tap the grid button (iPad) or Options → Enter Multiview (tvOS)
• Layouts adapt to tile count: 1, 2, 3 asymmetric, 2×2, 5 asymmetric, 3×2, 7 centered, 3×3 with center gap, full 3×3
• Only the most recently added stream plays audio; tap any tile (iPad) or Select (Siri Remote) to move audio focus
• Long-press menu on every tile: Make Audio / Full-Screen in Grid / Audio Track / Subtitle Track / Move Tile / Remove
• Move Mode for rearranging tiles (long-press → "Move Tile")
• Picture-in-Picture from multiview on iPad — only the audio tile continues; other tiles pause to conserve resources
• Performance warning at the 5th tile (2-hour throttle); hard cap at 9 tiles; thermal watchdog stops new tiles at .critical device temp

• Schedule live or upcoming programs from the Live TV guide
• Dispatcharr server-side recording — continues even when AerioTV is closed (the server runs the recording); ideal for unattended recordings
• Local recording on this device — records to Documents/Recordings (or a user-chosen folder on iOS). Available for Dispatcharr, Xtream Codes, and M3U
• Per-recording pre-roll (start early) and post-roll (end late) buffers: None / 5 / 10 / 15 / 30 / 60 min or custom
• Remove Commercials (Comskip) — server-side processing on Dispatcharr; toggle at schedule time or run post-recording
• DVR tab appears automatically when there's at least one recording, with Scheduled / Recording / Completed segments
• Auto-discovery of recordings scheduled outside the app (Dispatcharr web UI) — they show up in AerioTV within ~2 min
• Download completed server recordings to local storage
• Local storage quota with live usage bar (1–200 GB, default 10 GB) and low-storage warnings
• iOS Files app access ("On My iPhone → AerioTV")
• Keep-device-awake toggle so a local recording isn't interrupted by display sleep

• Browse and filter on-demand content by category
• TMDB-rich metadata on Dispatcharr (backdrop, plot, cast, director, year, rating, runtime; per-episode air dates, ratings, IMDB IDs, and per-episode artwork)
• Provider-supplied metadata on Xtream Codes (poster, title, one-line plot)
• Continue Watching — resume movies and episodes; progress syncs across devices via iCloud
• Long-press to remove items from Continue Watching
• Per-playlist VOD toggle in Settings → Edit Playlist
• Series and movie detail caches make second-opens instant

• Tap to summon chrome; auto-fade after 5s of inactivity
• Single overflow menu (iOS) / Options panel (tvOS) for all secondary controls
• Audio track + subtitle track selection
• Playback speed (0.5×, 0.75×, 1×, 1.25×, 1.5×, 2×) for VOD — not available on live streams
• Sleep Timer (30 / 60 / 90 / 120 min), with a countdown in the overflow menu
• Audio Only mode
• AirPlay
• Picture-in-Picture on iOS — swipe home during playback and the stream continues in a floating window
• Stream Info overlay — codec, resolution, FPS, pixel format, hardware decode status, audio codec + sample rate + channel count, cache duration, bitrate, A/V sync, and dropped-frame count. Sourced from mpv on every server type (Dispatcharr, Xtream Codes, M3U) so you see what the device is actually decoding, not what the upstream server reports
• Channel-flip gestures — Up/Down on the Siri Remote (Apple TV) or swipe up/down with chrome visible (iPhone / iPad) to flip channels in single-stream playback

• Server configurations, preferences, VOD watch progress, EPG reminders, and per-playlist sort order sync across all your Apple devices
• Uses iCloud Key-Value Storage
• Granular per-category sync controls in Settings (v1.6.17+) — opt out of any category individually
• Per-category "Delete from iCloud" actions for scrubbing stale state without affecting local data
• Set up once on one device and your other devices pick up the same data on launch

• Full Siri Remote support with d-pad navigation
• Options panel for audio, subtitles, speed, sleep timer, and stream info
• Up/down on the Siri Remote changes channels during single-stream live playback
• Press Menu to minimize live TV to a floating corner player; press Menu again to stop
• Channels and logos sized for living-room viewing
• LAN detection probes local server URLs automatically — no SSID configuration needed
• Top Shelf — your 6 most-watched channels (with the current program), plus a Continue Watching row of movie and episode posters. Populates as soon as AerioTV is on the top row of the Apple TV Home screen — no setup

• Mini-player (iPhone bottom bar / iPad top-right corner) keeps the stream alive while you browse the guide, settings, or on-demand library
• Pinch-to-zoom-out shrinks the iPad player to the corner mini (v1.6.13+)
• Swipe down to dismiss / minimize the player on iPhone
• iPhone multiview respects the notch and Dynamic Island — tiles render inside the safe area, black background fills the corners around the cutout (v1.6.17+)
• iPad / Mac Catalyst use the iPad app as-is; macOS gets the full iPad experience including multiview

Dispatcharr is a self-hosted IPTV middleware that gives users control over their IPTV services. See the linked GitHub.

Benefits Dispatcharr is uniquely good at

• Server-side DVR — schedule recordings that continue running even when AerioTV is closed or the device is asleep. (Local recording to the device works on every server type, but Dispatcharr is the only one where the server itself can run the recording.)
• Comskip (commercial-skip) — toggle when scheduling a server-side recording or run it post-recording from the DVR tab. Comskip runs on the Dispatcharr server, so it's only available for server-side recordings.
• Server-side recording playback — stream completed server recordings directly with HTTP Range support, no auth headers needed.
• Server-side stream failover via channel UUID — when a primary stream dies mid-playback, Dispatcharr swaps to a backup provider transparently. The player doesn't even hiccup. (Xtream Codes has client-side URL fallback — AerioTV tries .m3u8 then .ts — but the server can't swap to a different provider on its own.)
• TMDB-enriched VOD metadata — backdrops, plots, cast, director, year, rating, runtime, plus per-episode air dates, TMDB ratings, IMDB IDs, and per-episode artwork. Pulled in by Dispatcharr's TMDB scraper. (Xtream Codes also has VOD, but its metadata is whatever the provider supplies — usually poster + title + one-line plot, not TMDB-grade.)
• Bulk EPG fetch — one network call returns -1h to +24h for every channel via /api/epg/grid/. Xtream Codes uses per-stream EPG calls; M3U pulls XMLTV from a separate URL.
• Per-server custom User-Agent override — set in Settings → Edit Playlist. Sent on every Dispatcharr API request and to mpv on playback so the value shows up in Dispatcharr's admin Stats panel. Not currently exposed for XC or M3U.
• External XMLTV URL override (advanced) — point the EPG at a third-party XMLTV source while keeping channels from Dispatcharr's API. (M3U has its own EPG URL field — it's the primary EPG source there, not an override.)
• Auto-discovery of recordings scheduled outside the app — recordings you scheduled from the Dispatcharr web UI appear in AerioTV's DVR tab within ~2 minutes. XC / M3U don't have a server-side scheduler to discover from.

The Xtream Codes API is what most IPTV providers natively expose. You log in with the username / password your provider gave you and AerioTV pulls live TV, movies, and series.

Benefits

• No self-hosting. Most IPTV providers expose an Xtream Codes endpoint by default — paste the URL, type your credentials, done.
• Live TV + VOD library. Movies and series come from the same login as live channels — no separate EPG / VOD URLs to manage.
• Per-playlist VOD toggle. Settings → Edit Playlist exposes the same "Fetch VOD from this playlist" switch Dispatcharr does, so you can keep a sandbox / secondary playlist's Live TV without loading its VOD library every launch.
• Local DVR with pre-roll / post-roll. Recordings on this device, with the same buffer pickers (None / 5 / 10 / 15 / 30 / 60 min or custom) Dispatcharr server-side recordings get. Recordings continue while the app stays running.
• EPG via TVG ID matching — most provider EPGs key to Xtream's tvg_id field automatically.
• Client-side stream URL fallback — Aerio tries .m3u8 first, then .ts, so a transient HLS hiccup doesn't kill playback outright.
• Familiar auth model — single username and password.

Drawbacks

• VOD metadata is provider-supplied, not TMDB-enriched. You typically get the poster, title, and one-line plot. Per-episode air dates, TMDB ratings, and per-episode artwork are not available.
• No server-side DVR. Recordings are local-only — must keep AerioTV running for the recording duration. No comskip (Dispatcharr-only).
• EPG depth varies by provider — some give you a few days, some give you a few hours.

A plain M3U playlist is just a list of stream URLs in a text file. Works with literally any IPTV provider that gives you a playlist URL — including providers that don't support the Xtream Codes API.

Benefits

• Universal compatibility. If a provider hands you any URL ending in .m3u / .m3u8, AerioTV can play it.
• Fastest setup. Paste the URL → done. No credentials, no server, no scrape time.
• No self-hosting.
• Local DVR with pre-roll / post-roll. Recordings on this device, with the same buffer pickers Xtream and Dispatcharr recordings get. Recordings continue while the app stays running.
• Optional separate XMLTV URL for EPG. Bring your own EPG source if your provider doesn't include one.
• Compressed .xml.gz EPG — coming in a future release.

Drawbacks

• No VOD library. M3U is live TV only — no movies or series. If your provider has VOD, you'll need their Xtream Codes endpoint (or a Dispatcharr instance pointed at them) to access it.
• No server-side DVR. Recordings are local-only — AerioTV has to be running for the recording to capture. No comskip (Dispatcharr-only).
• EPG depends on a separate XMLTV source. You set the URL yourself, and EPG quality is whatever that source provides.
• No stream failover at all. When a stream URL stops working, the provider has to fix the playlist — there's no .m3u8/.ts client fallback like XC has, and no server-side swap like Dispatcharr has.
• Large M3U files can be slow to parse on first launch — a 20,000-channel playlist takes a noticeable beat to ingest.