How to set up HotPlayer on Windows
A step-by-step guide to watch IPTVin IPTV with HotPlayer on your Windows: install the app, sign in with your login details and start streaming.
Follow the steps
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Add Hot Player from the Microsoft Store
Open the Microsoft Store on the PC and search Hot Player, or use the button above. Choose Get and wait. A trial is included; the playlist licence is bought from HotPlayer afterwards.
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Launch Hot Player
Launch it from the Start menu.
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HotPlayer requests a playlist
On first launch HotPlayer reports no playlist and displays a device ID alongside hotplayer.app/upload. Leave the screen where it is.
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Register the playlist at hotplayer.app/upload
From a browser, open hotplayer.app/upload. Set the source to Xtream Codes, supply the server URL, username and password from your activation email, and save.
The browser on the same PC is fine for this — the upload page is a website, not part of the app.
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Return to the app and select Refresh
Back in Hot Player, choose Refresh. The saved playlist is picked up straight away.
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Playback time
The channel list, films and series load in. Select a channel to begin playback.
Installing HotPlayer on Windows: what is different
On Windows, HotPlayer is a desktop program — install it from the Microsoft Store or run the installer from the developer's site.
SmartScreen may warn about an installer it has not seen before. Choose More info › Run anyway only if you downloaded HotPlayer from its official page.
A wired Ethernet connection is worth using on a desktop PC: Wi-Fi adapters on older machines are the usual cause of stuttering at high bitrates.
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