FongMi/TV

What it is

影視TV is an Android player built for TV boxes, phones and tablets. It plays local files and network URLs, and extends that with browsing, live TV and device-to-device features rather than being a minimal video player. The project is written mainly in Java and is distributed under GPL-3.0, with FFmpeg, Media3 and mpv listed as its technical foundation.

Its feature set spans four areas:

• Browsing: category filters, cross-site search, favorites, playback history and an incognito mode.
• Playback: speed control, subtitles, danmaku, segment skipping, picture-in-picture and background audio.
• Live TV: grouped channel selection, program guides, channel favorites and line switching.
• Interaction and sharing: TV remote control, phone gestures, DLNA casting and receiving, web-based remote control, file transfer, history sync and Android Auto.

It is aimed at people who want one Android client for both on-demand and live content across TV and mobile screens. The crawling/parsing side of the content sources is not part of this repository; the author maintains a separate spider project with Java, Python and QuickJS examples.

Getting started

The repository does not ship installation steps or build commands in its README. The documented entry points are the usage guide for operating the app and the official discussion group for questions and release information. The README also links a spider development project for those who need to work on source parsers. Because the guide is hosted separately, follow the current version there for download and first-run instructions rather than assuming a package path from this README.

Constraints

• Android only: the app targets Android TV, phones and tablets, so other platforms are not covered by this client.
• Some functions depend on other devices on the same network, such as DLNA casting/receiving and web remote control; those features need compatible receivers or a reachable device.
• Live TV and browsing depend on content sources defined outside this repository; the player itself does not supply channels or catalogs.
• The license is GPL-3.0, which matters if you redistribute a modified build.

HotRepo's take

On the Java daily list for 2026-11-01 the project ranked 9th with 27 new stars, against totals of 10,256 stars and 3,011 forks. That is a single recorded snapshot, so it supports the observation of steady activity on that day but not a broader trend claim. The more notable signal is the fork count relative to stars: with roughly three thousand forks, this looks like a project people copy and adapt, consistent with it being an Android player whose source parsers live in a companion repository.