A native IPTV client for PlayStation 5 homebrew
Browse, search, and save channels from your own M3U playlists or Xtream
Codes provider with an offline-first SQLite cache, a
controller-first interface, native PS5 video decoding, and updates that
install themselves.
Note
Version 01.000.020 brings a new interface. It is built on
ps5-homebrew-ui and lives in
opengl-ui/; the catalog, the stores, and the player are the ones earlier
versions used. Coming from 01.000.015 or older: see Updating ProsperoTV.
- Bring your own channels: add an HTTP(S) M3U playlist or connect an Xtream Codes account. ProsperoTV ships with no third-party list of its own.
- Search by name and filter by country, language, category, and advertised quality with continuous controller paging.
- Decode H.264, HEVC, and VP9 through native PS5 video paths at resolutions up to 4K.
- Keep the catalog, favorites, recent channels, and source state fast and
persistent under
/data/prosperotv, where an update never touches them. - Update from inside the app: a newer version listed on prosperostore.net is offered at launch with its release notes, downloaded, and installed in place.
- Handle live HLS buffering, stale segments, alternate URLs, and failed feeds without destabilizing the next playback session.
- Use a full-screen OpenGL interface at up to 4K with DualSense navigation, channels drawn as television sets, an alphabet beside every list, native text input, dedicated Favorites, and an optional playback statistics overlay.
Important
Built on the PS5 Native App Boilerplate. ProsperoTV retains its C++20 application structure, reproducible clean-room runtime, FSELF tooling, tests, deployment flow, and release automation.
Important
ProsperoTV includes no channel list. It is an independent client: every channel comes from a source you add, this project hosts no streams, and channel availability can change without notice.
| Identity | Value |
|---|---|
| Shell title | ProsperoTV |
| Title ID | PPSA99003 |
| Shell category | Media |
| Current version | 01.000.090 |
| Release-version source | sce_sys/param.json |
| Writable data | /data/prosperotv; the title's own /download0 when filesystem access is not available |
- Add your own sources: HTTP(S) M3U/M3U8 playlists, Xtream Codes accounts (masked password entry), MAC-code portals (Stalker/Ministra style), and tuners or servers on the home network such as HDHomeRun and Tvheadend.
- Keep several sources, each with its own cache, visible categories, and refresh schedule: daily, weekly, or only when asked.
- Load large providers: up to 250,000 channels from one source, read as the list downloads.
- Choose which of a provider's categories appear. Hiding a parent hides all of its subcategories.
- Add and edit playlists and accounts from a phone or a computer with the phone remote, instead of the on-screen keyboard.
- In Sources, R2 opens per-source HTTP settings: user agent, referrer and custom
request headers. Enter one
Name: valueat a time on TV (empty saves,-clears all), or paste up to 16 lines / 4 KiB in the paired phone editor. Saved custom values stay hidden on the phone; a blank field keeps them. Channel user agents/referrers and built-in authentication take precedence. Custom headers stay on the source's HTTP origin and are removed on redirects to another origin. USB playlists use each initial stream URL as their origin.
- Open the last verified catalog at once from a local cache while a refresh runs in the background.
- Browse Live TV by the provider's own categories and subcategories, shown as the row of filters above the channels, beside Favorites and Recent.
- Search by channel name, and filter by country, language, category, and advertised quality, with the native PS5 keyboard.
- See channel logos on the tiles and on the large television.
- Preview the focused live channel, with sound, on the large television after a moment on it.
- Turn pages by holding L2 or R2, faster the longer they are held, in Live TV, Movies, and Series; jump by letter with the column beside every list.
- Keep up to 65,536 favorites, organized in named folders.
- Hide the channels that did not open the last time, and start on the channel watched last, from Settings.
- Return to the same screen, group, page, and channel after playback closes.
- See what each channel is showing now and next, from the guide a playlist or an account points to.
- Open the full grid of channels and hours, and start a channel from it.
- Search programmes by title, not only channels by name.
- Play a programme that has already been shown, on channels whose provider keeps a catch-up archive.
- Browse movies, shows, seasons, and episodes from an Xtream account or a classified M3U playlist in On demand, next to Live TV.
- See the provider's newest movies and shows first in every category, by the date an Xtream provider added them; titles it gives no date follow by title, so an M3U playlist is listed by title.
- Open Movies or TV shows from the saved copy, read in the background while the status line says so; the On demand menu counts both without loading either, and switching between them keeps the list left at hand.
- Carry on with a show from Continue, at the top of its episode list: the episode watched last, from the time it was left at.
- Play H.264 and HEVC in MP4 or Matroska, up to 4K.
- Zap with up and down, go back to the channel watched before with one button, or pick another channel from a list over the picture.
- See a banner with the channel's name and its programme when a channel opens or when asked for.
- Choose among the audio tracks a channel carries, and show its subtitles.
- Press Options for the playback menu: one page with audio, sound delay, subtitles and their size and color, the picture's shape, chapters and quality, each opening a list with the value in use ticked. Picture shapes are shown as small previews, and Fit names the video's own shape.
- Choose an HLS rendition manually, or enable Auto quality reduction for buffering on a slow connection. Auto only reduces quality and requires compatible renditions.
- Pause live TV and go back a few minutes.
- Set a sleep timer.
- Record live TV to USB with Touchpad, or schedule a recording or reminder from the guide's Options menu. Keep the app running; recording uses an additional provider connection.
- Watch two or four live channels side by side in Multiview, with sound following the focused one. Four 720p H.264 feeds are validated on hardware; higher resolutions depend on the decoder resources available.
- Codec, resolution, frame rate, and bitrate appear for five seconds when playback starts, with the sound's format, channels, and whether the console's decoder (HW) or software (SW) is decoding it, then disappear like the bottom playback banner. Press Touchpad + R1 to show them again for five seconds, or turn on Stats line under Troubleshooting in Settings to keep them on screen.
- Play HLS and direct MPEG-TS streams with H.264 or HEVC video, and direct WebM streams with VP9 Profile 0, through the PS5's hardware decoders.
- Show HDR10 and HLG channels as HDR, with SDR tone mapping when HDR output is not available.
- Present each field of an interlaced broadcast separately to keep its motion.
- Play AAC, MP2, AC-3, E-AC-3, and DTS sound (the core of a DTS-HD track), with Stereo by default and optional decoded 5.1 surround for compatible HDMI receivers.
- Keep the picture in step with the sound: frames are timed against the sound being played.
- Adapt buffering to live HLS timing, and recover from stale segments and alternate addresses without giving up on the channel.
- Show a tuning screen until the channel's first picture, and say why a channel did not open: HTTP status, regional restriction, unsupported encryption or codec, malformed playlist, or decoder error.
- Lock adult categories behind a parental PIN, and switch to a mode that shows only the channels for children.
- Set a daily viewing allowance and bedtime for the children's mode.
- Keep favorites, recent channels, and sources separate for each person signed in on the console.
- Use the interface in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Arabic, or Hebrew, with right-to-left layouts where appropriate. Follow the console language or choose an override in Settings and restart. Provider content keeps its own text.
- Back up sources, favorites, and settings to a USB drive, and restore them on this console or another.
- Share sources and favorites between consoles over an encrypted local connection, verifying the receiver's fingerprint first.
- Control the app from a phone's browser with the phone remote.
- Update in place: a newer version is offered at launch with Update now, What's new, and Later, and everything saved is kept.
- Keep all data under
/data/prosperotv, where an update never touches it; a failed refresh leaves the last good catalog untouched. - Send a useful problem report: a diagnostic log switch in Settings (off by default, no account details), and a failure report saved to a USB drive.
- Recover a minimal report after a caught fatal signal and skip automatic playback on the next launch. Forced termination and power loss cannot be recorded by the crash handler.
- Use a full-screen OpenGL interface at up to 4K, built with the ps5-homebrew-ui kit, with fonts for Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean channel names, interface sounds, and a Reduce motion setting. Settings also offers Dusk, Ocean and Forest themes, opaque high-contrast menus, and 25% larger text (applied when the menu next opens). Channel artwork and video retain their colors. A black screensaver protects idle menus and paused video after 1, 5 or 10 minutes; five minutes is the default, and it can be turned off. The first button wakes the screen without activating a control. Active multiview stays visible.
Provider requirements and validation for these features are in the implementation guide.
| Codec | Supported path | Output classes |
|---|---|---|
| H.264 / AVC | MPEG-TS, HLS, MP4 and Matroska; Baseline, Main, and High profiles within the configured level limits | 720p, 1080p, 1440p, 2160p |
| HEVC | MPEG-TS, HLS, MP4 and Matroska; Main / Main10, 8-bit or 10-bit 4:2:0, SDR output | 720p, 1080p, 1440p, 2160p |
| VP9 | Direct WebM; Profile 0, 8-bit 4:2:0 | 1080p, 1440p, 2160p |
Sources up to 1080p use a 1920×1080 presentation surface. Native 1440p video is scaled to the 4K output surface, while 2160p video is decoded and presented at 3840×2160. Codec and renderer details are documented in Architecture and Testing.
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| D-pad / left stick | Move focus; Right past the last column reaches the letters |
| Cross | Select, open, or play |
| Circle | Back, dismiss, or clear active filters |
| Square | Add or remove a favorite |
| Triangle | Open advanced search and filters |
| L1 / R1 | Switch between Home, Live TV, On demand, Favorites, Sources, Settings, and About |
| L2 / R2 | Previous or next page; hold to keep turning |
| Triangle on a configurable source | Edit the custom M3U URL or Xtream account |
| Square in Sources | Cycle daily, weekly and manual refresh |
| Touchpad in Live TV / Favorites | Provider categories / favorite folders |
| R1 inside categories / folders | Channel number pad: enter a number, then Watch |
| L1 inside categories / folders | Rename, hide/restore, or move channels in the list |
| R3 in the channel browser | Open the programme guide |
| L3 in Live TV / Favorites | Open Multiview; Square chooses a channel, Triangle switches two/four tiles, R3 mutes, Cross opens full screen |
| Options | Refresh the selected catalog source |
| Cross during playback | Pause or resume; in the open channel list, watch the channel |
| L2 during live TV | Open or close the channel list |
| Up at the top of a screen, or Circle on Live TV | Focus the tabs; Left / Right change the tab, Down, Cross or Circle go back in; Left of Home is Search |
| Circle during playback | Close the open panel, or stop playback and return to the browser |
| Options during playback | Open or close the audio/subtitle/picture panel |
| L1 / R1 in the playback panel | Switch between Audio, Subtitles and Picture |
| Touchpad + R1 during playback | Show video and sound codecs and FPS/performance statistics for five seconds |
During playback, Options then L1 opens Picture. Fit preserves the decoded picture's proportions by default; Stretch fills the screen, while 4:3 and 16:9 correct anamorphic or incorrectly advertised proportions. The choice lasts for the current playback session. Picture correction applies to live TV, movies and episodes.
The television's own remote works too, over HDMI-CEC, as it does in the console's menus. Turn on Settings > System > HDMI > Enable HDMI Device Link on the console (and the TV's CEC setting, for example BRAVIA Sync on Sony TVs). The remote can be used alongside the controller or instead of it.
| Remote key | In the menu | During playback |
|---|---|---|
| Arrows | Move focus; Up from the top of a screen reaches the tabs, Left / Right there change the tab, and Left of Home is Search | As the D-pad |
| OK | Select, open, or play | As Cross: pause or resume, or watch the channel in the open list |
| Back | Back | Close the open panel, or stop playback |
| Play / Pause | Play the channel in focus | Pause or resume, even with a list or the panel open |
| Rewind / Fast forward | Previous or next page | Step back and on, as Left and Right |
| Channel − / Channel + | As L1 / R1, if the TV passes them on | As L1 / R1: previous or next channel on live TV |
| Menu / Options | As Options | Open or close the playback panel |
Which keys a television passes on is up to the television; arrows, OK and Back are the ones every CEC remote sends.
Provider channel numbers (tvg-chno / channel-number in M3U, num in Xtream,
number in MAC portals) appear in the channel hero and playback channel list.
Numbers such as 7.2 and leading zeros are preserved. Channels without a number
keep their alphabetical position. The number pad searches only the current
visible list; when numbers repeat, narrow the list before choosing one. Existing
cached lists acquire provider numbers on their next refresh.
In Live TV or Favorites, focus a channel and open Touchpad, then L1 for channel options. Names are saved locally without changing provider IDs, guide matching, or parental rules. An empty name or Use provider name restores the original. Hidden channels lets you restore individual channels, including when the current list is empty. A hidden provider category must also be shown for its channels to appear.
Move up/down swaps a channel with its visible neighbor. Live lists share one saved order; Favorites and its folders share a separate order. Both survive refreshes and restarts; new channels are appended alphabetically. Reset list order restores alphabetical order for the current kind of list.
During playback, Options opens the Playback sheet with Sound, Subtitles, Picture and Video. Picture offers Fit, Stretch, corrected 4:3 or 16:9, Fill (crop), and 125% or 150% zoom, each with a preview of its shape. Controls and captions stay within the visible crop. Text subtitles have Small/Medium/Large sizes and White/Yellow/Cyan colors; image subtitles retain the provider's artwork. These choices are saved for the next video.
In multiview, Touchpad keeps the selected live channel playing in a corner while you browse lists or the programme guide. L3 in the live list closes picture in picture.
Live TV also offers Recently added (first seen by this app) and Most watched (successful viewing sessions), with history saved separately for each profile and source.
On Demand: Square opens provider title details; R3 filters loaded metadata by genre/year or changes sorting (Recently added, the default, or Title A-Z, Title Z-A, Newest year, Highest rating; a show's episodes default to episode order). Movie details are fetched when opened and retained in the local cache.
Connect your phone to the same Wi-Fi, then select Settings → Pair a phone on the TV. Scan the QR code (or type the displayed address) and enter the six-digit code on the website. The code expires after two minutes, is accepted once, and is cancelled when you close the pairing screen. No app installation or internet connection is needed for the remote. The dialog closes automatically when a newly paired or remembered browser connects, and the TV shows "Phone connected".
The TV remembers up to eight browsers. A saved browser reconnects after a page reload or app restart without another code. Its cookie lasts one year; private browsing, clearing cookies, or a changed console IP may require pairing again. Use Forget this phone on the website or Forget paired phones in TV Settings to revoke access. Pairing must be saved on the console before the website reports success.
Use the arrows and OK to navigate, Back to return or stop playback, and the section and favorite buttons for the corresponding controller actions. While a channel is playing, Favorite adds or removes that channel without stopping playback; the phone confirms the change after it is saved. Type a channel name on the phone and tap Search on TV (or the keyboard's Search key). Clear removes the text query; existing category/country filters still apply. Search accepts up to 39 Unicode characters and is available in the channel browser. It also works while the TV's native search keyboard is open. The Search & filters on TV button opens the existing advanced search panel.
Open Channels and guide to browse the active source on the phone, search channel names or programmes on now, and read upcoming programmes. Tap a channel to watch it, including while another channel or movie is playing. Hidden and parentally restricted channels stay unavailable; changing sources on the TV requires reloading the phone's channel list.
The Volume sliders in TV Settings and on the phone control the same saved ProsperoTV volume, including live playback and interface sounds. Zero mutes it; 100% keeps the stream's original level. This does not change the television's hardware volume.
The remote uses HTTP on your local network. Use it on a trusted LAN and do not forward its port to the internet. The app requests port 8888 and uses an assigned port when that is unavailable. Use the current address on the pairing screen; the saved browser credential remains valid if only the port changes. Controller use continues even if the remote cannot start.
Building requires Linux, WSL, or a Linux CI runner. On Ubuntu, Debian, or WSL:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install clang-18 clang-format-18 clang-tidy-18 curl git lld-18 make \
pkg-config python3 python3-pip python3-venv tar unzip wget libsqlite3-dev \
cmake ninja-build libpng-dev libjpeg-dev zlib1g-devThe build downloads, verifies, and caches the public PS5 Payload SDK, zlib,
PacBrew's SQLite port, and GoogleTest below the
ignored .deps/ directory. No proprietary Sony SDK, firmware module,
encryption key, or game asset is included or fetched.
Run the read-only prerequisite check before building:
make doctorSee Getting started and Native tooling for detailed environment setup.
sce_sys/param.json is the source of truth for the app
identity and release version. Keep PPSA99003 when publishing an update;
changing the title ID creates a separate PS5 title.
# Lint and run the host tests of the shared catalog, stores, and player.
make lint
make test
# The released app: the interface in opengl-ui/ on top of those sources.
opengl-ui/tools/run-tests.sh
opengl-ui/ps5/assemble.sh
make -C ../prosperotv-ui-build appRelease outputs are written beside the repository:
../prosperotv-ui-build/dist/PPSA99003/ complete title folder
../prosperotv-ui-build/dist/PPSA99003.zip the release download
GitHub Releases provide PPSA99003.zip, which contains the complete
PPSA99003 title folder, and SHA256SUMS. See
opengl-ui/README.md for how that build is put
together. A release ZIP built by GitHub Actions can
be checked with the GitHub CLI:
gh attestation verify PPSA99003.zip -R ThatGuyKalvin/ProsperoTV
(releases built from now on, not earlier ones).
The repository root still builds the interface of 01.000.015 and earlier
(make check, make app); it shares the catalog, stores, and player with
the released app and is kept for their tests. It is no longer released.
Extract PPSA99003.zip and upload its complete PPSA99003 folder to
/data/homebrew, producing /data/homebrew/PPSA99003/eboot.bin.
ShadowMountPlus then puts
ProsperoTV on the home screen.
Do not upload the ZIP itself or copy only eboot.bin; the app also requires
its runtime module, fonts, sounds, artwork, metadata, and the two helper
programs beside eboot.bin.
ProsperoTV asks the console's payload loader (port 9021, which a
ShadowMountPlus setup already runs) for filesystem access when it starts. With
it, the app keeps its files in /data/prosperotv and can update itself.
Without it, the app runs in its own storage as earlier versions did and is
updated by hand.
From 01.000.020 on, ProsperoTV checks prosperostore.net once per launch. When a newer version is listed it offers Update now, What's new, and Later. The update downloads the release, closes the app, and replaces its files; sources, favorites, recent channels, and settings stay as they are. An app installed as an image cannot update itself.
Coming from 01.000.015 or older, update by hand once:
- Fully close ProsperoTV.
- If you installed
PPSA99003.ffpfsc, delete it from/data/homebrew; the image form is no longer published, and the folder and the image must not both be in ShadowMountPlus scan paths. - Upload the complete
PPSA99003folder from the ZIP to/data/homebrew, replacing the old one. - Restart ShadowMountPlus or the PS5, and wait for the title to be rediscovered before launching it.
Keeping the PPSA99003 title ID lets the new version find the sources,
favorites, history, and account the old one saved; it copies them to
/data/prosperotv the first time it starts.
Note
ProsperoTV starts with no channels. Add a playlist or account on the Sources tab; its first download is validated and cached, and later launches load the local database immediately.
Xtream support is for credentials supplied by the user. ProsperoTV does not include, sell, or discover provider accounts. The server, username, and password are stored in a local record beside the app's other data and are never written to the application log; the credential record is not encrypted, so do not share title data copied from the console.
make test # GoogleTest unit suite and Python integration tests
make lint # formatting, static analysis, metadata, and shell checks
opengl-ui/tools/run-tests.sh # the interface and its logic, under ASan and UBSanHost tests cover M3U and Xtream catalog parsing and persistence, HLS parsing, HTTP error classification, MPEG-TS access-unit handling, VP9/WebM parsing, native-app layout, runtime handoff, and presentation constraints. Hardware acceptance is performed separately on PS5 with bounded channel samples, decoder telemetry, and teardown checks.
GitHub Actions runs linting, the host tests, and deterministic runtime
reproduction on every pull request and version tag, and checks that the tag matches
contentVersion. A pull request's build is uploaded under its number and
commit: see Pull-request builds. The same run
builds the released app from opengl-ui/ on a clean machine, fetching every
dependency at its pinned version. A version tag also publishes: the ZIP that
run built is attached to a GitHub Release with its SHA256SUMS and the notes
in docs/releases/<version>.md. No release is built anywhere else. A push to
main builds nothing; a build on main is started by hand (Actions,
Build, Run workflow).
opengl-ui/ The released interface, its logic, tests, and console build
src/main.cpp Earlier interface: SDL/RmlUi lifetime and renderer bridge
src/iptv_app.cpp Earlier interface: screens, focus, search, and paging
src/iptv_xtream.cpp Xtream credentials, Player API parsing, and live URLs
src/iptv_player.cpp Stream selection, buffering, playback, and errors
src/iptv_stream.cpp MPEG-TS demux and H.264/HEVC access-unit assembly
src/iptv_native_backend.c Native video/audio decode and presentation backend
src/iptv_catalog.cpp Extended M3U catalog parser
src/iptv_store.cpp SQLite last-good catalog persistence
src/iptv_webm.cpp Bounded WebM/VP9 parser
include/ Public application and media interfaces
ui/ Earlier interface: RML, RCSS, fonts, and icons
sce_sys/ PS5 metadata and launcher assets
runtime/ Reproducible clean-room libc.prx output
tooling/native/ ELF, FSELF, and runtime-generation tooling
tests/ Host unit and integration regressions
docs/ Architecture, build, testing, and deployment guides
contentVersion in sce_sys/param.json drives the
packaged metadata, the version on the About page, the Git tag, and the GitHub Release. It uses the
PS5 NN.NNN.NNN format without a v prefix.
# After updating param.json and passing the release gates:
git tag 01.000.050
git push origin main 01.000.050The workflow rejects a mismatched tag, builds the app, and publishes the
release with the notes in docs/releases/01.000.050.md. See
Configuration for the coordinated metadata fields.
A release is made by pushing the version tag and in no other way: the
workflow builds, attests, and publishes PPSA99003.zip and SHA256SUMS, and
files are not attached by hand. If the tag has no release yet, the workflow
creates it; if a release exists without a ZIP (notes written in advance, or a
draft), it adds the two files and leaves the title and notes alone; if a
release already has a ZIP, nothing is replaced and the run ends with a
warning.
- Public IPTV URLs can disappear, move, become GeoIP-restricted, require provider-specific headers, or reject access at any time.
- DRM and encrypted HLS media are intentionally unsupported.
- VP9 currently supports direct, video-only WebM Profile 0 streams. DASH, fragmented MP4, WebM audio, VP9 Profile 2, and general Matroska features are outside the supported path.
- Interlaced H.264 presents each field separately, preserving broadcast motion at 50 or 60 fields per second. Spatial bob reduces vertical detail in each field; it does not perform motion-adaptive reconstruction. Interlaced streams rejected by the hardware decoder use bounded software decoding up to 1080i.
- MPEG-TS playback supports H.264 and 8-bit/10-bit HEVC video. Main10 uses hardware decoding and GPU presentation. BT.2020/PQ and HLG select HDR10 output; HLG converts to PQ, and rejected HDR output requests fall back to SDR tone mapping. Static mastering/content-light metadata is retained, but custom HDMI metadata forwarding is unverified. The Main10 presentation path currently requires decoder pitch to match visible width (standard 720p/1080p/1440p/2160p widths). Unsupported audio may continue as silent video when the video path remains valid.
- A source may hold up to 250,000 channels; a larger one loads its first 250,000 and says so. A list of that size takes about 75 MiB of memory and a minute or more to download from a slow provider.
- An On Demand list (movies, or shows) may hold up to 250,000 titles; a longer one keeps its first 250,000 and says so. A list of 200,000 films takes about 300 MiB of memory while it is open and a minute and a half to download; an entry the provider sends malformed is left out rather than failing the list.
- Catalog metadata describes a channel but cannot guarantee that its current stream is online, correctly labeled, or compatible with the PS5 decoder.
ProsperoTV displays the most specific detected cause when a channel cannot be played. A channel failure does not imply that the app, the source, or the console is unavailable.
Ideas for future versions are kept in ROADMAP.md. None of them is scheduled or promised; issues asking for one, or for something else, are welcome.
Thank you to the people who test ProsperoTV on their own consoles and report what they find:
- Bastian-R-dotcom (GitHub), for the reports and requests behind Movies and TV shows, the Xtream and M3U fixes, the handling of badly formatted media, the 4K colour report, the film details report and newest-first On Demand.
- Cold (GitHub), for helping with testing, the channel-by-channel sound measurements that found 5.1 sound playing too quietly, and the report of channels missing from a category.
- Lighting999, for the Jordan TV report that led to live playlists of any length.
- laurensramandt (GitHub), for asking for custom user agents.
- tvk-source (GitHub), for asking for M3U Plus support.
- Cevap05 (GitHub), for asking for large playlists.
- toro-2 (GitHub), for the first report of channels that would not load.
And to the people who contribute code:
- ThatGuyKalvin (GitHub), for the playback menu, channel list and controls drawn at the screen's resolution, DTS sound, lip sync timed by when each picture reaches the screen, the sound in the statistics line, pictures 0.4 s sooner at every start and seek, newest-first On Demand, PlayStation button shapes in every hint, keeping whole lists when a provider sends oversized data, seeking within the open video, the HDR colour fix, the Stats line switch, the Continue row of a show, long on-demand lists, the quicker On Demand menu, the TV remote and the film and show counts of a source.
- Cold (GitHub), for Normalize channel volume, which brings quiet and loud channels to a similar level.
- Oliv3rmoon (GitHub), for listing a channel in every category its provider names.
Built with the PS5 Payload SDK by John Törnblom (ps5-payload-dev). Third-party components, authors and licenses are listed in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.
Copyright © 2026 BlackBearReloaded and contributors. Licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later; see LICENSE. The repository's move to ThatGuyKalvin changes no copyright or licence notice. Third-party components keep their own licenses. Binary releases are built from the tagged source in this repository.
- No affiliation. This is an independent homebrew project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Sony Interactive Entertainment. "PlayStation", "PS5" and related marks are trademarks of Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
- No proprietary material. No Sony SDK, firmware, encryption keys or decrypted system modules are included.
- No warranty. This project is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, to the extent permitted by law. See sections 15 and 16 of the GPL.
- Use at your own risk. Running homebrew requires a modified console, which may void its warranty, breach the platform's terms of service, or cause data loss.
- Legal use only. Use it only with hardware, accounts and content you own. This project does not support or enable piracy.
This project was developed with AI assistance from OpenAI and/or Anthropic tools.