Monthly News – November 2020

Hi everyone,

Christmas is coming fast. We’re hoping to release Linux Mint 20.1 during the holiday season but we’re on a very tight schedule.

I’d like to thank you all for your donations and for your support. Before rushing back to work on 20.1, I’d like to share some of the progress we made on Hypnotix, our new IPTV player.

Hypnotix was given a preferences screen where you can now configure multiple TV providers:

These providers can be configured via a local M3U playlists, remote M3U URLs or the Xtream API.

Some settings were also added to let you set MPV options, an HTTP user agent and an HTTP referrer:

Hypnotix can handle live TV channels but also VOD libraries for movies and TV series.

Depending on the provider, content can be organized by categories:

You can then select your TV channel on the left and watch it on the right, or go full screen:

VOD (Movies and Series) work slightly differently. Once you select a category you can see all of its content:

Hypnotix fetches IMDb information for the movie or series you want to watch:

To make it easy to browse, episodes within TV Series are organized by seasons:

There’s a lot more we can do with Hypnotix going forward such as:

EPG support (Live TV Program)
PVR (pausing, time-shifting, recording…etc)
Custom categories
Favorites
Hiding unused content

Your feedback will bring us new ideas as well.

For now it’s just a simple content browser and player. We’ll have it fully translated by the time it ships with Linux Mint 20.1 and I’m sure we’ll have plenty of bugs and corner cases to fix as you start using it more and more and challenge its robustness with various IPTV providers and playlists.

Note: Some of the feedback we got related to content itself. Hypnotix is a content reader not a content provider. Similar to the Xreader PDF reader which doesn’t provide any books, or the Celluloid video player which doesn’t provide any videos, Hypnotix doesn’t provide any channels, movies or TV series. Xreader reads your PDFs, Celluloid your video files and Hypnotix your IPTV playlists/providers. We cannot add TV channels, improve their quality or anything like this. Queries related to content should be addressed to content providers directly. By default Hypnotix will ship with only one provider called FreeIPTV. This provider was selected because it only provides freely and publicly available TV channels and no content unsuitable for children.

You can download the BETA version of Hypnotix at https://github.com/linuxmint/hypnotix/releases/download/1.1/hypnotix_1.1_all.deb

If you want to help with Hypnotix’s development, visit Github at https://github.com/linuxmint/hypnotix.

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

Donations in October:

A total of $10,698 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 539 donors:

$500 (4th donation), Neil V.
$108 (5th donation), Torsten P.
$108 (4th donation), Marcus H.
$108, Louis B.
$108, Roy C.
$108, Erik Z.
$108, Jonathan M.
$108, Florian L.
$108, Udo J.
$100 (8th donation), Peter Larson aka “dimbulb“
$100 (5th donation), Jerry S.
$100 (2nd donation), Thomas K.
$100 (2nd donation), Hary A.
$100, Vladimir Kubyshkin
$100, Content2zero
$100, Allen K.
$100, Michael H.
$86, Matthias M R.
$75 (2nd donation), Jacques L.
$59, Georg D.
$54 (7th donation), Naoise G.
$54 (6th donation), Danilo S.
$54 (5th donation), Oliver E.
$54 (5th donation), Juergen S.
$54 (4th donation), E F
$54 (4th donation), Timo M.
$54 (3rd donation), Armin F.
$54 (3rd donation), Philippe P.
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$54 (2nd donation), Thomas D.
$54 (2nd donation), Nicolas H.
$54 (2nd donation), SPY ITALY srl aka “SPY“
$54, Markus G.
$54, Richard W.
$54, Antonio N.
$54, Dawn R.
$54, Stefan K.
$54, Xavier S.
$54, Sébastien B.
$54, Michael M.
$54, Klaus S.
$54, Klaus-peter D.
$54, Thomas K.
$54, Giovanni M.
$54, Günter H.
$54, Ijju
$54, Christian S.
$54, Ulrich H.
$54, Simon T.
$54, Ralf M.
$54, Patrick R.
$54, Nadine G.
$54, Christian W.
$54, kx+d
$54, Matthias P.
$53 (4th donation), Alan H.
$50 (44th donation), Anthony C. aka “ciak”
$50 (5th donation), Eric H.
$50 (4th donation), Don P.
$50 (4th donation), John S.
$50 (3rd donation), Drew Anderson dba Anderson Publishing
$50 (2nd donation), Friedrich B.
$50 (2nd donation), Jorge J.
$50 (2nd donation), Ludwig R.
$50, Joel H.
$50, Roger L.
$50, Gerald S.
$50, Frank C.
$50, Pierre C.
$50, Richard P.
$50, Steve T.
$50, Andriy T.
$50, Mark M.
$50, Marie-josee B.
$50, Jean-charles G.
$50, Jennifer S.
$50, Stephanie S.
$50, Jose Geraldo A.
$50, Ronald B.
$50, Edward S.
$50, Richard H.
$50, Thomas O.
$43, Peter V.
$43, Henry T.
$43, Frederic C.
$43, Walter H.
$38, Anthony I.
$37, Malte K.
$35 (11th donation), Real F.
$35, Andrew M.
$32, Ó.
$32, Jürgen S.
$32, Guido K.
$32, René S.
$30 (2nd donation), Tannis E.
$30, Allen S.
$30, Fabio S.
$30, Nial G.
$28 (14th donation), Christian W.
$28, Free Compters in Education
$27 (7th donation), Peter E.
$27 (6th donation), Peter Schallmoser-Schlogl
$27 (3rd donation), Cedric B.
$27 (2nd donation), Paul W.
$27, Dennis G.
$27, Titanetch.com
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$27, K. P.
$26 (4th donation), Vladimir Litvinenko
$25 (9th donation), Bill Metzenthen
$25 (4th donation), Alex S.
$25 (4th donation), Ron C.
$25 (3rd donation), Jay M.
$25 (2nd donation), Phil S. aka “busdriver12”
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$25 (2nd donation), David E.
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$25, Horst W.
$25, Joel S.
$25, Logan C.
$24, Ricardo P.
$23 (2nd donation), Darcy K.
$22 (11th donation), Michael S.
$22 (8th donation), Michele B. aka “MickyInTheSky“
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$22 (5th donation), Frederic W. aka “Mr frederix”
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$22 (4th donation), Peter P. aka “Swampthing”
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$22, Anthony C.
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$22, Joerg O.
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$22, Jean-paul G.
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$22, Hans-Rudolf Dahl
$22, Dominik S.
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$22, Julia B.
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$22, Daniel S.
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$22, August M.
$22, Marion C.
$21 (50th donation), Fence Baton Rouge
$20 (78th donation), Tree Service Kansas City
$20 (30th donation), Stefan M. H.
$20 (30th donation), John M.
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$20 (24th donation), Mike W aka “bajan52”
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$20 (9th donation), Robert S.
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$20, Kyle T.
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$16 (45th donation), Andreas S.
$16 (5th donation), Martin L. aka “Dr. Vogel”
$16 (3rd donation), Krister R.
$16, Pascal U.
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$15 (51th donation), Johann J.
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$13, Marc G.
$12 (116th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
$12 (14th donation), Lance A.
$12 (3rd donation), Frederick F.
$12 (3rd donation), David B.
$12, Michael F.
$11 (15th donation), Piotr L aka “xpil“
$11 (14th donation), Raymond M. (retired)
$11 (8th donation), Daniel S.
$11 (8th donation), Abdulkadir H.
$11 (7th donation), Alexander P.
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$11 (4th donation), Paolo C.
$11 (4th donation), Filip N.
$11 (4th donation), Erik L.
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$11 (4th donation), Stefan S.
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$10 (56th donation), Thomas C.
$10 (51th donation), Frank K.
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$9 (4th donation), Florian J.
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$6, Max M.
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$3, Jacob Buhl M.
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$2 (2nd donation), Charles F.
$2, Noor K.
$2, Shiqua H. aka “huangshq”
$25 from 25 smaller donations