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Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

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novelty
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actionability
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community
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strategic
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personal
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Open source IPTV alternative, directly actionable and community-vetted.

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Point it at any web page and it finds the video, extracts the stream, transcodes it and casts in real time to your TV. It even burns subtitles…. - stupside/castor
Summary

Castor is an open-source Go tool that extracts video from web pages via headless Chrome and the Chrome DevTools Protocol, transcodes it with ffmpeg, and casts it directly to any DLNA/UPnP smart TV without Chromecast or AirPlay. It accepts IMDB/TMDB IDs, burn-in auto-generated subtitles via Whisper, and supports Samsung, LG, and other modern TVs, but Docker only works on Linux hosts due to SSDP multicast limitations. The tool automates click/iframe navigation and Cloudflare Turnstile solving to capture streams from most streaming sites, making it a developer-friendly alternative to proprietary casting protocols.

Author

stupside