Samsung TV / videos / TV XTREME HUB
REVIEW
TV Xtreme HUB is an IPTV shell that lives or dies by the playlist you feed it.
Desoline's Tizen player loads M3U and Xtream Codes feeds, hands you an EPG-shaped grid, and otherwise stays out of the way — which is the entire pitch.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
Tizen’s app store has roughly two dozen IPTV players, and most of them look like the same app with different icons. TV Xtreme HUB sits in the middle of that pile — competent, free, and entirely dependent on whatever playlist the user feeds it. The developer, Desoline, ships an engine and a settings screen. The channels, the EPG, and the responsibility for the content are all the user’s.
That framing is the only honest way to review it. Judging TV Xtreme HUB on catalogue or content quality is a category error; the catalogue is whatever URL got pasted into the configuration screen. What can be judged is how the app handles that URL — how quickly the playlist parses, how cleanly the EPG binds, how the player behaves when a stream stutters, how the remote navigation feels at the third-level category nest. On those measures, TV Xtreme HUB is fine. Not memorable, not broken, fine.
The pitch the app makes implicitly is one of restraint. It does not bundle a launcher, does not push notifications, does not try to monetise the install with a paid tier or a content-discovery layer. That restraint is rare on Tizen, where IPTV apps frequently bury the playlist editor behind two ad screens and a “Pro” upgrade prompt. In a crowded category, doing less without charging for it is the move that distinguishes this one.
TV Xtreme HUB does not ship channels. It ships a viewer for channels you supply, and judges itself accordingly.
FEATURES
TV Xtreme HUB is a generic IPTV player for Samsung Tizen TVs. It accepts M3U / M3U8 playlist URLs and Xtream Codes credentials (host, username, password), parses the channel list, and presents it as a categorised grid with channel logos pulled from the playlist's tvg-logo tags. EPG data binds in via XMLTV URL when the playlist supplier provides one.
Playback handles the standard IPTV codec spread — H.264 and HEVC over HLS, MPEG-TS, and progressive HTTP — at resolutions up to 4K where the source stream and the TV both support it. The app exposes a parental-control PIN, multi-playlist switching (so a household can keep one feed for the kids' channels and one for sports), and a favourites list that survives playlist refreshes.
Settings include manual buffer-size tuning, a hardware-decoder toggle for stubborn streams, and aspect-ratio overrides for letterboxed channels. No DRM-protected catalogues, no built-in content, no subscription — the developer charges nothing and provides nothing to watch. You bring the URL.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Stripped-down focus is the win. TV Xtreme HUB does not try to be a smart hub, a launcher, or a content discovery surface — it is a playlist parser plus a video element, and that narrow scope means it boots fast, navigates with the Samsung remote without lag, and rarely surprises the user.
The Xtream Codes integration is the differentiator against the dozen other Tizen IPTV apps. Pasting a host plus username and password is easier than typing a long M3U URL into a TV keyboard, and the resulting category tree is cleaner than what the raw playlist would produce. EPG binding, when the upstream provider supplies XMLTV, produces a recognisable now-and-next grid that makes the app feel like a TV instead of a list of links.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
Reliability tracks the playlist, not the app. A flaky upstream M3U source — and most are — produces freezes, audio drops, and channels that simply will not start; the app's error messages are generic ("Stream not available") and offer no diagnostic path. There is no built-in stream-health indicator, no bitrate display, no way to test a single channel without losing your place.
The interface is dated. Channel art is whatever the playlist supplier ships, category headers are unstyled, and the EPG grid is functional rather than considered. Search is absent — to find a channel you scroll, which on a 600-channel international playlist is a chore. Compared to better-resourced Tizen IPTV apps like IPTV Smarters Pro or OTT Navigator, TV Xtreme HUB feels like a 2019-era utility that has had bugs fixed but not had its design rethought.
CONCLUSION
Install TV Xtreme HUB if you already pay for an Xtream Codes service and want a no-frills Tizen front-end for it. Skip it if you don't have a playlist already — the app does not provide one and is not legally a way to acquire one. Watch for whether Desoline ever invests in interface design; the engine is fine, the surface is not.