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STREAMS Player · Windows 10 / 11

Radio, live video and RTSP, in one player.

Internet radio · Live video · RTSP

A focused Windows desktop app: browse a curated catalog, add your own streams, and play them - no account, no ads, nothing running in the background you did not ask for.

Windows 10 / 11 Free · MIT source No account No telemetry 13 interface languages
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#What it is & why

STREAMS Player is an independent Windows desktop app for internet radio, live video, and RTSP network cameras. It reads a curated, public stream catalog so you get a working list of channels on first run - then lets you search, sort, pin, and add your own, all stored locally on your machine.

The point is calm: a player that stays a player. The catalog refreshes only when you ask, your manually added and imported streams are never overwritten by an update, and there is no account, advertising, analytics, or author-run service. What runs on your PC is what you started.

#What it can do

Everything needed to find, keep, and play a stream - grouped by what you are actually doing.

01Find a channel

  • Curated catalog on first launch - no setup. A channel the catalog gave no icon still gets a face of its own - initials and a colour taken from its name, plus its country code where known.
  • Filter by category, topic, language, country, media type - open the row when you need it.
  • Search always sits on the title line.
  • Pin the channels you return to.
  • Play a random radio station from the whole catalog - one that stays silent is replaced by the next draw.

02Play the right way

  • Radio plays in the main window and names the track on air whenever the station provides it.
  • Stop the sound without losing the station - the volume you set and the sleep timer stay, ready to resume.
  • Live video and RTSP open in a focused player window that shows the track on air over the picture.
  • A ~15-second live buffer, and video that settles at the quality your connection holds, then opens there next time.

03Watch your way

  • Keep the main window or player always on top, or go borderless full screen with F11 (Esc exits).
  • The player is a window of its own - minimize the catalog and the picture keeps playing.
  • Very Small to Large stream tiles, a resizable Settings window, and a light, dark or Windows-matching theme.
  • Save the frame you are watching as a JPEG.
  • The player says why over the video whenever the picture stops - and re-opens a stream that froze silently.
  • Shrink the catalog to a small always-on-top panel while radio plays - it carries the station, the track, the volume, the transport and the sleep timer.

04Visual grid

  • A grid that captures visible HTTP(S) video previews.
  • Caches preview frames on disk, up to 150 MB.
  • Automatic preview updates can be turned off.

05Make it yours

  • Add a stream by URL, no account.
  • Your added and imported streams survive catalog updates. A catalog channel you pinned or played is kept, not deleted, when the catalog stops listing it.
  • Keep local OK / fail playback marks.
  • Switch the whole interface between thirteen languages; the choice is restored.

06Local by design

  • Catalog state, manual entries, and pins stay on your device.
  • Stored under %LOCALAPPDATA%\StreamsPlayer.
  • Refresh the catalog only when you choose.

#How to use it

Open it and pick a channel - that is the whole flow. Install it with the setup executable, from the Microsoft Store, with winget, or unpack the portable ZIP - or run it from source; you can also launch a stream directly from the command line.

  1. Run it from source

    With the .NET 10 SDK installed, restore, build, and launch from the repository root.

    ./build.ps1 -Run

  2. Pick and play

    Browse the catalog, filter or search, then select a channel. Radio starts in the main window; video and RTSP open in the player window. An ordinary launch starts nothing; turn on Resume playback on startup in Settings and it brings back whatever was playing when you last closed the app.

  3. Open any URL directly

    Play a stream without touching the catalog.

    StreamsPlayer.exe --url "https://example.test/live"

  4. Save a channel to a shortcut

    Select a saved channel, open Settings, and use Copy command or Create desktop shortcut. Both use the channel's stored id.

    StreamsPlayer.exe --id "channel-guid"

  5. Report a problem with the logs

    Open Settings, go to About, and press Send logs to the author. The app packs the current and previous session's diagnostic logs with a short summary of your version, Windows and settings into the Saved files folder (Downloads by default), then opens your mail program with the message ready. The confirmation shows the complete path and can open that folder when you ask; you attach the archive and press Send.

#Distribution

All four channels are available. Run the installer from the latest GitHub Release, get it from the Microsoft Store, download the portable ZIP, or install with winget install SerZhyAle.StreamsPlayer.

EXE
Installer (.exe)Available
 ZIP
Portable ZIPAvailable
 MS
Microsoft StoreAvailable
 WG
wingetAvailable

The installer is the file ending in -windows-x64-setup.exe. It installs for the current user alone and never asks for administrator rights, and uninstalling it leaves your channels, pins and history untouched. It is not signed, so Windows warns the first time you run it; every release publishes a .sha256 file beside each download, so you can check that what you got is what was published.