hacktv-gui - a GUI frontend application for hacktv

September 5, 2026 ยท View on GitHub

hacktv-gui is, as the name suggests, a GUI frontend application for hacktv, which is available at https://codeberg.org/fsphil/hacktv/ or https://github.com/captainjack64/hacktv/. It allows you to run hacktv without the use of a command line. In addition, it includes playlist support, a handler for online teletext services, and support for any streaming video site which is compatible with yt-dlp. You can also save your settings to a file and reload them later.

Downloads are available in the Releases section.
For Linux or Mac, details on how to install and use can be found on the Getting Started wiki page.

Prerequisites

  • A Java 21 or later runtime environment is required. Java 8 will not work. Temurin or Microsoft's build of OpenJDK have been tested.
  • To use yt-dlp features, a copy of yt-dlp is required. This can be either in your system path, or placed in the same directory as the JAR file. The Windows installer provides a yt-dlp download as an optional extra.

Licence information

This project is licensed under GNU GPL v2 or later. Feel free to reuse any of this code in a GPL v3 project.