Ten minutes from an installer to a channel. Written down rather than filmed, because reading it is faster than watching someone else do it.
Run the installer and follow the wizard. It asks where to put the application and nothing else — no account, no provider details, no card.
Windows may show a blue “Windows protected your PC” panel while the installer is not yet signed by a certificate authority. Choose More info and then Run anyway. When the certificate is in place, that panel stops appearing.
Settings ▸ Playlist ▸ Add. Two kinds, and your provider gave you one of them:
.m3u or get.php?…. Paste it whole.The catalogue is read once and kept, so it opens instantly afterwards. If your provider adds channels, Settings ▸ Playlist ▸ Reload.
Most playlists carry their own guide, and it is read automatically. Where a provider supplies one separately, paste its address in Settings ▸ Playlist — it outranks whatever the playlist declares.
Beside a channel you get what is on now and what follows. See the whole guide opens nine days, a day at a time.
Channels whose provider keeps an archive show a small marker in the list. Open the guide, find the programme, and press Replay.
It plays with a timeline you can drag, ten seconds either way with the arrow keys, and a preview frame under the pointer so you land where you meant to. Back to live at the top left returns to the broadcast.
One press on a channel plays it; a second fills the screen. A back arrow sits at the top left of anything that fills the screen, so there is always a way out without a keyboard.
Everything else is on the bar over the picture: subtitles, sound track, favourites, the guide, and a sleep timer for whoever falls asleep in front of it. Subtitles too small from the sofa? Settings ▸ Playback ▸ Subtitles has size, colour and a solid box behind the words.
Everything works for 7 days. After that one activation code turns the same installation into a licensed one — see Activate. Nothing is reinstalled and nothing is lost.