Here’s your complete production-level PRD with:
✅ Product name StreamNova ✅ Global IPTV platform scope ✅ Stream validation system ✅ Required GitHub repos from iptv-org ecosystem ✅ Implementation-ready documentation
You can directly use this for:
- GitHub README
- Hackathon submission
- Project proposal
- Portfolio documentation
StreamNova
Global Live TV — Verified Streams Only.
StreamNova is a global IPTV streaming platform that aggregates publicly available TV channels from the iptv-org open-source ecosystem and provides users with a reliable streaming experience by automatically detecting and filtering non-working or broken streams.
The platform enables users to browse and watch verified working channels across all countries and regions.
Build the world’s most reliable public IPTV discovery platform that provides global live television with automated stream validation and high-performance delivery.
Existing IPTV repositories:
- contain many broken streams
- lack validation systems
- provide poor discovery experience
- require manual testing by users
- lack region-based browsing UI
StreamNova will:
- ingest global IPTV data
- validate stream health automatically
- remove non-working streams
- provide global browsing interface
- deliver high-performance streaming UI
- Verified working streams only
- Global TV coverage
- Automated stream health detection
- Modern streaming experience
- Production-grade architecture
- Build portfolio-grade distributed system
- Demonstrate streaming architecture expertise
- Enable open-source contribution
- Watch global channels easily
- Avoid broken streams
- Discover international TV
- Automated validation engine
- Scalable architecture
- Low-latency streaming
- ≥ 95% stream success rate
- < 2s video startup time
- < 5% broken stream exposure
- ≥ 99% system uptime
- Wants international channels
- Needs reliable streams
- Studies streaming systems
- Uses as reference implementation
- Evaluates architecture complexity
- Reviews system scalability
StreamNova depends on the following repositories from iptv-org.
👉 https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv
- Global channel playlists
- Country playlists
- Stream URLs
- Channel metadata
https://iptv-org.github.io/iptv/index.m3u
https://iptv-org.github.io/iptv/countries/us.m3u
https://iptv-org.github.io/iptv/countries/in.m3u
👉 https://github.com/iptv-org/database
- Channel logos
- Language metadata
- Categories
- Country info
👉 https://github.com/iptv-org/epg
- TV schedule data
- Program information
👉 https://github.com/iptv-org/api
- Structured channel data
- Simplified integration
- Fetch full IPTV playlist
- Parse M3U files
- Extract metadata
- Store global channel index
- Check stream availability
- Validate manifest response
- Detect timeouts
- Filter broken streams
- Store health status
- Country-based browsing
- Region filtering
- Language filtering
- Category filtering
- HLS playback using HLS.js
- Click-to-play
- Stream fallback
- Channel search
- Region search
- Category search
- Global channel explorer
- Responsive layout
- Real-time stream health indicator
- Channel popularity ranking
- Recently validated streams
- Favorites
- Recently watched
- Stream uptime score
- Dark/light theme
- Progressive Web App
- User authentication
- Watch history
- EPG integration
- AI recommendations
- Mobile app
- Community reporting system
- < 2s page load
- Smooth playback
- Lazy loading
- Millions of channels
- Distributed workers
- Continuous validation
- Graceful failure handling
- HTTPS
- Stream sanitization
- Rate limiting
- Keyboard navigation
- Screen reader support
- Next.js (App Router)
- React Server Components
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- HLS.js player
- Pull IPTV data
- Parse playlists
- Normalize channels
- Test stream URLs
- Classify health status
- Update database
- Serve validated streams
- Periodic health checks
- Frontend → Vercel
- Backend → Node.js / Express
- Database → MongoDB / PostgreSQL
- Worker Queue → Redis
- Background Jobs → BullMQ / Workers
iptv-org repo
↓
Playlist ingestion
↓
Stream validation workers
↓
Database (verified streams)
↓
Next.js frontend
↓
User playback
- Playlist Parser
- Validation Workers
- Channel Database
- API Layer
- Streaming Player
- Health Scheduler
- Fetch playlist
- Extract stream URL
- Test connection
- Validate manifest
- Record status
- Update channel health
- Working
- Slow
- Geo-blocked
- Offline
- Unknown
GET /api/channels
Filters:
country
region
language
category
status=working
GET /api/channels/search?q=
GET /api/stream/:id/health
{
"id": "cnn_us",
"name": "CNN",
"country": "US",
"category": "news",
"streamUrl": "...",
"healthStatus": "working",
"uptimeScore": 94
}- Global search
- Region selector
- Featured channels
- Country list
- Filters
- Health badges
- Video player
- Channel info
- Health status
- Validation logs
- Stream metrics
Channel {
id
name
country
region
language
category
logo
streamUrl
healthStatus
uptimeScore
lastChecked
}
StreamHealth {
streamId
responseTime
errorType
status
lastValidated
}
- Next.js → Vercel
- Backend → Render / AWS
- Database → MongoDB Atlas
- Queue → Redis
- CDN caching
- Geo-blocked streams
- Provider rate limits
- High validation cost
- Stream instability
- Legal compliance
- Only public IPTV streams used
- No copyrighted hosting
- Clear usage disclaimer
- Respect regional restrictions
- Stream success rate
- Watch duration
- Channel popularity
- Validation failure rate
- User engagement
- Playlist ingestion
- Basic validation
- Streaming player
- Channel explorer
- Automated monitoring
- Health scoring
- Region filters
- Distributed workers
- User features
- Admin dashboard
- Playlist parsing tests
- Stream validation tests
- Load testing
- Playback reliability tests
- Cross-browser testing
| Area | Complexity |
|---|---|
| Frontend | Medium |
| Backend | High |
| Validation engine | Very High |
| Overall system | Advanced |