This tutorial will teach you how to record IPTV on any Android-powered device. This process works great on most Android TV Boxes, NVIDIA SHIELD, Mi Box, and 1st/2nd Generation Fire TV Boxes.
Replacing cable and satellite with an IPTV service is something that many people are doing, which saves lots of money. One big feature that has been missing is the ability to record IPTV on streaming devices.
Although many of us no longer require recorded television due to all of the on-demand content available, there are still times when this is needed. There are some broadcasts that are typically difficult to find through on-demand outlets such as sports, news shows, special events, and daily shows.
To follow this tutorial, you will need an Android device and IPTV subscription that allows you to use their URL for setup purposes. Some IPTV providers don’t allow this and this tutorial won’t work with those.
Your Android device must be capable of storing large video files for this solution to work well. Most streaming devices come with small internal drives but we can usually extend the storage by using USB drives or SD cards.
Unfortunately, the 2nd Generation Fire TV Stick and Fire TV 3 do not allow us to expand the storage like most other Android TV boxes do. We can only hope that the new Fire TV Cube will allow us to expand storage with external drives like the 1st Generation and 2nd Generation Fire TV Boxes did.
In the following video tutorial, I am using the Mecool M8S Pro L Android TV Box along with Area 51 and Eternal TV IPTV services. I am also expanding the storage on this device with a SanDisk Ultra CZ48 256GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive.
If you would like to watch an IPTV channel at the same time as you are recording, you must ensure that you order at least 2 connections from your IPTV provider. The reason for this is because one connection is used to record IPTV stream and the other is used to view the channel that you are watching.
How To Record IPTV
The following video will take you through the necessary steps to record IPTV on an Android device.
References Mentioned In Video
Area 51 URL for IPTV Extreme App: http://iptv-area-51.tv:2095
Eternal TV URL for IPTV Extreme App: http://live.eternaltv.net:25461
SanDisk Ultra CZ48 256GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive
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New Recording Functions Through Popular Services
Many of the popular IPTV services such as Eternal TV and Area 51 now provide a recording function. See video below for instructions.
Tell us what you think of this process in the comments section below. Also, what features would you like to see added to IPTV Extreme?
IPTV url for Players Klub?
Hi Troy, My question is what would be a good apk to use with one of my IPTV services? I Currently have Sportz and PK and run them through IPTV extreme. Each have 2 connections giving me a total of 4. The issue I am having is recording 2 shows that come on at the same time as IPTV extreme only allows for recording of one thing at a time taking up that specific time slot. Is there a way to change that to allow more than one recording with extreme? Or is there another apk I could use that… Read more »
Hi Caleb, I have never had great luck with any type of recording for IPTV. I think this is your best bet. You can also look into NextPVR. Run that on your computer, input your M3U URL and try recording that way. Hopefully one of these app developers figures this out soon. Would be nice to schedule future recordings for these various IPTV services.
Hi, it’s about IPTV Extreme Pro. I used to record on it with no problems. But lately I can’t record, get an error that Java Files cannot find the file to download.
Hope you have a solution.
Thanks in advance
Is it possible to set up a Fire stick to record to the cloud somehow?
Area 51 wont load. They said they don’t support 3 party apps??
Can I use an external hard drive to record? Sorry for the noobish question …but I am an old fart noob just learning. ?
Hello,
Thanks for info on installing eternal tv on kodi, worked great !! I am using kodi 18.1 now and do not see the record options like what you described ?? I only get ..switch to channel – program info – channel guide – find similar – add to favorites – manage ….??? nothing inside each of those categories for recording either ?? Any idea ??
I really need to get this figured out to record live sports channels……Thanks
How can i record Voodoo IPTV? i did what your video said. but the serve port wasn’t recognized
Smarters iptv has a record option and is what most iptv downloads (apks) use. You have to long press the ok when the channel is selected and set your record duration. I use Guerrilla IPTV and it has that capability as well. One feature I hope shows up in the future, if it’s not on iptv extreme, is the ability to schedule a download. It sucks to get into a program (say a news expose’) and have to wait 3 hours in order to record the whole thing.
Good post Troy, always enjoy your site.
Hi. I use Smarters pro on my Shield, and every time I set a recording, it goes for one minute, says playback error, retries twice, then says recording complete. It records one minute every time. Doesn’t matter the channel or iptv service. What am I doing wrong? Am I missing a setting? Is it the directory?
Hi Darren you need a large capacity usb to add to the box storage as the internal storage isn’t large enough because video files need a huge amount of memory
Hey Troy,
I keep circling back to this article when Googling.
You tell how to do this, but not which services allow you to record/dvr?
I bought Players Klub based off one of your last articles. Can I dvr with players klub?
It works on Players Klub