Tutorials

Guides and how-tos

Installing it, setting it up, using it, and fixing it when something goes wrong.

Getting started

Before you start

Two things are needed, and only one of them comes from us.

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Installing on a phone or tablet

From Google Play where it is available, or the APK straight from this site.

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Installing on Android TV or a TV box

From the store on the TV itself, or by sideloading the APK on a box that has no store.

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Installing on a Fire TV Stick

Fire TV has no VERINZO in its store, so it is installed with Downloader — Amazon's own app, from Amazon's own store.

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Your first launch: MAC address and device key

The first time the app opens it registers the device and shows the two things you need on this site.

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The free trial

New devices start on a trial at first launch, so the player can be tested with your own playlist before anything is paid for.

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Activating your device

Two values from the app, entered once on this site.

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Using the app

Adding an M3U playlist

One link from your provider, pasted once.

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Using the app

Adding an Xtream Codes account

Three values instead of one link — and usually a better result.

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Using the app

Watching live TV

Where the channels are, and the two ways to browse them.

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Using the app

Movies and series

On-demand content, and why some playlists have none.

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Using the app

The TV guide

What is on now and next, when your playlist supplies it.

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Using the app

Catch-up

Watching something that has already been on — when your provider keeps it.

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Using the app

Locking the player with a PIN

A PIN on the player, and on the playlists you do not want changed.

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Using the app

Using more than one device

Each activation covers one device, identified by its MAC address.

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Using the app

Using a VPN with the player

The app can hold OpenVPN profiles, which OpenVPN Connect then runs.

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Fixing problems

When the app will not install

Almost always a permission the device has not been given yet.

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Fixing problems

When activation will not work

What each activation refusal means, and which one you are looking at.

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Fixing problems

When a playlist will not load

The link, the login, or the provider — in that order of likelihood.

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Fixing problems

Buffering, freezing, and channels that will not open

Almost always the connection or the provider — and there is a quick way to tell which.

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Fixing problems

Every error message, and what to do

Every message the app or the server puts on screen, what it means, and the fix.

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Account and billing

Renewing

Buy the renewal, and the app picks it up on its own.

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Account and billing

Refunds

Fourteen days if the activation has not been used, and always when we got the charge wrong.

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Account and billing

Your data, and deleting it

What is kept, why, and how to have it erased.

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Account and billing

Getting hold of a person

What to have ready so it takes one message instead of four.

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Need a hand?

Send us a message and tell us which step you are on — it saves a round of questions.