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Life & fun · May 8, 2026

tltv – Federation protocol for 24/7 TV channels

I spent six years trying to build a tv channel server. rewrote it eight times. flask, fastapi, ffmpeg, gstreamer, named pipes. every version got more complicated and none of them worked right. turns out I was building the wrong thing. the thing I actually wanted was a protocol. so tltv is that. a channel is an ed25519 key pair. you sign your metadata with it. you serve hls video from wherever you want. your public key becomes a tltv:// address that anyone can tune into. relay nodes can re-serve your stream but they can't modify it. they verify signatures on everything. you can move…

tltv – Federation protocol for 24/7 TV channels launched on May 8, 2026 with 6 votes, #1,742 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

a federation protocol for open television channels.

generate an Ed25519 key pair. that's your channel. no signup, no platform, no permission needed. use your key to start broadcasting. signed metadata, standard HLS. open protocol, fully open source. your key and your stream become a single tltv:// address. the protocol handles discovery, federation, and relay betweenfrom timelooptv.org

In the maker’s words, at launch

I spent six years trying to build a tv channel server. rewrote it eight times. flask, fastapi, ffmpeg, gstreamer, named pipes. every version got more complicated and none of them worked right. turns out I was building the wrong thing. the thing I actually wanted was a protocol. so tltv is that. a channel is an…

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