Searching for movies and shows in an IPTV player

Searching for movies and shows in an IPTV player works through a search function that searches your entire on-demand library by title, usually with results appearing as you type.

Why a title sometimes isn't found right away

Search looks through the on-demand data your playlist provider supplies. If a specific title isn't in your playlist, no search function will find it — that's a limitation of the content source, not the player.

Searching right after switching playlists

Right after switching playlist/source, it can take a moment before the full catalog is cached. Open the regular on-demand browser once before searching, so the index is fully built.

Searching within movies or shows separately

Most IPTV players let you choose to search only movies, only shows, or everything at once — handy when the same title happens to appear in both categories.