Electronic Program Guide

EPG Preview on TV App

Flexible distribution

Program a channel once and distribute it to multiple destinations with multi-format support. Export your EPG schedule in popular formats to share with broadcasting partners — ensuring your EPG TV guide appears accurately across every platform.

Real-time updateable URLs

Say goodbye to manual edits. Muvi Playout’s EPG feature creates real-time updateable URLs that instantly refresh your EPG guide across TV platforms and apps. This keeps every EPG schedule accurate and in sync — saving hours of manual effort while ensuring viewers always see the latest program information.

Seamless sharing with IPTV providers

Downloading EPG files in XMLTV format is simple with Muvi Playout. As a reliable EPG Provider, Muvi lets you effortlessly share your EPG schedule with partner platforms or third-party TV guide services to ensure a smooth handoff of accurate listings. The result is a consistent and reliable EPG experience for your viewers across all devices.

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Excel/CSV export

Muvi Playout allows you to export your schedules as Excel/CSV files, ready for display on the web or integration with third-party TV guide websites. Your schedules become accessible and engaging across platforms.

Metadata enrichment

Add information such as program name, description, start time, and end time to the EPG to give viewers detailed channel information. This enriched data powers an accurate EPG guide, ensuring your audience always sees the right program at the right time.

Frequently Asked Questions

Muvi’s Electronic Program Guide (EPG) helps broadcasters and TV networks display and share their channel schedules in real time.

It lets you generate and download EPG files in formats like XMLTV URL, XMLTV file, CSV, and XLS, making it easy to publish program listings on websites, apps, or partner platforms.

Viewers can instantly see what’s playing now, what aired earlier, and what’s coming up next, ensuring a seamless and accurate viewing experience.

Muvi’s EPG helps broadcasters share their channel schedules clearly and accurately with viewers. It automatically displays real-time updates from the Playout scheduler, so any timing or content change is instantly reflected across your websites, apps, or partner platforms.
Broadcasters can also export their EPG data from Muvi Playout in standard formats such as XMLTV, CSV, or XLS for easy sharing with external platforms and program guides.
This ensures audiences always see the latest and most accurate program information, improving their viewing experience while reducing manual distribution effort.

Yes — the EPG supports industry-standard formats such as XMLTV (including XMLTV URL), CSV, and XLS, enabling sharing with third-party TV guide websites, and other applications.
Also, the real-time URL format ensures schedule data can be pushed/updated dynamically for integration with platforms that display EPG information.

Muvi’s Electronic Program Guide (EPG) stands out with real-time updateable URLs, multi-format export options (XMLTV, CSV, XLS), and seamless integration with Muvi Playout’s scheduling engine for one or more channels across days, weeks, or longer durations. Together, these capabilities make it a scalable and flexible choice for broadcasters and digital streaming platforms that need accurate, automated program scheduling and effortless distribution. Unlike most EPG providers, Muvi combines real-time updateable URLs, multi-format export (XMLTV, CSV, XLS), and direct integration with its own scheduling engine.

XMLTV is an open, standardized XML-based format used to describe TV program schedules. It structures data like program names, descriptions, start and end times, and channel identifiers in a way that any compatible platform or app can read and display.

EPG needs XMLTV because it acts as the universal language between your schedule and the platforms that display it. Without a standard format like XMLTV, every TV guide app, IPTV provider, or streaming platform would need a custom integration to read your schedule. With XMLTV, your EPG data can be exported once and consumed by any compatible third-party TV guide, STB, or media player — instantly and accurately.

Muvi Playout supports XMLTV export in both file and real-time URL formats, making it easy to share your schedule with partner platforms without any manual reformatting.

For FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV) channels, the EPG serves as the backbone of the viewer experience — it tells the audience what's playing, what's coming up next, and what aired earlier, just like a traditional TV guide.

When you build a FAST channel on Muvi Playout, your programming schedule is automatically reflected in the EPG. As your playout schedule updates, the EPG updates in real time too — no manual syncing needed. This schedule data can then be exported in XMLTV or other supported formats and shared with FAST distribution platforms and aggregators that require EPG feeds as part of their onboarding requirements.

A well-maintained EPG is critical for FAST channels because platforms like Samsung TV Plus, Pluto TV, and Plex use it to power their channel guides, making your content discoverable and professional-looking alongside established broadcasters.

Yes. Muvi Playout's EPG supports industry-standard formats — XMLTV URL, XMLTV file, CSV, and XLS — ensuring compatibility with a wide range of third-party platforms, TV guide services, IPTV providers, and media players.

The real-time updateable URL format is particularly useful for platforms that pull schedule data dynamically, as it ensures your listings stay accurate without requiring manual file uploads every time a change is made. Whether you're sharing your EPG with a distribution partner, an STB operator, or a third-party TV guide website, Muvi's EPG is built to integrate without friction.

A TV schedule is the underlying plan — the ordered list of programs, their timings, and their metadata, typically created and managed by a broadcaster or playout operator.

An EPG is how that schedule is delivered and displayed to the viewer. It takes the raw scheduling data and presents it as an interactive, on-screen program guide that viewers can browse on their TV, app, or device.

Think of it this way: the TV schedule lives in your playout system, while the EPG is what your audience actually sees and interacts with. Muvi Playout bridges the two automatically — your scheduling decisions are instantly reflected in the EPG, keeping both always in sync without any duplicate data entry.

Yes. Muvi Playout's EPG supports scheduling and display for both live streams and on-demand content within a linear channel format.

For live content, the EPG reflects your real-time broadcast — showing what is currently airing and what's coming up next. For on-demand content scheduled as part of a linear playout channel, the EPG treats each piece of content as a timed program slot, giving it the same structured, guide-style presentation that viewers expect from a traditional TV channel.

This makes Muvi Playout's EPG especially useful for broadcasters running hybrid channels — ones that mix live events with pre-recorded or on-demand programming — ensuring a consistent and professional viewer experience regardless of the content type.

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