The irritation
Most IPTV software made navigating a large channel list feel like database work. I wanted the guide to behave like a purpose-built television product.
ProductReleasedCurrent
JBigs.tv
A Windows IPTV player built to make large channel libraries feel fast, legible, and at home on a television.
- Current state
- Released — Current
- Jack’s role
- Product design, Desktop engineering, Media systems, Release operations
- Find it in the workshop
- Broadcast & Products · Broadcast wall
Built because…
The real build story.
What I built
I built a signed Electron application with React interfaces, multiple streaming paths, licensing, updates, and Cloudflare-backed account services.
The hard part
Playback is never one problem: HLS, MPEG-TS, codec support, process boundaries, remote-friendly input, packaging, and recovery all have to cooperate.
Under the casing
Proof, not decoration.
Build evidence03 items
- HLS and MPEG-TS playback paths backed by FFmpeg tooling
- Signed Windows releases with licensing and application updates
- A remote-friendly guide designed around television-scale browsing
- Electron
- React
- TypeScript
- HLS
- MPEG-TS
- FFmpeg
- Cloudflare D1
- Cloudflare R2
Scope of work
What I owned.
- Product design
- Desktop engineering
- Media systems
- Release operations
No victory-lap math
Outcome and lesson.
Where it landed
JBigs TV is a released Windows product with a real installation, update, licensing, and distribution path rather than a browser-only demo.
What stayed
Desktop media software rewards defensive engineering. The graceful failure states around playback and updates matter as much as the happy path.
This project has a physical address.
In the playable workshop, JBigs.tv lives in the Broadcast & Products as a broadcast wall. You can inspect it without unlocking anything.