jvonscheidt

jvonscheidt is an independent software publisher distributing open source tools through GitHub, with a catalog currently consisting of a single focused utility: m3u-viewer, a fast terminal-based viewer designed for working with large M3U playlist files. M3U is a widely adopted plain-text format used to describe ordered lists of media, and it appears across many domains, including IPTV channel lineups, internet radio directories, and local music or video collections managed by players such as VLC or mpv. As these playlists grow—IPTV lists in particular can contain thousands of entries spanning multiple countries, categories, and languages—they become difficult to inspect with ordinary text editors, which may load slowly, lack structure-aware display, or offer no convenient way to browse channel names and stream URLs. m3u-viewer addresses this by bringing playlist inspection directly into the terminal, an environment favored by system administrators, developers, and power users who already work in command-line shells, remote SSH sessions, or headless server environments where graphical applications are unavailable or impractical. A terminal-first tool of this kind typically emphasizes speed, low resource consumption, and keyboard-driven navigation, allowing users to scroll, search, and review entries quickly even when the underlying file is very large. Typical use cases include auditing IPTV subscriptions before importing them into a media player, verifying that stream links and metadata are correctly formatted, comparing or cleaning up playlist exports, and quickly locating a specific station or channel without launching a full media application. As a small, single-purpose utility hosted on GitHub, m3u-viewer reflects the classic open source pattern of solving one narrow problem well, making it a practical addition to the toolkit of anyone who regularly maintains or troubleshoots M3U-based media collections.