How to Use TV Garden

What TV Garden is

TV Garden is a directory of live TV channels grouped by country. It does not host or broadcast anything itself — it lists channels and opens a player pointed at a stream published elsewhere. That distinction matters when something stops working, so it is worth knowing from the start.

There is nothing to install and no account is required to watch. Signing in is optional and only affects account-specific features.

Quick start

1. Open the home page.
2. Pick a country from the flag grid, or type its name in the country search box.
3. Browse the channel list that appears for that country.
4. Click a channel to open its page and start the stream.
5. Unmute the player, then switch to fullscreen if you want.

Choosing a country

The home page shows every available country as a card with its flag and name. Clicking a card selects that country and loads its channels into the list without leaving the page.

Each country also has its own dedicated page at a permanent address — for example /countries/turkmenistan. Opening a country card in a new tab (middle-click, or Ctrl/Cmd-click) takes you straight there, which is the address to bookmark or share.

If you would rather search than scroll, use the Search for a country… box above the grid. It filters the country cards as you type.

Finding a channel

A country page opens with a summary of how many channels it carries, then the list itself. For countries with large listings only the first part of the list is rendered, with a button at the bottom to show the rest — this keeps big countries from taking a long time to appear.

Three controls sit above the list:

• Search channels… — filters by channel name across the country's whole list, not just the part currently shown.
• Status filters — All, Live, Offline and Unknown narrow the list by the last recorded status of each stream.
• Sort — A - Z or Z - A orders the list by name. Channels last seen working are grouped first either way.

Using the player

Selecting a channel opens its own page with the player at the top. Playback starts muted — browsers block sound on media that starts by itself, so this is deliberate rather than a fault. Use the unmute control to bring audio in.

Below the player you will find related channels, which is usually the fastest way to try something similar if the current one disappoints. The ← Back control returns you to where you came from.

Fullscreen and keyboard controls

The player has a fullscreen toggle. On a desktop browser these keyboard shortcuts also work while the player is on screen:

• Space — pause or resume
• F — enter or leave fullscreen
• M — mute or unmute
• → and ← — move 10 seconds forward or back, where the stream allows it
• Esc — leave fullscreen

Saving favorites

Channel cards carry a star control labelled Add to favorites. Selecting it keeps that channel in your Favorites list, reachable from the header on desktop and the bottom bar on mobile. Selecting it again removes the channel.

Favorites are stored in your own browser rather than on a server. They stay on the device and browser you saved them in, they do not follow you to another machine, and clearing your browser's site data for this site removes them.

Mobile and desktop differences

The site is the same on both, but the navigation differs. On desktop the links sit in the header. On a phone there is a fixed bar at the bottom with Home, Search, Favorites and Login.

Keyboard shortcuts are a desktop feature. On a phone, use the on-screen controls — and expect fullscreen to follow your device's rotation lock.

If a channel does not play

Because streams come from third-party sources, an individual channel can stop working without anything changing on this site. Before assuming a wider fault, try a second channel from the same country: if that one plays, the problem is with the first stream rather than your setup.

The troubleshooting guide works through the symptoms in order, from a blank player to audio without video.