At Stremio we pride ourselves in working with streaming (as the name suggests), so today we present to you MANY new streaming capabilities.
As of right now these have only been implemented in Stremio v5 for desktop with plans on gradually releasing it to other platforms too.
Note: All these new streaming capabilities are still experimental!
Let’s take a dive into the new streaming capabilities:
– NZB files: Usenet automated archive unpacking support, multiple NNTP server support
– FTP: you can also stream from FTP(S) now; FTP(S) links can be used for both “stream.url” as well as RAR/ZIP/etc links
– RAR files (with multi-volume support)
– ZIP files (with multi-volume support)
– 7Zip files (with multi-volume support)
– TGZ (TAR.GZ) files (with multi-volume support)
– TAR files
The Stremio Addon SDK – Stream Object documentation has been updated to explain the use of these new features by community addon developers. It is important to read them to understand the new capabilities and their (current) limitations.
Fun fact: While we were implementing these new streaming capabilities, we also played around with IRC Bot and DC++ Bot video streaming. While some success was achieved with these methods also, they did not make it into this release and we are uncertain (at this point) if they will ever be added to the app or not in a future update.
This update is part of the Stremio November Mega Update.
Stay tuned as we have many more surprises for our users in 2025!