We updated Stremio Web and Stremio v5 for Desktop, here’s what changed:
Player
- Progressive keyboard seeking, debounced so held keys stop overshooting
- Subtitles stay above the controls; no more over-adjusted positioning
- External subtitles no longer reload mid-playback
- Fixed double subtitles (mpv rendering disabled on load)
- Added transient subtitle offset for quick sync nudges
- Hold D for stats, tap D to toggle
- Virtual keyboard shortcuts work
- Update banner for desktop app hidden during playback
- Full casting support in the player
- New Custom playback speed, redesigned speed menu
Details & Library
- Addon dropdown stops jumping while scrolling
- Context-aware card navigation — card and “Details” go to the same place, play/dismiss no longer double-fire
- Episode rows got a play button; clicking an episode opens it instead of playing it
- Dropdowns scroll to the selected option once loaded
Settings
- Interface language names capitalized & Translations refreshed
Supporters
- Intro/Outro popup: no random appearances, ignores zero-length outros, closes on next episode
- Subtitle menu no longer stutters playback
- Empty stream list shows a Content settings hint for Supporters
- Fullscreen button stays right-aligned on unnamed streams
- Player profile gate fixed on refresh
- Downloads with unknown total size no longer break
App Wide:
- App no longer goes stale when unfocused
macOS app specific
- Fixed macOS player input stalls
- Improve Reconnection of interrupted HTTP streams
- Ignore transient mpv event errors
- Upgraded mpv to 0.41.0, libmpv2 to 6.0.0
- Improve video loading experience in player
- Improve local streaming server experience
- Fixed WebUI context menu handling
- WebView inspection enabled from the context menu
Windows app specific:
- URL parsed and sanitized before open::that
- Improve Reconnection of interrupted HTTP streams
- Fix issues with seeking keys making the app slower / app quitting
- Upgrade libmpv2 to 6.0.0
- Improve video loading experience in player
- Fixed WebUI context menu handling; WebView inspection from context menu
- Fix Ctrl+G WebUI shortcut not allowed
Stay tuned as we have more surprises for our users in 2026!