We were made aware by our users that the official OpenSubtitles addon stopped working friday morning. We investigated the issue, and our conclusion is that it was caused by a change in the OpenSubtitles API that we were not made aware of. We deployed a fix and everything should be working as expected again.
Category: Stremio News
Android TV Hotfix
We received many reports regarding playback issues from thursday’s release, today we made an update with the following changes: Reverted “Automatically switch to libVLC when Media3 (ExoPlayer) starts with audio only but no video frame was rendered” Downgraded Media3 (ExoPlayer) from 1.4.0-alpha02 to 1.3.1 For those that use Android TV devices that do not include…
Stremio Tech Update #31 – Stremio Android TV Updated
It’s been some time since our last tech update, as we were busy releasing the LG TV Stremio app. This update is all about Android TV, let’s see what changed: Updated Media3 (ExoPlayer) version to 1.4.0-alpha02 Fixed an issue where the watched time was not progressing properly in some cases Fixed an issue where audio…
Stremio is now available on LG TVs for models 2020+
We are happy to announce, that after a long review process, today we received this message: Dear Seller, This is LG Seller Lounge.Thank you for your inquiry. The Stremio app was approved today.Thank you for your patience. Stremio is now available in the LG TV (WebOS) App Store for all models from year 2020 onwards!(we currently have no plans of supporting older models) When…
Stremio Tech Update #30 – Mega Update
We are in the process of releasing new versions of all Stremio apps! Let’s see what changed. Stremio Web: Add watched indicator Add search history and search suggestions Add remote endpoint setting Translate official catalog names Added an M3U option for external player setting Replaced pagination on library for infinite scrolling Add mark as watched…
Stremio Tech Update #29 – Stremio Mobile Updated
We updated the Stremio Android Mobile app! Here’s what changed: Fixed a bug where subtitles would not be retrieved for all installed subtitle addons Fixed a bug where the “share” button would sometimes show on the metadata page, but pressing it would cause the app to crash Stay tuned as we have many surprises planned…
Stremio Tech Update #28 – Trakt Scrobbling, 2 Way Sync & More
We recently went through the logic of our official Trakt integration for Stremio to see how we can improve it for the users. Here’s what changed: Fixed a critical bug that would cause the Trakt integration to not send all Stremio playback events in some cases Greatly improved matching of movies/episodes from Cinemeta to Trakt…
Stremio Tech Update #27 – Samsung TV App Updated
We just released v1.2.1 of the Stremio Samsung TV app! (this update also includes the changes of v1.2.0, which was previously rolled back due to introducing a critical bug) Here’s what changed: Fixed an issue where the layer overlay was always visible when a subtitles failed to load Fixed an issue with the blue subtitles…
Addon Duplication in Community Catalog Resolved
For the past 24h we have been under attack by bots, which have been publishing duplicates of addons to the community catalog. During our investigation we found hundreds of duplicate addons that shouldn’t have been registered to the addon catalog. This event did not affect the stability of the service at all, the only issue…
Samsung TV App Rolled Back, Users Should Reinstall
On the 10th of January we released a new version of the Samsung TV app that caused a critical issue for the users, we immediately requested a rollback from Samsung. It took 5 days for the app to be reverted to the previous version, yet the troubles don’t end here, due to a mismatch of…