The Stremio Community has requested a redesign for years. Some of our supporters with an artistic side have even taken upon themselves to attempt this endeavour — we are both humbled and grateful to be amongst such creative and inspiring minds and hearts. If you want to see some of the community proposals, you can find…
Category: Stremio News
Stremio Tech Update #22 – Stremio Web Updated
We updated Stremio Web! (this is a new product that we released in June, you can read more about the release here) Let’s see what’s new: Long press (mobile) on videos / episodes to see context menu (gives the following options: “Watch” and “Mark as watched”) Episode notifications (currently experimental) will show in the “Continue…
Fixed Episode Ordering
We were informed that some series have wrong episode ordering, which lead to a bad user experience for those that were attempting to find streaming sources for them. The issue comes from a disagreement between various metadata providers and streaming services as to what the default ordering should be. It has been decided that the…
Stremio vs CyFox – Security Announcement
TLDR; CyFox published a security issue report regarding the Stremio app on Windows, their report is invalid, yet some cyber security blogs are posting it as news Stremio is a security and privacy inclined project, and it has been so since the very start. We take our users’ security very seriously and always fix security…
Cinemeta Update – Now Filtering Out Movies that are in Theaters
We have released a change to Cinemeta that should filter out the majority of movies that are currently running in theaters, these movies will no longer be visible in any of the official catalogs. We did this in order to provide a better user experience, as movies that are currently in cinema should not be…
Stremio Android TV Hotfix
We just released Stremio Android TV v1.5.10 with the following changes: Fixed allowing to install app on external drive Fixed failing to play streams which require custom request headers Fixed crash when device does not support DisplayMode API Fixed crash when duplicate subtitles are returned by addons Fixed crash due to NPE exceptions Fixed a…
Stremio Desktop Hotfix for MacOS High Sierra, Mojave and Catalina
We have been receiving reports that the new release of Stremio v4.4.160 would crash on app start for MacOS High Sierra, Mojave and Catalina. We identified that the issue comes from a SSL library which stopped support for these MacOS versions, and we issued a hotfix today. If you are having issues starting Stremio Desktop…
Stremio Tech Update #21 – Stremio Web Release, Android TV Update, Stremio on iPhone and More
It’s been a long time since the last update again, but this time it’s another big one! So big in fact, that we had to include a table of contents:– What is Stremio Web and how to use it– Android TV v1.5.8 Release– Stremio Desktop v4.4.160 Release What is Stremio Web and how to use…
Stremio Tech Update #20 – New Android TV Update, Cinemeta Fixes and a Gift
Happy Holidays to all the Stremio cats out there! As we are nearing the end of 2022, we prepared a (highly anticipated) Android TV release and have worked hard on improving the Cinemeta official addon for an even better user experience, in all apps. So let’s see what changed, but first… A gift for those…
Cinemeta Updater Fixes
We have recently investigated an issue where the Cinemeta official addon would not update series episodes on time. We believe we have found the issue and fixed it on our servers! Expect improvements in this regard within the following days. Stay tuned as we have many surprises planned for our users! If you have any…