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Stremio Tech Update #20 – New Android TV Update, Cinemeta Fixes and a Gift

Posted on December 23, 2022 by Alex

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 that want to celebrate Christmas by watching some of the greatest Christmas movies ever made: we have created an addon just for that!

Here’s how to install the Christmas Movies addon:

→ if you already have Stremio installed on your current device, just clicking this link should install the addon
→ alternatively, search for “christmas” in the addons list of any Stremio app and install the “Christmas Movies” addon
→ Enjoy 🎁

Now, back to the updates:

Android TV: (v1.5.7)

  • Small UI adjustments in side menu and meta detail screen
  • Fix multiline subs not respecting RTL
  • Fix external player opening again after returning from it
  • Remove streaming server cache setting and disable it by default
  • Bump dependencies (leanback and exoplayer)
  • Add stream addon results navigation by individual addon
  • Show progress in video/episode cards
  • Fix not storing video in continue watching when starting in external player
  • Allow seeking to the end of video in libVLC
  • Show toast notification of API errors
  • Add context menu options for list items to add to lib or remove from lib
  • Change dismiss context menu action label
  • Show only distinct search suggestions
  • Add default player type setting
  • Add magnet link handling when opening from other apps or when pasting into search box
  • Fix libVLC not restoring state correctly after returning from sleep
  • Store all user selections in player screen (subtitles track, audio track, subs delay, playback speed, player override) and restore them when resuming the stream
  • Add setting to define a duration for when to show skips credits pop-up
  • Updated translations
  • Various small bug fixes/adjustments

Cinemeta official addon:

  • Fixed issue where runtime value was invalid for series (such as: “36S min”, “1 min”, “2 min”)
  • Fixed issue where posters may be black with just a logo
  • Fixed issue where an image from the movie / series would be used as poster instead
  • Fixed issue where episodes would not show for some more obscure series
  • Posters for the items of the official Cinemeta catalogs will be refreshed more frequently in order to ensure improved poster / background / logo choices
  • Fixed an issue where the episode updates would be stalled

Changes that were recently made to Cinemeta may take a few weeks to be applied as it is in the process of updating and older data needs to expire from the cache.

The Android TV app is in the process of auto-updating, if you wish to install now and not wait, you can do so by either checking the Play Store to see if there is an “Update” button available, or you can download it from our downloads page.

Stay tuned as we have many surprises planned for our users!

If you have any questions or comments about Stremio, feel free to ask them on one of our social channels:

Official Stremio Reddit – reddit.com/r/Stremio

Stremio Helpdesk – stremio.zendesk.com

Stremio Facebook – facebook.com/stremio

Stremio Twitter – twitter.com/stremio/

You may also enjoy chatting on the unofficial community of Stremio users:

Unofficial Stremio Addons Reddit – reddit.com/r/StremioAddons

19 thoughts on “Stremio Tech Update #20 – New Android TV Update, Cinemeta Fixes and a Gift”

  1. Elvis says:
    December 23, 2022 at 9:54 am

    Thank You so much for the Christmas present, Stremio TV is best addon for me.
    Have a wonderful Christmas and new year🙂

    Reply
    1. Z says:
      December 23, 2022 at 12:04 pm

      Wait what is Stremio TV?

      Reply
  2. Pedro Lima says:
    December 23, 2022 at 11:27 am

    Awesome, thanks for your work!

    Reply
  3. Dave Big Chief says:
    December 23, 2022 at 2:51 pm

    Android TV update is excellent, especially fixing the dismiss / delete issue with the Library. Thnx

    Reply
  4. Paulo says:
    December 23, 2022 at 4:12 pm

    I really like Stremio, it’s just a pity it takes so many weeks to expose PT-Brasil Subtitles in each Film.
    And they could improve the Audio and subtitles to be Synchronized when Chromecasting from Mobile to TV.

    Reply
  5. Enko says:
    December 23, 2022 at 6:38 pm

    Excellent ,thank you for existing

    Reply
  6. James says:
    December 23, 2022 at 7:02 pm

    Truly amazing, thank you for the hard work.
    Wish the following bug would also get fixed:
    The issue is that the internal player seems to struggle with videos that use multiple subtitle text on the screen, let’s say in anime when two people are talking and we have a subtitle at the top and one at the bottom. It seems that only one can be displayed at a time.

    Reply
    1. Alex says:
      December 23, 2022 at 9:32 pm

      Hi, this is an ExoPlayer bug, we know of it, and would also love it if ExoPlayer could find a solution! Once it is fixed in ExoPlayer it will be fixed in Stremio too.

      Reply
      1. Henri says:
        December 24, 2022 at 10:38 am

        I would like the update of exoplayer to take into account the reading of all formats of video and audio files. Thank you very much for this good work

        Reply
      2. Dan says:
        December 26, 2022 at 12:54 pm

        There is a PR on the exoplayer GitHub. They are trying to re introduce .ASS subtitle support but it’s low priority and has been stuck in development for years. In the meantime MPV renders subs correctly but you’ll often run into .264 10bit video issues as most android TV devices cannot hardware decide this format and lack the power to software decide.

        Reply
        1. Alex says:
          December 26, 2022 at 7:53 pm

          MPV is unfortunately the least mature video player for Android at this time.

          Reply
  7. Richard says:
    December 23, 2022 at 8:11 pm

    Great job guys. Keep up the good work really appreciate it

    Reply
  8. Ricky says:
    December 23, 2022 at 8:41 pm

    good work all, appreciate the updates. new update seems to have broken higher playback speeds on libvlc specifically. if you increase past 1.00 the audio doesn’t play anymore.

    Reply
  9. Paulo says:
    December 24, 2022 at 6:59 pm

    I would be very grateful if this new update was also for mobile phones and Android Box.

    Reply
  10. John says:
    December 24, 2022 at 8:11 pm

    Thank yous o much for this awesome Christmas present! I love the new features! It really polishes the app. It now remembers subtitle selection and delay which is a huge thing for me when pausing something to watch more later!

    There is 1 really really annoying thing still on Android TV:

    1. Bring up the seek bar while watching something.
    2. Scroll to somewhere else in playback position.
    3. While playback position bar is visible, idle for a bit while thinking.
    4. Decide to press the Back.utton to hide the play bar. If you ended up doing that WHILE the play bar has begun its hiding animation, your back-press quits the Stremio player immediately.

    There should be a cool down like this in the code:

    – on start animating “hide player bar”: this.hideTimestamp = time.now()
    – on back key press: if time.now() – this.hideTimestamp < 1.5 seconds: ignore the back press.

    This is how other players solve it to ignore that accident.

    I think it is the only real issue with Stremio in Android TV. 🙂 Close to perfect in all other ways! Awesome work!

    Reply
  11. Rafael Alexandre says:
    December 24, 2022 at 8:56 pm

    Why remove the cache option? I Hope they bring back the option in the next update

    Reply
    1. Alex says:
      December 25, 2022 at 7:42 am

      It was the #1 reason for app crashes due to devices running out of storage.

      We can only bring it back when we add support for caching on external storage for Android TV.

      Reply
  12. Vele says:
    December 27, 2022 at 3:09 am

    best free app ever

    Reply
  13. Frank says:
    December 27, 2022 at 7:28 am

    Stremio Is cool, I like so much

    Reply

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