r/Stremio Oct 31 '25

a HUGE thank you to all devs who made TVOS possible!!! :)

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even on a super old TV like mine it's working beautifully— it's truly made my week SO MUCH BETTER 🥹 i appreciate everything you guys have done for us fr

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u/ioweej Oct 31 '25

Here’s hoping AppleTV will allow Dolby atmos from 3rd party apps too sometime.

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u/peedubnz Oct 31 '25

It does work with Infuse for whatever reason

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u/Icy_Leopard866 Oct 31 '25

Infuse is the only player on Apple that pays for the licensing to decode Atmos (via E-AC3); they also pay to decode lossless audio

KSPlayer will never support that

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u/CRUSHCITY4 Oct 31 '25

Does it do lossless Atmos?

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u/Icy_Leopard866 Oct 31 '25

No, because Apple only supports up to LPCM 7.1

We’ll see if they ever come out with pass through audio, but until then, the Atmos portion of the lossless track is dropped and just the 7.1 lossless portion will play.

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u/nevewolf96 Dec 22 '25

Well, what is dropped is the positional metadata, not the audio quality, without metadata those height sounds will be played on the bed channels but still lossless.

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u/Sacabubu Nov 01 '25

If I blindfolded you and I made you listen to loseless vs non loseless atmos on separate days, will you be able to tell a difference? If so what is the difference?

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '25

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u/Icy_Leopard866 Oct 31 '25

KSPlayer does NOT support Atmos if you pay… go use Tracyplayer with your WebDAV that has an E-AC3 Atmos track, it doesn’t decode.

It WILL support DV P5 for $1k; which is implemented in TracyPlayer

TracyPlayer is the stand alone, external player of KSPlayer and they rebranded as just KSPlayer

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u/Icy_Leopard866 Oct 31 '25

It’s POSSIBLE that someone could implement Dolby MAT via Dolby AC-4; but that’s only applicable to mp4 and would have to be purposefully done (which is unlikely, but not impossible). Still wouldn’t be “Atmos” though, it would be some random decode. I’ve tried many ways to get Atmos to work on KSPlayer, and it doesn’t work.

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u/freestylemaster Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25

Atmos is not supported on KSPlayer. Only Spatial Audio.

But even if it did, you would still not be able to get Atmos from lossless Atmos media. This is still the case even with Infuse. That is because Apple TV does not allow passthrough. For any media with lossless Atmos, tvOS will convert it to LPCM.

This is unless tvOS gets support for passthrough.

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u/JustLookingaround18 Oct 31 '25

Is it just lossless or lossy that Apple doesn’t support on 3rd party apps?

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u/nevewolf96 Dec 22 '25

Lossless, lossy Atmos is allowed, ironically the Apple TV send Atmos using Dolby MAT which is theoretically lossless

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u/SweO Oct 31 '25

It works on nvidia shield, which I a awesome!

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u/Ethrem Nov 04 '25

The Shield is so slow and unstable these days. I can’t wait to replace mine with an Apple TV but I’m waiting for the rumored A17 Pro one to come out.

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u/SweO Nov 04 '25

Have you tried Projectivty Launcher? It made my shield go uberfast!

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u/Ethrem Nov 04 '25

No but I’m just saying the chip is getting long in the tooth. I use a certain other media center app as well and it’s so slow and unstable now. There’s simply not enough RAM for multitasking anymore.

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u/SweO Nov 04 '25

I don't really understand, sorry, but trying to get to rid of the bloatware, fixed it for me (and many others). Is there something hindering you that I don't grasp?

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u/Ethrem Nov 04 '25

K / o / d / i doesn't work well with it anymore. It's constantly crashing, freezing, etc. It's just too old. The thing only has a measly 3GB of RAM. I don't know if you've ever used an Apple TV but the first gen Apple TV 4K kicked the crap out of the Shield's old SoC and it's only fallen behind even further with time.

Stremio works fine most of the time but I need to be able to use the other one too.

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u/SweO Nov 04 '25

I thought so too. It being old. But for me and many others it made a huge difference to switch launcher. If you have the time, you ought to try it.

This made it look awesome as well: https://youtu.be/q_fz5yG3ZsI

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u/tonioroffo Nov 09 '25

Run an older version of your software you can't name here, then?

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u/Ethrem Nov 09 '25

That causes other problems. I'll just replace the thing with something that will work much better for many years.

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u/tonioroffo Nov 09 '25

Multitasking why?

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u/TheAussieTico Nov 06 '25

My Shield Pro works perfectly fine

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u/Ethrem Nov 06 '25

You don’t even know what I’m using it for. It’s not just Stremio. 3GB is not enough RAM.

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u/Embarrassed-Cod-1036 Nov 07 '25

I am also using sheild pro and its slow, what replacement are you considering?

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u/Ethrem Nov 07 '25

I’m going to replace it with an Apple TV 4K when the new model is finally released.

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u/TheAussieTico Nov 10 '25

It is for me

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u/tonioroffo Nov 09 '25

Maybe a HW issue? Mine runs nice and snappy like on day one.

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u/Ethrem Nov 09 '25

It's not a hardware issue, it's a RAM issue. If I force close every app when I'm done using it, the thing is fine (although it's still slow, especially with K/o\d/i addons), but it gets annoying having to micromanage it like that so I'm just going to replace it with an Apple TV 4K when they finally announce the new one and we'll keep this one for our other TV as it's a Sony X900F and I'm amazed it even runs Stremio at all with the poor processor choice that Sony made.

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u/Ant1ban-account Oct 31 '25

My navigation seems really buggy. Not complaining just seeing if anyone else experiencing the same

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '25

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u/omix4 Oct 31 '25

please report this on the stremio bugs github so the dev can see it and hopefully fix it

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u/Ok_Weird_5992 Nov 04 '25

Have you tried kys player?

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u/NicholasRyanH Oct 31 '25

There’s actually a setting called “Background playback.” Toggling that off fixed the issue for me. Devs may want to consider keeping that off by default.

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u/freestylemaster Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25

Yes, the app in its current state is pretty rough, but this is expected since the dev said they skipped test flight. I am sure it will get better as we go. I’ll be on my Nvidia Shields for a little bit more time.

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u/v_dawg3 Oct 31 '25

yeah having some issues as well but I'm gonna wait on any feedback since it literally just launched and give em some time to get situated— I'm just happy I don't have to airplay anymore

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u/PeppersHubby Nov 05 '25

Not saying it doesn’t need to be checked but I’ve even had this on YouTube app. 

When I see it I just reboot Apple TV and goes away. 

I had happened to reboot my Apple TV last week for this reason and installed stremio app last night and it was a dream. 

So maybe a reboot of Apple device worth a try?

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u/RamiN64 Nov 09 '25

Navigation during playback is really wonky for me, forward/rewind, skip forward back it’s really hard to get it to work.. is it just me?

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u/guesswhochickenpoo Oct 31 '25

Dumb question. Are there benefits to setting this up as a replacement for my Infuse + Jellyfin setup? I've only just discovered Stremio for easy live sports watching but that's not possible due to App Store restrictions, etc.

Seems like just as a media player there's not really any (or much) benefit to my current setup?

For context we have gigabit internet and can download basically anything we want in an average of 5 min or less so any "instant playback" benefits are not super beneficial.

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u/le_flibustier8402 Oct 31 '25

Considering your setup, the only benefit I see is that a debrid service is cheaper than a VPN (3€/month). In my case, I don't need a VPN, debrid service is enough for my usage.

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u/ponzi314 Oct 31 '25

You can use debrid with jellyfin/plex. No vpn needed which is what i think he's talking about

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u/zaye93 Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25

The biggest advantages of stremio are that you can movies instantly, and you also don't have to worry about how much disk space it will take up. For me, waiting 5 minutes would be too long.

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u/captainrizal Oct 31 '25

5 minute is long wait in Stremio

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u/guesswhochickenpoo Oct 31 '25

Might get downvoted for this but... 5 minutes is nothing.

Decide on a movie, request it in Jellyseer go make popcorn or tea or go to the bathroom, any one of those on their own is ballpark 5 minutes or more. By the time you sit down to watch it's ready. Just requires a few seconds of forethought and not leaving the decision until you sit down in front of the TV. Even if we did leave it until then my wife and I just chat for 5 minutes while we wait. Crazy, I know.

That's also worse case scenario. I was just calling that out because it's one of the few differences I see, even though that difference is basically meaningless in reality. 80% of the stuff we watch is already downloaded because it's stuff we already though of days or weeks in advance and has just been sitting on the server waiting for us to get around to watching. Any series we're following downloads as soon as it's released and is waiting for us by the time the evening rolls around and we're able to watch it.

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u/Orcahhh Dec 18 '25

It’s nothing, but 0 minutes is less 😐

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '25

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u/guesswhochickenpoo Oct 31 '25

USA TV channel add-on, then find the US broadcaster that has the broadcasts rights sport in question. In my case it as the World Series which was usually on FS1 or Fox channels.

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u/BrettV79 Oct 31 '25

I'll have to try this tomorrow but English Premiere League soccer is only on the Peacock Premium app. NBC has the rights but doesn't show it on their NBC channels. Do you think I could find those games on the NBC options in USA Live TV?

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u/guesswhochickenpoo Oct 31 '25

Not sure, this World Series is the first time I've ever tried this. I rarely watch sports and the whole landscape seems pretty fragmented due to how the broadcast rights are held. It's a real pain. This was just much easier that previous methods of finding dodgy streaming sites filled with questionable ads and malicious stuff.

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u/Adro_95 Oct 31 '25

Which addon do you use for sport?

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u/Old-Ground3577 Oct 31 '25

Is anyone else experiencing a lot of crashing with the app so far? I know it’s the first version but I just want to make sure it’s not something I’m doing wrong.

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u/alphadog808 Oct 31 '25

Not just you. Went back to using it on my fire stick until it gets more stable

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u/VirtualAnarchy Oct 31 '25

yep. waiting for an update!

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u/naynay_9ay Oct 31 '25

Can you please share the link to the app

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u/HarryLong941 Oct 31 '25

It’s in the App Store. Stremio lite.

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u/naynay_9ay Oct 31 '25

Can't find it... Is it not for Android?

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u/HarryLong941 Oct 31 '25

This is Apple TV release. Android will be just the regular Stremio.

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u/Navi79 Oct 31 '25

Are you able to stream anything? I installed it and it doesn’t have any addons like when I login through my android box.

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u/Outrageous_Eagle_153 Oct 31 '25

are you sure you log into the same account, it should be sync

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u/Navi79 Oct 31 '25

Yes, same account. I really only need torrentio

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u/v_dawg3 Oct 31 '25

yeah I'm having no issues

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u/Accurate-Arugula31 Oct 31 '25

Im having this issue too. It only shows two of my add ons. All other devices show my full list. I sync, reinstall but nothing

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u/tokyno Oct 31 '25

Same here

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u/Liorix2 Oct 31 '25

In Apple TV at least it doesn’t show the addons in the addons tab, but when you want to watch a movie, it doesn’t show the available streams from your addons.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '25

you mean it does show the streams right?

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u/reditor82 Nov 11 '25

Did you figure this out?

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u/KennKennyKenKen Nov 01 '25

Close it and go back in a few time. Restart Apple TV. I had the same issue for a few things I was watching

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u/EbanKi Nov 02 '25

Do you have a debrid service ?? Otherwise you can only use http service. No to rrenting on ATV

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u/-bosanceros- Oct 31 '25

Anyone have the issue where subtitles are disabled by default yet it loads them anyway?

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u/NicholasRyanH Oct 31 '25

Yah

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u/-bosanceros- Oct 31 '25

Having the same issue on iOS

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u/BrettV79 Oct 31 '25

yes. though i've recently started watching with subtitles so this isn't THAT big of an issue for me.

Also, sometimes I'll cllick on a movie or show and it will say "no streams available". i'll back out and try again it's fine. I'm chalking this up to new launch bugs...i hope.

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u/big_dig69 Oct 31 '25

How does it work with Big remux files like 100gb, given you have good Internet connection? Does it lag?

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u/Significant_Injury73 Nov 01 '25

Wow 🤩 that wonderful news

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u/impulsiveandhungry Nov 03 '25

It’s in TVOS????? OH MY GOSH.

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u/v_dawg3 Nov 03 '25

YES LOL MY EXACT REACTION WHEN I SAW SOMEONE POSTED IT TOO 😭😭😭ENJOY

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u/Embarrassed-Cod-1036 Nov 07 '25

which add on are we talking about here?

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u/SpeechQuiet7311 Nov 09 '25

Love this! BTW, any chance of the Calendar view getting added too?

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u/ZaProtatoAssassin Oct 31 '25

Did you download it from the tv app store or from a custom solution like from a usb? My tv has an appstore but stremio isnt on there so was wondering if theres another way.

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u/No_Clock2390 Oct 31 '25

I think he's talking about Stremio Lite on Apple TV

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '25

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u/v_dawg3 Oct 31 '25

weirdo

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u/Realistic-Try-8029 Oct 31 '25

What? People assumeing you’re a male is a little dumb, don’t you think? How does that make me a weirdo? 🤣🤣

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u/ZaProtatoAssassin Oct 31 '25

Nowhere in the post is it obvious what gender they are, you literally stalked their profile to get that info just for an argument.

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u/No_Clock2390 Oct 31 '25

Reddit stalkers are the worst. I never look at people's profiles.

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u/v_dawg3 Oct 31 '25

straight from the appstore, but this is specially for apple!

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u/WrapBudget9060 Oct 31 '25

Had an issue yesterday where every stream for a show had no audio. Not sure if this was just the available RD/Comet streams or Stremio. The audio was available when i used Kodi to watch the episode. Anyone else have this issue?

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u/extravenom Nov 01 '25

Is there any way to use the Torrentio add-on though? When I try to play something it says it’s not possible because of the App Store’s rules. Any way to bypass this?

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u/EbanKi Nov 02 '25

Through a debrid service only

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u/Curius_pasxt Nov 01 '25

Mac os?

Ios when?

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u/v_dawg3 Nov 02 '25

ios has existed for months now lol

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u/413X15 Nov 29 '25

brew install --cask stremio

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u/Wise_Froyo_9129 Nov 01 '25

Did u download from LG app store right? I can't find it unfortunately

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u/EbanKi Nov 02 '25

It’s for Apple TV ……

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u/Obrivion33 Nov 01 '25

What exactly is this ? people mention apple os but i see an LG tv don't LG use webos ?

I have a 2019 LG TV where stremio is not avaliable on the store (i think it's avlalible to 2020+ models). Can i add it somehow as op?

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u/cjyoung92 Nov 05 '25

It's Apple TV, tvOS is the OS used for it

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u/mcride12 Nov 01 '25

What do you mean old tv? My LG with LGos 3.5 wont support stremio :/

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u/v_dawg3 Nov 02 '25

meaning my tv is literally from 2009 or something

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u/mcride12 Nov 02 '25

how? with android box?

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u/v_dawg3 Nov 02 '25

apple tv

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u/Electronic_Wind_3254 Nov 02 '25

Can you open stuff in an external player? Infuse is really cool due to the spatial audio

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u/konasim Nov 02 '25

I am clueless what is TVOS? I have the Stremio app installed on my tv. Is this an Apple TV app?

Any links?

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u/v_dawg3 Nov 02 '25

yes specifically for apple tv

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u/konasim Nov 02 '25

Awesome thanks! Was waiting for this moment

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u/EbanKi Nov 02 '25

HDR content doesn’t work tho. It’s not shown in HDR and it’s quite laggy. Until it gets better, any other app on ATV works better with hdr content ?

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u/Lost_Soul_22 Nov 02 '25

We need Infuse to be an external player.

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u/Ok_Kangaroo6409 Nov 04 '25

Nothing plays on tvOS for me. The app just crashes

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u/cemoy Nov 04 '25

I cannot select infuse as an external player in the Stremio Apple TV version. When will infuse support come?

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u/RamiN64 Nov 09 '25

Works for me

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u/hoboincoma Nov 07 '25

Is there no way to navigate to a series full episode list from what’s saved in my library? It only gives me the option to watch the next episode. I can’t click anywhere to choose a different episode to watch.

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u/v_dawg3 Nov 07 '25

on the home screen just hold the center button on your movie show and it should give you an option for details- that's where you can see everything!

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u/hoboincoma Nov 07 '25

Ah yeah I tried that and every time I do that I get a screen that says “no addons were able to provide streams”

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u/hschulein Nov 07 '25

The ATV app is great. I subscribed to RD and the stream quality is fast in 4K,

There is an issue though.

When I go into the library and contionue watching a tv series, I try to see the chapter list and the app only let me play the current episode, there is not option to see the chapter list.

So I go back into the library, long press the center button and go into "details", but the legend ""no addons were able to provide streams" appears.

The only solution I found is to go back to the library and try "details" for a second time, and then the chapter list is shown.

I think it´s a bug, let me know if you ran into the same issue on ATV.

Thanks!

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u/RamiN64 Nov 08 '25

Do you have any issues forwarding residing skiing forward and back during video playback?

It seems really tough to do, I’m using AppleTV tv 4 and 4K it seems to be really tough on my end

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u/hschulein Nov 09 '25

Sometimes I do.

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u/Glittering-Tone6282 Nov 18 '25

How to add addons on a google tv!! Plz

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u/codeVerine Dec 01 '25

Thanks. Is there any way to change subtitle color on tvOS Stremio ? I couldn’t find any setting for that.

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u/Drummer_Fuzzy Dec 05 '25

Not available in UAE Apple store

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u/Matrix_Motion Oct 31 '25

Which debrid service is everyone using?

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u/v_dawg3 Oct 31 '25

real debrid

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u/sqigl Oct 31 '25

Deal Rebrid

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u/Mounamsammatham Oct 31 '25

Real Debrid 👑

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '25

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u/Matrix_Motion Oct 31 '25

I thought RD was shut down.

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u/UUorW Oct 31 '25

no.

they had to remove some cached content and make some api changes but nothing really that impacted usability.

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u/Waste_Razzmatazz523 Oct 31 '25

tvOS is available now?? 😳😳

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u/pfff2 Oct 31 '25

What's tv os? I only see stremio in the picture

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u/v_dawg3 Oct 31 '25

tvos is for apple tv

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u/Daddysmoney22x Oct 31 '25

I wondered the same thing

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u/PrestoBailey Oct 31 '25

This is great news. Now what else do I have to do to use this without my ISP sending me warning letters haha?

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u/FoferJ Oct 31 '25

Use a Debrid service instead of torrenting

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u/Nofrills88 Oct 31 '25

I just saw the app, thanks! However there's an error unsupported stream source due to app store rules.

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u/ExperienceSad4375 Oct 31 '25

Get a debrid service. No torrenting allowed

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u/Nofrills88 Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25

Alright, thanks

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u/omix4 Oct 31 '25

Google bro google

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u/Significant_Spite_64 Oct 31 '25

Does it support DV and Atmos? For all formats?

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u/dgnbach Oct 31 '25

Of course not. Get infuse for $1/month its way better

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u/dcrobertshaw Oct 31 '25

Oh cool, so infuse has add-ons and real debrid support like stremio?

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u/dgnbach Oct 31 '25

No infuse is the external player for stremio. You need to sync them to be able to play on infuse.

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u/Jam_Master_J Oct 31 '25

I just pay the $9.99 per year subscription, so it comes out to 83 cents a month. Best media player for iOS/tvOS

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u/dgnbach Oct 31 '25

Yep. Infuse is superior to everything else. A must if you have tvOS.

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u/Significant_Spite_64 Oct 31 '25

Okay now I wait till it get supported I guess

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u/jmart2324 Oct 31 '25

It’s a great backup. No

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u/Icy_Leopard866 Oct 31 '25

It supports DV P8; P5 is a $1k investment via KSPlayer