Hi everyone V1.9.97 is here,

Changes:

• Reduced noisy non-fatal crash reports so Sentry quota is protected while real crashes still report.
• Hardened IPTV/TV page loading by normalizing legacy IPTV URLs and preventing bad guide/channel rows from crashing the app.
• Fixed plugin cloud sync invalidation so addon/plugin changes refresh more reliably. Thanks u/test01203.
• Improved cloud sync timing so local changes push/pull more reliably. Thanks u/silentbil.
• Improved AI subtitles. Thanks u/silentbil.
• Added full French translation and externalized more hardcoded UI strings. Thanks u/foXaCe.
• Improved website image loading, performance, and UI polish.

ARVIO Web has received a major upgrade.

You can now manage almost everything directly from the web app, including profile-specific settings, watchlists, IPTV group order, and more. This makes it much easier to configure ARVIO from a browser, especially when setting things up across multiple profiles.

A big thanks to Silentbil for maintaining the web app and putting in the work to keep improving it.

Website:
https://arvio.tv

Play Store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arvio.tv
The Play Store version may take up to 24 hours to show the latest update.

Download code: 8107785

Update is released very early because of some crash bugs.

Changelog

• Watchlist now opens much faster by showing local/cloud cached items first, syncing Trakt in the background, and avoiding slow per-item TMDB hydration before the page appears.
• Trakt watchlist loading now maps Trakt-provided TMDB ids/title/year immediately, then enriches posters and details after visible content is already on screen.
• Fixed a watchlist spinner loop caused by refreshing the page again on the first resume event.
• Improved the source selector scrolling and focus behavior, added source-list scroll indicators, and sorted sources by quality/size more predictably. u/test01203 u/The-cpu-max
• Restored the mobile Addons settings page so Stremio addons can be managed from phones/tablets.
• Improved Hebrew localization and RTL behavior. u/test01203
• Improved Telegram search behavior based on the user language. u/silentbil
• Fixed Telegram cache and RTL-related issues. u/silentbil
• Fixed plugin-feature build failures and related release workflow issues. u/silentbil
• Updated GitHub Actions verification so PR checks also run correctly for forked pull requests. u/silentbil
• Improved the ARVIO website landing page UX with theme toggle and scroll spy navigation. u/Bivek01 u/bivekm01
• Added and updated ARVIO website copy, including Telegram integration messaging.

Hey there, trying to make sure you guys are covered for the World Cup tonight xD.

ARVIO v1.9.95

This release focuses on making Live TV, EPG, playback startup, cloud sync, source selection, and large-library navigation feel much more reliable across TV and mobile.

Live TV, IPTV & EPG

• Fixed TV category navigation so large IPTV lists keep showing channels and mini-player content after switching categories.
• Fixed TV category context menus so long-press select opens reliably on remotes, with working hide/move actions.
• Removed the guide matching status strip from the TV page to reduce layout jumping while browsing.
• Improved paged TV guide rendering for very large playlists, including favorites-first startup and smoother category paging. Contributor: u/saidai-bhuvanesh.
• Improved XMLTV/EPG parsing reliability, playlist concurrency, memory use, and cache handling for large datasets. Contributor: u/saidai-bhuvanesh.
• Added faster EPG refresh and better guide recovery for provider groups with slightly different naming/spacing. Contributor: u/saidai-bhuvanesh.
• Added vertical quick-channel zap overlay with category navigation sidebar. Contributor: u/Himanth-reddy.
• Fixed TV trailer close behavior and IPTV settings redirection. Contributor: u/Himanth-reddy.
• Added MPEG-DASH DRM support for IPTV streams using Widevine and ClearKey. Contributor: u/Himanth-reddy.

Playback & Sources

• Reworked autoplay ranking so it picks the best visible/highest-quality source faster instead of waiting too long or choosing weak 720p options.
• Improved playback startup readiness to reduce black/loading screens and make manual source selection and autoplay more consistent.
• Tuned playback buffering based on device memory to improve stability on TV devices.
• Fixed Plex MKV compatibility cases that could show black screen/no audio on specific files.
• Kept the screen awake during playback to prevent TV screensaver interruptions.
• Improved source selector UI, focus state, scrolling, filename visibility, quality badges, and source grouping. Contributor: u/test01203.
• Added trailer playback in card mode and fixed trailer/background subtitle behavior. Contributor: u/silentbil.

Addons, Plugins & Anime Matching

• Improved FlixStreams/anime addon matching and fallback stream lookup for episode sources.
• Preserved local addons during cloud restore so cloud sync does not wipe local addon setup unexpectedly.
• Added sideload plugin system groundwork with external repo support. Contributor: u/test01203.
• Improved plugin prefixes and stream selector integration. Contributor: u/test01203.
• Added Telegram integration and APK split groundwork. Contributor: u/silentbil.

Cloud Sync, Profiles & Stability

• Fixed fresh-login profile restore so cloud profiles, addons, IPTV lists, and profile snapshots are pulled more reliably.
• Hardened account cloud sync, upload verification, conflict handling, and empty snapshot protection. Contributor: u/saidai-bhuvanesh.
• Added realtime/user-settings sync backend support for faster cross-device updates.
• Hardened crash-prone catalog and home sync paths.
• Improved background sync reliability and conflict-resolution audit work. Contributor: u/saidai-bhuvanesh.

Mobile, Home, Details & UI Polish

• Fixed mobile catalog pagination/constant row behavior and collection card sizing. Contributor: u/Himanth-reddy.
• Fixed portrait home skeleton aspect ratios and improved loading states. Contributor: u/Himanth-reddy.
• Improved watchlist loading/empty states on mobile and TV. Contributor: u/Himanth-reddy.
• Added a mobile watchlist header matching the settings style. Contributor: u/Himanth-reddy.
• Customized mobile details skeleton loaders. Contributor: u/Himanth-reddy.
• Fixed details-page metadata wrapping to match the home hero behavior.

Download code: 1164861

Links:
Site: https://arvio.tv/
PlayStore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arvio.tv
Github: https://github.com/ProdigyV21/ARVIO

This release focuses on making the TV/IPTV experience much faster and more reliable, while also improving metadata, playback, mobile polish, and app stability.

The TV feature is not intended to fully replace your core live TV apps, ARVIO is designed to combine all those features, but it is still far away from becoming the best in each discipline. Step by step they become better.

TV, IPTV, EPG, and catchup

• Reworked large IPTV list handling so 50k+ channel playlists load and navigate more smoothly.
• Added faster visible-first EPG loading, SQLite-backed EPG indexing, warmer guide caches, and improved guide matching.
• Added and refined support for multiple EPG sources per IPTV playlist.
• Improved catchup support with fullscreen guide browsing, archive-aware playback URLs, past guide history, and better seek/pause behavior.
• Fixed several IPTV category issues, including hidden category restore visibility and cleaner category behavior.
• Improved live TV playback startup, Stalker/Xtream handling, stream headers, buffering behavior, and source fallback behavior.
• Fixed TV guide back navigation and reduced slow fullscreen live-TV exit behavior.
• Improved TV channel logos, channel metadata, provider scoping, and guide navigation stability.

Playback and sources

• Improved startup playback retry/failover so bad first attempts can move to the next valid source more reliably.
• Avoided debrid side effects during stream prewarm, so searching no longer starts unwanted debrid downloads.
• Improved default audio selection, including a None option for users who need it.
• Improved source switching, mini-player/fullscreen transitions, and player error handling.

Metadata, ratings, and discovery

• Switched title metadata toward real IMDb ratings when available.
• Added IMDb-style ratings for episodes and improved rating hydration across home/details.
• Prefetched provider logos and IMDb metadata so focused cards show service badges faster.
• Fixed mobile catalog pagination and missing landscape logos.

Mobile, UI, and settings polish

• Added Chromecast support for the mobile player.
• Added Picture-in-Picture mode for touch devices.
• Redesigned the watchlist with separate Movies and Series rows.
• Added a Netflix-style mobile hero carousel and improved mobile layout/search spacing.
• Improved TV settings polish, input modal button visibility, accent/focus states, and launcher icon centering.
• Improved screen-timeout handling so the screen is kept on only during playback.

Stability, security, and cleanup

• Reduced noisy handled crash reports in Sentry.
• Hardened IPTV JSON loading against memory pressure and reduced guide memory churn.
• Added usage analytics tracking.
• Hardened auth email sending.
• Added pairing-token validation and replaced wildcard CORS with an origin allowlist.
• Included several regex, Gson TypeToken, and parsing cleanups to reduce memory and startup overhead.

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:
u/ProdigyV21, u/Himanth-reddy, u/chillpill244, u/silentbil, u/jonahmichael, u/EierKopZA, u/pjetrazz

Links:

Site: https://arvio.tv/
PlayStore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arvio.tv
Github: https://github.com/ProdigyV21/ARVIO

Due to TMDB issues the update is released earlier than expected.

Highlights

• Fixed cloud sync reliability so fresh local changes are pushed before cloud restore can overwrite them.
• Added missing cloud sync coverage for DNS, custom User-Agent, OLED background, focus border color, loading stats, TorrServer URL, and related profile settings.
• Home server tokens are now encrypted at rest locally while remaining restorable through cloud sync.
• Fixed TMDB/API gzip edge cases and metadata failures that caused missing posters, black detail backgrounds, and details page crashes.
• Fixed playback startup/autoplay behavior so autoplay starts the highest source first and manual source selection starts the selected source.
• Improved TV home and player UI: cleaner pause overlay metadata, better hero metadata layout, lower hero positioning, larger IMDb/service markers, and better visual grouping.
• Added support for multiple EPG links per IPTV playlist.
• Improved IPTV/home-server loading, continue watching artwork, mobile home-server audio track selection, custom User-Agent editing, and non-Trakt cloud/continue-watching sync.

Contributions in development are welcome.

Links:
https://github.com/ProdigyV21/ARVIO
https://discord.com/invite/bGBBGKFZVh
https://arvio.tv/

Download:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arvio.tv (will take at most 24h before PlayStore updates)
Download code: 7679277

Upcoming in 1.9.94:
- Catchup for live TV
- Profile settings UI upgrade
- Webapp improvements.

Hi everyone,

I am the developer of ARVIO. ARVIO is an open-source media hub for Android TV, Android phones, and tablets. It is built around a TV-first interface with remote navigation, but it also supports mobile and tablet layouts. The app does not host or provide media content. Users connect their own libraries, playlists, accounts, servers, and sources.

One of the bigger recent additions is home-server support. You can connect a user-owned Jellyfin server (or Emby/Plex) and ARVIO can show matching Jellyfin items as playable sources on movie and series details pages. The goal is to make Jellyfin libraries fit into the same browsing, search, continue-watching, and source-selection flow as the rest of the app.

Recent Jellyfin/home-server related additions:

• Connect user-owned Jellyfin servers from settings
• Show Jellyfin media as sources on matching movie and series details pages
• Support multiple connected home servers with custom labels
• Import home-server collections as ARVIO catalogs
• Improved source labels so it is clearer which server a source comes from
• Improved matching speed and autoplay behavior for home-server sources
• Better handling for movies, series, and episode matching

Other recent ARVIO improvements:

• Android TV, mobile, and tablet support
• Live tv playlist support with improved categories, EPG loading, VOD handling, and TV navigation
• Third-party addon support, including debrid and HTTP sources
• Profiles with optional cloud sync for settings, catalogs, watch state, IPTV state, and avatars
• Trakt watchlist and continue-watching improvements
• Better Android TV focus handling and smoother navigation
• Subtitle improvements, including language filtering, defaults, offset/style settings, and AI subtitles
• Search and catalog discovery improvements

Links:

Site arvio.tv (ARVIO is also available on google playstore).
GitHub: https://github.com/ProdigyV21/ARVIO
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/bGBBGKFZVh

ARVIO is still in a beginning phase you might encounter bugs, reports and requests are appreciated.

Yes, AI is used in developing ARVIO. If you have concerns about using AI-generated software, please do not use this application.

Hi everyone,

It has been about 2 months since the last post about ARVIO here, so I wanted to share the new developments.

ARVIO is an open-source & free media hub for Android TV, Android phones, and tablets. It is built around a TV-first interface, but also works on mobile and tablet with touch-friendly layouts. It includes remote navigation, profiles, watch progress, catalog browsing, search, Live TV support, home-server sources, and user-configured third-party addons, including debrid and HTTP addon support.

ARVIO does not host or provide media content. Users connect their own libraries, playlists, accounts, servers, and sources.

Recent highlights:

• Android TV, mobile, and tablet support
• Home-server source support for user-owned Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby libraries
• Home-server collections can appear as ARVIO catalogs
• Live TV improvements, including better categories, EPG loading, VOD handling, and TV navigation
• Third-party addon support, including debrid and HTTP sources
• Profiles with optional cloud sync for settings, catalogs, watch state, IPTV state, and avatars
• Trakt watchlist and continue-watching improvements
• Better Android TV focus handling and smoother navigation
• Subtitle improvements, including language filtering, defaults, offset/style settings, and AI subtitles
• Search and catalog discovery improvements

Links:

Site: arvio.tv
GitHub: https://github.com/ProdigyV21/ARVIO
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/bGBBGKFZVh

ARVIO is still in a beginning phase, you might encounter bugs. Reports and requests are appreciated.

Home server sources and catalogs

• Added Home Server source support for user-owned Jellyfin, Emby, and Plex libraries.
• Added Home Server catalog import so personal server collections can appear as ARVIO catalogs.
• Added distinct server labels in sources for users with multiple connected servers.
• Improved Home Server matching speed, source labels, playback readiness, and autoplay behavior.
• Improved Plex authentication discovery and matching reliability.

TV, IPTV, and VOD

• Improved full IPTV EPG backfill coverage so more channels receive guide data.
• Improved live TV category context actions, category reorder behavior, and left-navigation focus.
• Improved channel logo loading performance in the TV page.
• Fixed South Africa country labeling in TV categories.
• Improved IPTV VOD quality handling for episodes and sources.

Details, search, and navigation

• Added TMDB movie collections to details pages and moved collection rows above More Like This.
• Fixed duplicate "Collection" naming in details pages.
• Fixed several details-page spacing, cast-row, collection-row, and poster-clipping issues.
• Fixed details page cast focus jumps and vertical focus skips.
• Fixed search genre filters, search keyboard activation, and search/filter focus indicators.
• Improved home hero syncing so focused cards drive the displayed metadata more reliably.
• Improved focus border behavior and added focus-border color support.

Continue Watching, profiles, and cloud

• Added continue-watching card enhancements, including clearer season/episode progress badges.
• Fixed false "continue at" resume times on new or unwatched upcoming episodes.
• Refreshed Continue Watching after cloud restore so cloud login restores visible progress sooner.
• Added synced custom profile avatars and fixed avatar preservation during cloud sync.
• Fixed season unwatch and batch season-watch behavior to avoid unnecessary duplicate Trakt writes.

Player, subtitles, and accessibility

• Fixed remote selection for the next-episode prompt and routed up-next remote keys correctly.
• Added AI subtitles support and upgraded Media3/ExoPlayer to 1.9.0.
• Added AI subtitle settings on mobile.
• Fixed manual subtitle selection being overwritten by default subtitle rules.
• Fixed subtitle language filtering and subtitle sorting behavior.
• Added subtitle offset and subtitle style settings.
• Added spoiler blur support and Android TV 10 fallback behavior.
• Added trailer sound controls and improved trailer setting behavior on mobile.

Contributors

• EierkopZA: search focus/filter fixes, details collection visibility, continue-watching cards, poster episode badges, subtitle/trailer/spoiler settings, and TV layout fixes.
• EierkopZA: spoiler blur fallback, focus border color support, TV details poster clipping, search filter focus borders, and collection/watchlist focus fixes.
• Himanth Reddy: regex/performance optimization work, codebase optimization, README maintenance, and catalog/settings stability work.
• silentbil: AI subtitles, subtitle scoring/sorting, subtitle settings fixes, and mobile AI settings visibility.

Links:
https://github.com/ProdigyV21/ARVIO
https://discord.com/invite/bGBBGKFZVh
https://arvio.tv/

Download:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arvio.tv
Download code: 7233181