r/Stremio

Hey everyone,

I’m having a weird issue with my Sony Bravia 85-inch TV. After playing a video on Stremio, YouTube only plays in about a quarter of the screen. The rest of the screen is just black.

Before Stremio: YouTube works normally, full screen

After Stremio: YouTube stuck in small corner, can’t resize to full screen

Have to restart the tv eveytime this happens to fix it.

Has anyone experienced this before? Any solutions?

Thanks in advance!

I don't know if they vibecoded it and didn't test it well or what, but every episode I play seems to slow down mid-way through and I need to reset. This wasn't an issue before. On Mint Mate here. Maybe focus on reliability and smoothness/speed over pretty new features.

Another note, when I tried to update on my main computer running debian, it requested new permissions for access to my Downloads folder. I decided to uninstall the program on that machine instead. Why does it need permissions for my Downloads folder? Overall unhappy with the new update but the app has been wonderfully useful in the past so I don't want to sound too overly critical.

Stremio has been working really well for almost a year, but the new update made it borderline unusable. At the end of an episode (sometimes I'd click on the next episode transition, sometimes I'd try to exist the player), the software completely freezes and I'd have to end the process through a system monitor app just for it to close.

Most times the next episode would play the audio and subtitles, but a completely black screen and the player is stuck on --:--:--. I wouldn't be able to click on anything in the app to stop it.

Do all remux files have the same quality or should I stick with ones from specific groups?

I’m looking to buy a new 2026 LG oled but after hearing the issues with the stremio app not being available to download I wanted to check if it was fixed yet. In the few posts I saw, the devs said the app was under review and will be added soon so I was wondering if it has worked for anyone yet.

I know I can use an apple TV or nvidia shield but I’ve been using the stremio app on webos25 and it works great for me.

I have an nvidia shield pro and 253MBps wifi speed using just player but sometimes when playing a remux it'll constantly freeze for a few seconds then play then freeze again.

Edit: I update the new one and it seems to be working great so far (one show was just loading black for a bunch of options but others were okay and I found a file that was fine so I think it was just those versions for some reason)

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Noticed there’s some newer versions avail. I’m on 1.9.3 currently.

Should I update? Seems like there’s complaints about the newest versions.

Also, assuming I update, anyone know how to distinguish which of the 4 is right for my firestick?

Thanks!

When is the expected release of the full version of Stremio on VIDA TV os?

I was looking forward to the new release for Linux but several issues made this update feel more like a downgrade for the Steam Deck. Here's some of my thoughts:

1. Fullscreen both not default and barely functional. There is seemingly no way to force fullscreen on startup, where this was a feature in the previous versions.
2. Gamepad functionality is a joke. It's true, you can use B to go back from a menu, or scroll through a row with left and right on a d-pad, but going up and down is clunky and unusable. There is also no way to easily go between home/search/etc or open the settings without using trackpads or touchscreen.
3. No way to intuitively close the app. In any other app/game/whatever pressing B (the back button) should and usually does eventually get you to a point where you are prompted if you want to close the program. This is not the case with Stremio. In fact, nearly every single way I've attempted to prompt the app to close has failed. Holding STEAM + B on the deck forces nearly any game or app to close, but doesn't nothing for Stremio. Using Steam input to bind a keypress to "force game shutdown" does nothing either. I am forced to open the overlay and select exit game which brings me to
4. Performance is now abysmal. The previous versions had zero issues using my GPU or resources of the steam deck, but the new update, for one reason or another, uses a crazy about of memory and gpu, and has on several occasions crashed (sometimes when attempting to open steam overlay).

I'm really not trying to complain for the sake of complaining but this newest update feels more like a downgrade and I wish it was better than what it is. I wonder if anyone else has been encountering these issues and if there's any way to fix or remedy some of these.

Hello all

I’ve have set stremio up on my pc and added new addons to it and works fine but I’ve logged into my account on firestick and when I go to find a stream it is saying no streams available I have tried to sync my addons but still nothing

Hope you all can help

TCL TV and fireatick 4k pro max with torbox.

I've tried everything i can think of, I literally cannot watch anything on stremio after the 1.9.8 update. However I noticed that if I disable hardware accelerated decoding then things will load but it will be horribly choppy, so no difference really.

Hello! I recently got an OLED monitor (XG27AQDMGR). I calibrated the HDR through the windows calibration tool and it does look pretty good,considering the panel. I noticed that when I try to watch something that has any form of HDR,it looks pretty dull and less bright than SDR. I understand how HDR works,if I try to watch an HDR demo on YouTube,it looks as it should,highlights pop and it is an overall better picture than SDR. Do you guys have any recommendations or suggestions? I am using the internal player and I am thinking of switching to an external one.

EDIT: u/Next-Excitement1398 stepped in and resolved every single one of my issues. Please refer to the comment thread below for the solution!

The problem is the native player itself. If any stremio mods/devs are reading this,please,take a look at this thread. The services that you provide us with are wonderful,but there is so much that we are missing out on and we have to choose between watching our content as intended or giving away all of the QoL improvements that the internal player provides. I hope that we get a fix,or a solution that mitigates/resolves something as important as proper content consumption without missing on the wonderful QoL features that you guys have provided us with for years!

Hello everyone,

As you may know, TVtime is going to be shut down, so I'd like to ask for your recommendations on which app or tool I should use to track everything I watch. If it integrates with Stremio, even better.

Do you have any recommendations? I'd really appreciate your help!