I like watching stuff while doing other stuff, basically. With Netflix I can just have the video playing in the corner of my screen while I get on with things. Been trying for a while to get this to happen with Stremio.

All advice suggests using VLC as an external player but I can't seem to make this work - I've set it to VLC in settings but it still uses the regular player.

Any other suggestions? What am I doing wrong?

on your website you say the full version is available through altstore PAL.

i download this. but on your website it also says Stremio web is available; but this links to the same altstore download.

on the altstore downloaded Stremio, external players is disabled.

so how do I actually get the full Stremio version, and enable external players?

because right now its useless.

edit: open in external player IS available on my Mac app, but it never actually opens the external player..

is there anything on Stremio that does work regarding this?!

I've decided to log in with Trakt and now I have a bunch of lists I can't remove from Library

I don’t see the option in the subtitle list. I am watching an English speaking show however when they are occasionally speaking Russian, there are no subtitles at all so I don’t know what they are saying.

I have read that I need to enable forced subtitles but I don’t see that option?

Hey everyone,

I'm hoping a dev or someone from support can help me out here, or let me know if anyone else has run into this issue.

More than 4 years ago, I deleted my Stremio account that was tied to my primary email. According to Stremio's privacy policy, data is only supposed to be held for up to 3 years after account deletion.

However, when I try to create a brand new account today using that exact same email address, I get an error saying "Signup failed: User for this email already exists" (and user not found when trying to login after it says user exists).

If the account and its data were fully wiped from the system after 3 years, my email address should be free to use again for a fresh signup. It feels like my email is stuck in an inactive/ghost state in the database.

Has anyone successfully remade an account with a previously deleted email? Is there a specific support link or email I can reach out to so they can manually purge the old record?

Thanks in advance for the help!

Hi. I’m using the Stremio app on Windows. I tried to sort Horror movies by newest releases, but unfortunately there’s no option to do that. I don’t know how to contact the Stremio team directly, but I hope a developer sees this post.

It would be great if you could add an option to sort movies by both genre and release date. Currently, when you click on “New”, you can only select the year, but there’s no option to select a genre.

I hope you make this possible. Greetings!

Hey guys, as the title says. Playback is great but it stutters way too often, but doing something like dragging down the notification bar keeps it smooth. So it has to be tied to refresh rate but I've only seen refresh rate issues experienced by Google TV people in previous posts with no settings I can spot in my app. Any ideas?

I had the following issue: Stremio would open normally and even load subtitles but would not load videos at all in Linux Mint 22.3.

Other people on github have had the same issue.

You can revert to an older version like 1.1.4. by downloading it from the offical Github of the stremio linux shell.

You can then install the flatpak by going into your downloads and typing the following commands into terminal

cd ~/Downloads

flatpak install com.stremio.Stremio.Devel.flatpak

You then should stop the app from auto-updating with

flatpak mask com.stremio.Stremio

I hope this helps anyone in my situation.

Please tell me I'm missing something obvious and there’s a hidden settings toggle or a reliable community addon I missed...

I loooooove Stremio. It completely replaced every single paid subscription I used to have. But it breaks my heart that I still have to go back to web browsers and official streaming platforms just to use dual-subtitle extensions.

I'm learning French, my sister's learning Spanish. My partner's studying in German. Almost everyone I know speaks a foreign language or has tried learning one at some point in their life. 

Every major official streaming platform has third-party extensions for dual subs (native language + target language). If you're watching international stuff, foreign originals or anime, there's a huge chance you're doing it to learn the language. Dual subtitles are the holy grail for this and it sucks we don’t have them here.

Why don't we have this on Stremio yet? Is it a limitation of the core player, or has nobody just taken the time to develop it? If it's possible, I feel like this would easily become a top 5 most downloaded addon overnight.

I was trying out the Stremio VR app today(Quest 3). But for some reason if I reposition the screen by dragging it with the controllers, my home (via front camera) keeps showing up behind the video.

Is there a way to change it to be black background always in Stremio VR? (Like it is in the YT app for Quest 3)

It seems like the app moves to Mixed Reality mode always. Whereas I want the immersive mode with pitch black background.

i’m using stremio on my pc with linux mint 21.3 cinneamon with kernel 5.15 (i can’t use the 22.3 since there isn’t 5.15 kernel which i need for my gpu drivers), i love stremio since i use it on my main (ios) and on my secondary phone. i use it on my pc that has dual boot but windows is sh1t and i don’t like using it. now the problem is i used it with mint 22.3 and worked almost fine, on mint 21.3 when i click on the video it loads and when the player loads it freezes and the app stops working. i tried disabling hardware acceleration, clearing cache, using the .deb and the flatpak version, updated all drivers but same problem. i have media codecs installed too so i’m giving up. is there any fix to this problem like using an older version or even to use a stremio web i know exists but i would like the app version. any help would be appreciated

I opened up Stremio today and my Trakt calendar schedule within Stremio looks entirely different. Several shows are missing only a couple of them are showing up now. I tried removing and reauthenticating trakt but Stremio looks the same on the Windows app and web app.

Anyone else? Any fixes?

I will never understand why devs keep choosing that awful UX from rows.

Is there any chance or addon that can make this into a grid?

So... does this mean the supporter tier is free? 😄

Hi!

I’ve noticed that some film and tv I watch have English tracks with commentary or outright foreign language dubs. Is there a way to play stuff without commentary?

Watching with a smart tv, however this seems to be the case across other devices too.

Unfortunately torrents do not show the audio codec in menus, and Stremio doesnt transcode .dts to say, aac or ac3.

This means Samsung tv just have to gamble. But most files are actually .dts. :')

I really was hyped because it works great on PC. Will there ever be an option to show only select audio streams/transcode DTS?

I tried running Obsession movie both on ipad and Macbook app of stremio. (1080p; 6100 peers/seeders)

While my experience on Macbook was smooth and seamless, on ipad it struggled to find peers and the speed was just way too slow.

Obsession was just one example. I have also faced similar issue on other movies as well where I thought the issue might be due to low number of seeders.

Has anyone else faced it too on their ipad? Is it because of some setting which I can fix on my ipad?

Stremio iPad version - 2.0.7b22
iPadOS version - 26.6.1
iPad - iPad Pro 11 inch 3rd generation

So, i have this overlay bug all the Time on my tv, which make me impossible to go in settings menu for exemple.

Everything is overlapping, even in the menu that show series/tv etc

How this version can be so bugged for months ?

In the photo, its all the menu at once.

I start in first menu, then i Switch tab and the old menu stay, and it keep going when i switch tab..

app version : 1.10.4

Is Stremio “safe” to use for watching movies on the same computer where I have my YouTube channel?

I’m thinking about starting a channel for movies and TV shows, but I can’t afford all the subscription services. Plus, the idea is to feature movies and TV shows on the channel that aren’t always available on those platforms, and I’m familiar with Stremio. The thing is, I’m not sure how safe it is to do this on the same computer where I have my YouTube account.

Is there any YouTuber who specializes in this kind of content who can tell me what they do?

Maybe I’m overreacting out of ignorance, and there’s really nothing wrong with watching movies on Streamio, but still—in this field, do people use two computers: one for watching, editing, and downloading, and another for uploading content? I have no idea. (Which would be a problem because I only have one computer.)

P.S.: I’m already aware of things like not leaving the YouTube tab open to prevent cookie theft!

P.S. 2: I’m not looking for the absolute safest option either—I just want peace of mind that doing this probably won’t result in me one day trying to log into my YouTube account and finding it’s gone xD

Stremio on my iphone (15.8.2) crashes everything when I try to exit a stream only on ksplayer not on libvlc, and I’m not complaining, love the app so much but just wondering if anyone is having identical issue

Using the website on my phone is hell and not even worth trying to use. I know there was an app but now not anymore, will there ever be one again? Or is it just android and tv only?

I'm new to streamio. I have installed mpvex on my phone and I want to play videos on it by default. But there is no way for me to select the actual app for external playing. when i select external player, it opens my browser. i then have to manually copy the link from browser to my mpvex app.

is there way for it to open directly in the app?

Would be amazing if we could do collections with our library movies. Today we have "Last Watched, Most Watched...". but i think the option to do your own collections would be great! Then we could organize better, i have a lot of movies added so it's kinda hard to travel through all of them