Movian (formerly known as Showtime Media Center) is a media player for use on HTPC media centers. It is primarily intended to be controlled via keypad input such as a IR or bluetooth remote control, keyboards, etc but works also very well with a pointer device.
A quick overview of its features:
- Playback of video (mkv, mpg, mp4, divx, etc.) and audio files
- .srt, txt and .sub (Microdvd) subtitles support
- Per-file and per-folder settings
- Javascript plugins
- Unified search
- View photos and images in slideshow mode
- Live TV streaming from Tvheadend
- Icecast/Shoutcast radio streaming
- Navi-X, YouTube, Opensubtitles integration
- FTP Server, NTFS support, Temperature monitor
- FTP client support (Stream content directly from FTP servers)
- Custom background (via plugin)
- Support for BIG5 character encoding, On Screen Keyboard layouts.
Available on Android, Linux, OS/X, Raspberry Pi and PS3
Note: Movian has its own project site where you can learn and even participate. Also you can download the latest releases in the download page.
=== 737-745
Added: Support for artwork for movianDRM
Added: Support for direct playlist playback with movianDRM
Added: Support for subtitle formatting when playing videos with movianDRM.
Added: page.openurl for plugins (similar to page.redirect, but keeping the current page)
Added: Support for <u> <s> {y:u} {y:s} {an8} subtitle tags
Updated: Bulgarian translation (by PROXIMO)
Fixed: Unloading fonts after call/return from movianDRM or when loosing focus to another android app.
Fixed: Subtitles (SSA/ASS) now have bounding-box and proper size/colors
Added: Detection of movianDRM
Updated: movianDRM (5.1.744) - please re-install it
Updated: HLS logic and BG translation
=== 736
Fixed: Screensaver transitions will not show background video (paused or playing)
Added: Options in Settings / Look and Feel to hide Settings, Plugins and Local Network icons from Home screen (you can access Settings from the ||| menu if you hide 'Settings' or type 'settings:' in the search bar)
Changed: Home screen hover/selected animation
Changed: Video-details page to accommodate more lines for description
=== 730
Fixed: Crash when trying to play a video using hardware acceleration on some devices (Samsung or newer Android 12). Enable HW Acceleration in Settings/Video if you had this issue in the past.
Updated: Movian DRM to 5.1.730
Added: Storage Permission to All files (SDK 23 and later) (thanks to Buksa@4PDA)
=== 721/722/723/724
Improved: Instant fast-forward / seek in buffered data
Changed: Loading throbber size, color and speed
Changed: Video playback will do pre-buffer on load *and* seek
Improved: AudioTrack performance (pause/ffwd/rewind)
Improved: Instant fast-forward / seek in buffered data for live HLS streams
=== 720
Improved: SRT/WEBVTT subtitle processing
Changed: Screensaver appearance and timings
Fixed: HLS WEBVTT subtitles crash; All-caps CCs converted to sentence case (English) and long lines split
New: Plugin for Nebula subscribers (http://nebula.app)
=== 716-718
Fixed: Time-shift/chase-play mode during HLS live playback when [From Start] or [Standard with Rewind] is selected for 'HLS Live Playback Mode' in Video settings
Added: HLS support for supplementary subtitle variants (WEBVTT)
Added: HLS subtitles (WEBVTT) support for MPEGTS tag
Added: Support for live YouTube broadcasts in HLS format and WEBVTT subtitles
Fixed: HLS subtitles can be turned off
=== 714-715
Fixed: Crash during AAC audio stream probe (HLS secondary streams)
Added: Home & Settings shortcuts in the ||| Page Settings menu
=== 713
Added: Request for proper Storage Permissions (internal/external/USB)
Added: Remote-control [Menu] button can be mapped to TV/Device Settings (option in Look&Feel Settings)
Added: Android Storage (and USB Drives) on Home screen if option in Look&Feel is enabled
=== 708/712
Added: Detection of Android TV
Added: 'TV Settings' option in Page Settings to launch Device Settings on Android TV (tested on Sony Bravia, MiBox, Toshiba/Vestel Cosmos)
Added: Remote-control [Menu] button mapped to TV/Device Settings
Added: Long-press/Hold of the [OK] button during playback will pause/resume
Added: Option to auto-start a plugin when Movian starts (Settings/General/Launch plugin on Movian start)
Added: Built-in page route "youtubeAT:video_id" to play videos in the native Android YouTube app
Changed: Audio pass-through options default settings changed to 'Off' (please re-enable if needed)
Fixed: Some issues with HLS playback
=== 706/707
Fixed: Handling of 502/504 HTTP errors for live HLS streams
Fixed: Crash during HLS playback with broken segments
Updated: Bulgarian translation
=== 703/704/705
Added: Two preinstalled fonts (useful for Chrome/NACL version)
Fixed: Country detection at startup (ifconfig site)
Added: Bounding box opacity setting in Subtitle settings
Fixed: Bounding box background with colored text/subtitles
Added: Better timing processing for SRT and embedded text subtitles
=== 702
Improved OSD (On Screen Display).
Added support for 'description', 'image', 'startts' and 'endts' videoparams parameters for page.type='video'
Fixed HLS bitrate switching
=== 616
Added: Support for DVB Subtitles in HLS/ts container.
Fixed: HLS Bitrate/Quality switching
=== 614
Changed: If [Audio/Dolby Digital+ Support] is [On/Enabled] all unsupported pass-through codecs will be transcoded to E-AC3/DD+.
Fixed: If [Audio/Dolby Digital+ Support] is [Off/Disabled] E-AC3 audio will be transcoded to DD/AC3 if [Dolby Digital Pass-Through] is enabled, ignoring Device EAC3 capabilities. Solves issues on some devices like Oreo 4k.
=== 5.0.613
Fixed [PLAY] [PAUSE] [STOP] [BACK] button actions during playback.
Improved HLS playback and buffering.
Changes to audio ring-buffer to lower latency and for better lip-sync.
=== 5.0.612
* Fixed rare crashes during HLS playback when remote server disconnects unexpectedly.
* Improved HLS playback
=== 5.0.611
* Added: Option in General Bittorrent: Maximum Number of Connections (20-300). Useful to lower the number of connections for some routers / WiFi setups.
=== 5.0.610
* Reworked MediaCodec buffer handling
* Fixed AV sync issues on some devices introduced in 607-609 versions
* Added support for playback of VIDEO_TS folders (as files only)
=== 5.0.609
Settings/Video Playback:
* Added: "Deinterlace 480i/576i (sw)" option - Works only if hardware acceleration is disabled.
Improves playback of interlaced videos on faster systems (great results on MiBox3 for MPEG2 TV channels/videos and DVD-Video)
* Added: HLS Bitrate: [Highest (Best Quality)] / [Default] - It will always select the highest bitrate and avoid switching/blank screen
* Fixed: Show proper width/height when playing HLS on AndroidTV
Changes in 5.0
This release comes with a new user interface which works better with touch devices as Movian is now also available in Google Play store.
Highlights from this version, in no particular order:
- New "flat" user interface
- Official Mac OS X builds (with built-in updater)
- Official Android builds (with built-in updater)
- Improved screen saver
- Better video decoding support on Raspberry Pi
- Raspberry Pi 3 supported
- Show current time in top-right corner
- Hardware accelerated video decoding on Android
Have fun!
/Andreas