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Movian v5.0.745 by Andreas Smas / deank
Last Release: Sep 5, 2023
Downloads: 903513

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.
Name Version Released Hits DL Link
Movian (deank) v5.0.745 09/05/23 4525 Download
Movian (Official) v5.0.548 09/26/18 101523 Download
=== 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
Name Version Released Hits DL Link
Movian (deank) v5.0.736 05/10/23 7444 Download
Movian (deank) v5.0.730 01/10/23 10524 Download
Movian (deank) v5.0.724 06/18/22 22383 Download
Movian (deank) v5.0.723 06/13/21 32512 Download
Movian (deank) v5.0.722 06/05/21 927 Download
Movian (deank) v5.0.720 05/04/21 6373 Download
Movian (deank) v5.0.718 04/25/21 1121 Download
Movian (deank) v5.0.717 04/12/21 1245 Download
Movian (deank) v5.0.716 03/22/21 1559 Download
Movian (deank) v5.0.715 03/09/21 1558 Download
Movian (deank) v5.0.712 01/25/21 2652 Download
Movian (deank) v5.0.711 01/03/21 1817 Download
Movian (deank) v5.0.710 12/07/20 2454 Download
Movian (deank) v5.0.709 10/24/20 5748 Download
Movian (deank) v5.0.707 07/11/20 3922 Download
Movian (deank) v5.0.705 06/21/20 10279 Download
Movian (deank) v5.0.615 12/19/19 5995 Download
Movian (deank) v5.0.613 11/05/19 5033 Download
Movian (deank) v5.0.602 07/02/19 5255 Download
Movian (Official) v5.0.490 07/29/17 95205 Download
Movian Testing (Official) v4.99.812 03/27/16 83757 Download
Showtime Testing [CEX] v4.99.812 03/27/16 4370 Download
Showtime Testing [DEX] v4.99.812 03/27/16 4069 Download
Showtime Testing [CEX] v4.9.430 05/11/15 13300 Download
Showtime Stable (Official) v4.8 12/31/14 22538 Download
Showtime Testing [CEX] v4.7.494 11/16/14 5889 Download
Showtime Testing [DEX] v4.7.494 11/16/14 5036 Download
Showtime Testing [CEX] v4.7.095 07/12/14 8612 Download
Showtime Testing [DEX] v4.7.095 07/12/14 5542 Download
Showtime Stable (Official) v4.6.10 05/15/14 24914 Download
Showtime Testing [CEX] v4.5.328 04/20/14 6399 Download
Showtime Testing [DEX] v4.5.328 04/20/14 5296 Download
Showtime Testing [CEX] v4.5.302 03/22/14 5714 Download
Showtime Testing [DEX] v4.5.302 03/22/14 5053 Download
Showtime Testing [CEX] v4.5.087 02/09/14 6116 Download
Showtime Testing [DEX] v4.5.087 02/09/14 4980 Download
Showtime Stable v4.4 01/30/14 10753 Download
Showtime Testing [CEX] v4.3.582 12/15/13 8723 Download
Showtime Testing [DEX] v4.3.582 12/15/13 5245 Download
Showtime Testing [CEX] v4.3.536 09/30/13 5666 Download
Showtime Testing [DEX] v4.3.536 09/30/13 4897 Download
Showtime Testing [CEX] v4.3.479 09/06/13 6322 Download
Showtime Testing [CEX] v4.3.282 07/07/13 5372 Download
Showtime Testing [DEX] v4.3.282 07/07/13 4824 Download
Showtime Testing [CEX] v4.3.240 06/02/13 5750 Download
Showtime Testing [DEX] v4.3.240 06/02/13 4993 Download
Showtime Testing [CEX] v4.3.211 05/03/13 5540 Download
Showtime Testing [DEX] v4.3.211 05/03/13 4651 Download
Showtime Testing [CEX] v4.3.154 04/07/13 5464 Download
Showtime Testing [DEX] v4.3.154 04/07/13 4727 Download
Showtime Testing [CEX] v4.3.128 03/30/13 5075 Download
Showtime Testing [DEX] v4.3.128 03/30/13 4837 Download
Showtime Testing [CEX] v4.3.100 03/24/13 5045 Download
Showtime Testing [DEX] v4.3.100 03/24/13 4908 Download
Showtime Testing [CEX] v4.3.048 03/06/13 4976 Download
Showtime Testing [DEX] v4.3.048 03/06/13 4762 Download
Showtime Testing [CEX] v4.3.037 03/01/13 4585 Download
Showtime Testing [DEX] v4.3.037 03/01/13 4717 Download
Showtime Stable v4.2 02/04/13 12652 Download
Showtime Stable (Official) v4.10.41 03/28/16 5166 Download
Showtime Testing [CEX] v4.1.307 12/15/12 5416 Download
Showtime Testing [CEX] v4.1.264 11/28/12 5123 Download
Showtime Testing [DEX] v4.1.264 11/28/12 4524 Download
Showtime Testing [CEX] v4.1.200 10/20/12 5408 Download
Showtime Testing [DEX] v4.1.200 10/20/12 4929 Download
Showtime v4.0 08/29/12 4847 Download
Showtime v4.0 08/29/12 4849 Download
Showtime v3.4 01/23/12 4745 Download
Showtime v3.2 09/18/11 4618 Download
Showtime v3.0 07/01/11 4564 Download
Showtime Testing [CEX] v05.00.494 01/01/18 7957 Download
Showtime Testing [CEX] v05.00.490 09/12/17 3109 Download
Showtime Testing [CEX] v05.00.406 08/28/16 14957 Download
Showtime Testing [DEX] v05.00.406 08/28/16 14793 Download