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