Features
A complete media experience, out of the box
No add-ons for the basics. Here's the full tour, pillar by pillar.
Library & metadata
Point it at your folders and it does the rest.
- Automatic identification of movies and TV, with posters, backdrops, cast, and descriptions.
- One-click fix match and field-level editing when it guesses wrong — your edits stick through every refresh.
- Mixed collections: build ordered lists of movies, whole shows, and single episodes side by side.
- Custom posters and artwork upload, editions, and per-episode metadata.
Playback that just works
The right format reaches every screen without you thinking about codecs.
- Hardware-accelerated transcoding (NVENC and friends), with a direct-play fast path when the client can handle the file.
- HDR tone mapping for SDR screens, and clean subtitle handling — embedded and sidecar, converted on the fly.
- Playback speed from 0.5× to 2× on any stream, thumbnail trick-play previews as you scrub, and precise seeking.
- Skip intro, credits, and recap markers, with an Up Next card that rolls you into the next episode.
Live TV & DVR
Bring your own channels — we never inject content you didn’t add.
- Bring-your-own IPTV (M3U / Xtream) or an HDHomeRun tuner; a full channels-by-time guide grid on TV and web.
- Pause, rewind, and fast-forward live TV with a rolling timeshift buffer.
- Schedule recordings from the guide with padding and series rules; recordings land in your library as normal items.
- Optional Schedules Direct guide data with program artwork.
Households & sharing
Everyone gets their own space — no password sharing.
- Per-person profiles with separate watch history, Keep Watching, and favorites.
- Adults sign in from their own phone with a pairing code; kids and guests get profiles without an email.
- Share your server with friends and family — you cover their remote streaming, they never pay.
- Parental controls and PIN-locked profiles are on the roadmap.
Insights & automation
Know what’s happening, and wire it into anything.
- A live "now playing" view, watch history, and top titles and watch-time aggregates.
- Webhooks for playback start/finish, new items, and completed scans — send them to Discord, home automation, or your own scripts.
- A documented, token-authenticated API — the same one our apps use.
Remote access
Watch from anywhere, with zero networking knowledge.
- Secure remote access with no port forwarding and no setup — it just connects.
- Direct peer-to-peer when possible, with an encrypted relay fallback when your network won’t cooperate.
- This is the piece the subscription funds. Everything on your home network stays free.