Playback and video quality

Everything on this page lives in the player itself, while something is playing. Nothing here changes the stream your source sends: the app plays what it receives, and the quality ceiling is always the source’s.

Picture shape and zoom

The player’s video settings offer the usual aspect choices: original, fit, fill, 16:9, 4:3 and cinema-scope, plus zoom from half size to double. The choice is remembered, so a channel that always broadcasts with the wrong bars only needs correcting once.

Audio tracks

Streams can carry more than one audio track. The player lists what the stream really carries, and picks the track matching the profile’s preferred language when one exists. Change it from the audio menu while playing; movies, shows, catch-up and live TV all have one.

Subtitles

Subtitle tracks embedded in the stream are listed in the player, off by default or set to the profile’s preferred language. On live TV the subtitle control appears only when the stream actually carries a track, so its absence means the channel is not broadcasting any. Separate subtitle files sitting next to a video are not supported today.

Channel numbers

Typing a number while watching jumps to that channel. Numbers come from your source when it provides them, and you can set your own on any channel; your own number always wins. Sources sometimes give many channels the same number, so repeating the same digits steps through the duplicates instead of guessing.

Sleep timer

The player’s sleep timer stops playback after 15, 30, 60 or 90 minutes, with a visible countdown. Live TV stops fully, so a connection to your source is not held open all night. A movie or episode pauses instead, keeping your resume position. The timer belongs to the session: closing the app clears it, and it never touches a running recording.

Picture-in-picture

Live TV can detach into a small always-on-top window with minimal controls, so a match keeps playing in the corner while you use another program.