StremioK for Samsung Tizen TVs (Tizen 3.0+)

StremioK is a from-scratch Stremio-addon streaming client for Samsung Tizen TVs. It was originally built for a 2017 UN50MU6100 running Tizen 3.0 (~Chromium 47) and is also tested on a 2021 QN55Q80AAG running Tizen 6.0. A user reports it working on Tizen 4 too.

Old Samsung Tizen TVs run web applications rather than Android APKs. StremioK is therefore written in old-Chromium-compatible HTML, JavaScript (ES5) and CSS, and plays video through Samsung's AVPlay API.

• Installation guide: the three ways to put it on your TV.
• User guide: how to use it, task by task.
• Troubleshooting: when something doesn't work.
• Privacy and data: what's kept on the TV, and what's sent where.
• Settings reference: every setting, its choices and default.
• Changelog: what changed in each version.
• Developer guide: how it's put together, and running it in a browser.
• Security policy: reporting a vulnerability, privately.

Highlights

• Your addons: catalogs, details, sources and subtitles from the Stremio addons you add (Cinemeta and OpenSubtitles to start with), in the order you choose.
• Home with Watching (Continue Watching, synced with Trakt if you connect it), Movies, Series, IPTV, Guide, Radio, Sports, YouTube and Local tabs; Discover to browse any catalog in full; Search across every addon that can search, and people by name.
• Title pages: ranked sources with ▶ Play best, trailers, ratings (IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic… with your own API keys), seasons and episodes with their own pages, Cast & more, More like this and collections.
• The player: resume where you stopped, skip intros, recaps and credits, next episode, subtitles (addons', the file's own, and your own files on a USB drive) with your choice of look, audio tracks remembered, switching source mid-playback, private viewing.
• IPTV and radio from your M3U playlists, Xtream accounts and Stalker portals (with their films and series), with CH+ / CH−.
• YouTube: live channels, trailers, and your own YouTube channels, playlists and searches, with SponsorBlock, DeArrow, chapters and captions.
• Local: the videos on a USB drive, matched to their titles.
• Torrents, through Stremio's streaming server or a TorrServer you run on your network.
• Made for the remote: D-pad navigation throughout; ▶ Play on a movie, episode or channel plays its top source at once; hold OK where an item has more to offer (Hold OK for more says so); zoom up to 140% for reading from further away.

Install

Three ways, all covered step by step in the installation guide:

• TizenBrew (Tizen 3.0 to 6.0): add the NPM module stremiok. No certificate needed; StremioK's storage is shared with other TizenBrew modules.
• Apps2Samsung: installs a release's .wgt, signing it with your own Samsung certificate. No Tizen Studio needed.
• Tizen Studio: build the .wgt from this repository and sideload it.

First steps

1. Addons: add the addons you use, by link, or bring them in from your Stremio account, AIOManager or a configuration file. A stream addon that gives HTTP(S) links (for example through a debrid service), or a torrent addon with a streaming server you run, is what makes titles playable.
2. API keys, optional: your own TMDB, OMDb and MDBList keys add ratings, Cast & more, where to watch and episode trailers.
3. Trakt, optional: connect your account to share watched marks and Continue Watching.
4. IPTV, optional: your M3U playlist links, an Xtream account (its server, username and password) or a Stalker portal (its address and MAC address).
5. A USB drive, optional: plug it in and the Local tab appears.

Getting started in the user guide walks through each.

Content / legal note

This app hosts no media. It is a client for the open Stremio addon protocol: catalogs and metadata come from the addons you install (Cinemeta, the official one, by default), and playable sources come from whatever stream addons you add yourself in Settings. Streams that only expose a torrent infoHash play only through a streaming server you run (Stremio's or TorrServer): this app embeds no torrent or debrid engine.

Note on WatchHub: StremioK doesn't install it: its answers say it's only for clients Stremio authorizes in writing. "Where to watch" comes from TMDB instead (with a TMDB key).

The IPTV feature likewise hosts no content: you supply your own M3U playlist URLs, Xtream accounts or Stalker portals. For YouTube entries, the bundled service finds the video's stream; the video itself comes straight from YouTube. No video or audio is kept: everything plays straight from its source, unless you download it to your own USB drive. What StremioK does keep, on the TV, is your progress, settings and copies that let it start faster (see Privacy and data).

DRM: StremioK doesn't break or bypass copy protection. A protected channel plays only with the license server or keys its playlist gives (Widevine and PlayReady through the TV's player, ClearKey through Shaka Player), as in Kodi and other players. StremioK can't tell where a playlist's keys come from: use only streams and keys you're entitled to; what you add is your responsibility.

Known limitations

• AVPlay behavior varies by TV generation, codec and HLS provider.
• Torrents play only through a streaming server you run on your network.
• Home rows show 30 titles of a catalog unless you change it, up to Unlimited (★ Favorites shows all yours); Discover pages through the rest.
• No StremioK account and no profiles: settings, addons and progress stay on the TV. The only sync is optional: Trakt (watched marks, Continue Watching, ratings).
• Subtitles use an HTML overlay; gzipped (.gz) subtitle files aren't decoded.
• No playback speed control (the TV's player mutes audio at other speeds), and no HDR / frame-rate mode switching (not available to web apps on Tizen 3).
• Search and text fields use the TV's own on-screen keyboard, or your phone: a QR code opens a one-time page StremioK serves on your home network. It's plain HTTP (unencrypted), so use it only on a network you trust, since addon and playlist links often carry tokens.
• "Where to watch" sources open the app on its home screen, or on the title only where an addon you added gives the app's own link and the app takes it. Opening apps under TizenBrew depends on what TizenBrew allows its modules; the .wgt has the permission.
• YouTube channels and trailers depend on the bundled service and on YouTube's undocumented behavior, so YouTube changes may need resolver updates.

License

MIT: see LICENSE.

It includes Shaka Player 5.3.3 (© Google LLC, Apache License 2.0: js/vendor/SHAKA-LICENSE), loaded only to play ClearKey channels.

Skip timestamps come partly from SkipDB, whose data is published under the ODbL 1.0 (see its DATA-LICENSE). StremioK only reads it through SkipDB's public API and keeps none of it.

js/qrcode.js is qrcode-generator by Kazuhiko Arase (MIT), unchanged; it draws the TV's QR codes (Trakt sign-in, entering text from your phone, Continue on phone, an addon's Share and Configure).