Movies and Shows

Set Movie & show poster size under Settings → Appearance & theme to Small, Medium or Large. It applies consistently to All, Favourites and Watchlist, so smaller covers fit more titles on screen and larger covers are easier to see.

The detail page shows the synopsis, cast, rating and, where the provider supplies one, a Trailer button that opens YouTube or your browser.

Choose Movies opens to and Shows opens to under Settings → Menu & sections → Default screens to start on All, Favourites, All Playlists, Watchlist, History or Recently added whenever you select that section. Picking All Playlists is how you keep one TV service for live channels and another for films and shows without switching service every time: the section opens on the merged library and stays there. Backing out of a title still returns to the list and position you came from.

You don’t need to load the library yourself. Movies and Shows fill in on their own once a playlist becomes active, and refresh in the background on the same schedule as your channels and guide. The first load on a large provider can take a couple of minutes — the screen says “Loading your movie library…” while it works, and the posters appear as soon as it finishes. There is nothing to press and you can leave the screen; it carries on in the background.

The Recently added filter reads the real newest dated titles across the whole library, not just the first alphabetical page. If an older saved catalogue has no dates yet, use the refresh button offered on that empty screen. Sources that do not publish catalogue dates cannot populate the filter.

If the library itself ever comes up empty, there is a Load movies (or Load shows) button right on that screen, and Refresh movies / Refresh shows under Settings → Movies & shows. Some playlists carry no library at all — an M3U list or a live-only line — and TiviGlass will say so rather than leave you waiting.

Turn on Auto-play next episode (Playback → Reliability) to binge without touching the remote. Resume saved position in the same place decides whether TiviGlass asks, always resumes, or always starts over.

A safe Save choice receives focus first. Remove choices sit in their own final group, and Close stays pinned. All of this is per profile. Turn on Global favourites (Appearance → General) to see favourites from every playlist in one list rather than only the active one.

If a playlist disappears and comes back, your favourites come back with it. When a playlist is removed by something other than you — switched off in your account on the website, signed out of, or removed on another TV — your favourites, watchlist, history and reminders for it are kept aside rather than deleted. Add that playlist again, or switch it back on, and they reattach on their own. Only removing a playlist yourself, with Remove provider in Playlists, clears them for good.

Browsing the catalogue is always free — only the filter controls are Premium. Hiding or resetting a category asks for confirmation; a locked category asks for the parental PIN before it opens.

Trending is a view of what’s popular right now, matched against your catalogue — if a title isn’t in your playlist, TiviGlass says so rather than failing silently.

Renames are overlays, so a catalogue refresh never undoes them and restoring always brings the provider’s original name back untouched.

Cinemeta, the official movie and show catalogue, is installed for you. Torrentio is an optional community stream addon and is checked like any manually entered manifest before TiviGlass saves it. The default Torrentio preset contains no debrid credential; choose a debrid account in TiviGlass if its torrent results need resolving. Direct HTTP media plays in TiviGlass; YouTube and external-link results open the appropriate app or page. Per-stream headers and addon-provided subtitles are applied automatically. Your API key or OAuth token is encrypted on the device, like every other credential.

Adding, removing, turning off or reordering an add-on rebuilds this source’s catalogues on its own — a short update runs a couple of seconds after your last change, or straight away when you close the dialog, and a new add-on’s films, series and any TV channels appear when it finishes. Removing an add-on now asks for confirmation. The Stremio provider card keeps addons, its name and the connected debrid account together under Manage; searching Settings for any supported debrid provider — including Real-Debrid, Premiumize, AllDebrid, Debrid-Link, EasyDebrid, Offcloud, TorBox and Put.io — jumps straight to Playlists. TiviGlass reads the addon’s manifest as you add it, so a URL that isn’t a real addon is refused straight away instead of quietly doing nothing. Addon links copied without a scheme default to secure HTTPS, and signed configuration parameters after ? are kept on manifest, catalogue, metadata, stream and subtitle requests. Search covers Stremio sources too — results open the normal detail page and play exactly like a browsed title.

The title shows the number of sources returned, so you can tell at a glance how many choices were found. CACHED means it is already sitting on your debrid account and will start almost instantly. NEEDS DEBRID needs a configured debrid key; OPENS APP is a standard YouTube or external-link result. Once you pick a source for one episode, TiviGlass prefers the same release for the next one, so a binge stays consistent. If the list is empty, the addons you installed provide catalogues but no streams — add a stream addon in 27c.