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📺 Nuvio PC - Unofficial

🚀 New version available — 0.1.16 — MPV Player & Desktop Stability Update

Hey everyone!

A new unofficial PC build of Nuvio is available. This update is mainly focused on the player, with a lot of work around MPV, playback stability, loading behavior, keyboard controls, notifications, and the Windows installer.

Internally, the PC build has also moved to a new development branch: feat/mediamp-sg-rework.

Fullscreen - (definitely needs bigger buttons, I'll work on that for larger displays and make it options for UI size)

What’s new since 0.1.15?

🎬 MPV player improvements

The Desktop player received a lot of stabilization work around the MPV/MediaMP backend.

Playback speed support is now properly registered, so features like hold-to-speed should work correctly. Source switching has also been improved so changing quality/source should better preserve your current playback position instead of restarting from the beginning.

The loading overlay was also reworked. It should now stay visible while the player is actually preparing the video, instead of disappearing too early and leaving a black screen while MPV is still getting ready.

⚙️ New Desktop decoder settings

A new Desktop decoder section has been added in the Playback settings.

You can now choose the MPV hardware decoder mode directly from the app, including options like:

• auto
• software
• nvdec
• nvdec-copy
• d3d11va
• d3d11va-copy
• dxva2
• dxva2-copy

Android-only decoder options are now hidden on PC, so the settings page should make more sense on Desktop.

New decoder options

⌨️ Keyboard shortcuts

More keyboard controls were added for the PC player. (From my end, they work when you set the player at least once in fullscreen with F11 or Fullscreen button, will fix ofc)

Currently included:

• F — player fullscreen
• F11 — app fullscreen
• Esc — exit fullscreen
• Space — play/pause
• Left / Right arrows — seek backward/forward

A keybind storage system was also added, but not everything is exposed in the UI yet. Some shortcuts like mute, next episode, skip intro, and speed cycling still need more work.

🖼️ GIF poster improvements incoming

GIF posters now follow a better Desktop behavior: the static poster stays as the base image, and the animated GIF appears as an overlay on hover (currently broken, GIF stays at frame 0, will be fixed)

There is also an “Always Animate GIFs” option in the Desktop home layout settings.

Always animate GIFs or not, like on TV, if focused, then animate (broken for now, sorry)

🔔 Notifications improvements

Portable builds should no longer be blocked from enabling episode notifications.

If Windows system notifications are not available, Nuvio now falls back to in-app notifications instead of just failing. Installed builds also received internal fixes for the Windows toast system, but I still need more real-world testing/feedback on that part.

🐛 Debug logs toggle

A new Debug Logs toggle has been added to the Playback settings.

This should make it easier to collect useful logs when reporting bugs, especially for player issues.

📦 Installer fixes

The Windows installer script was fixed and now properly builds the Inno Setup installer.

There is also continued work around portable builds, native MPV DLL packaging, and making the PC release easier to distribute.

Also improved / fixed

• Better loading screen behavior when opening a media
• Better source switching behavior
• Better MPV seek timing after source changes
• Better external subtitle handling and cleanup
• Improved Desktop addon HTTP handling, including Stremio/Torrentio-style URLs with | characters
• Debug logging improvements
• More PC-specific settings cleanup
• Internal version bump to 0.1.16

Known issues / still being worked on

This is still an unofficial PC build, so some things are not perfect yet.

Known areas that still need feedback or more work:

• Installed Windows notifications still need more runtime testing
• Some keyboard shortcuts are not fully wired yet
• Speed cycling by key may not behave correctly on AZERTY keyboards
• Subtitle styling still needs more testing
• Source switching should be better, but please report if a stream still restarts from the beginning
• D3D11/Vulkan rendering is not part of this update; MPV rendering still uses the current OpenGL/libmpv path

⚠️ Please be patient with this build. A lot of the player has been stabilized, but there are still rough edges.

If you already reported a bug and it is still not fixed, feel free to ping me again directly. Now that the player is getting more stable, I can focus more on your feedback and polish.

Link: https://github.com/CreepsoOff/NuvioDesktop/releases/tag/0.1.16

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on a Windows build of Nuvio, and I just updated it to follow the latest upstream NuvioMobile 0.1.14 changes.

So the goal isn’t to split away from the main project, I’m trying to keep this Windows version aligned with upstream while adding the PC-specific stuff on top.

NuvioDesktop - Home screen on a connected account with collections and catalogs.

What changed since 0.1.13:

• Merged the upstream 0.1.14 changes from NuvioMobile
• Added German language support and updated translations
• API keys are now hidden/masked in settings
• Better handling for unsupported magnet/torrent streams
• Improved watch progress behavior and player-related fixes
• Added a proper Windows desktop entrypoint and window behavior
• Window size/maximized state is now saved
• Added a Windows installer and portable build support
• Added Trakt login support through nuvio://auth/trakt
• Fixed the browser callback flow so it doesn’t leave a second Nuvio window open
• Added right-click support on desktop
• Added mouse drag scrolling for horizontal rows
• Added animated collection GIFs on desktop
• Improved poster sizing for bigger PC screens

Image of the player in fullscreen

The player side also got more work: fullscreen support, the F shortcut, better back/close handling, and some improvements around switching sources while keeping playback position.

Adapted sizes for Desktop

It’s still not “perfect stable final build” territory, especially around some player/runtime edge cases, but it’s now much closer to feeling like a real desktop version.

Full compare: https://github.com/CreepsoOff/NuvioDesktop/compare/0.1.13...0.1.14

Feedback is welcome, especially from people who try it on Windows.

Link to the repository : https://github.com/CreepsoOff/NuvioDesktop
Link to the latest version : https://github.com/CreepsoOff/NuvioDesktop/releases/latest