Vimu Media Player for TV

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About this app

Key features:
- One minute setup!
- Optimized for the TV.
- Support for most common file formats: MKV, AVI, MP4, MOV, FLV, TS, MPTS, WMV, DIVX, 3GP, VOB, MP3, FLAC, ALAC, JPEG (depends on device capabilities).
- Hardware decoding up to 4k (HEVC/VP9) on Android TV for compatible devices.
- Grid, list and double list navigation.
- Works as UPnP Renderer (DLNA Push) on Android TV.
- Simple and fast Leanback UI for Android TV.
- Android TV Picture-in-Picture mode support (7.0+).
- Navigation and playback from internal storage, SD cards and USB drives.
- Navigation and playback from Windows shares (SMB).
- Navigation, search and playback from UPnP/DLNA servers.
- Navigation and playback from WebDAV servers.
- Navigation and playback from NFS servers.
- Switching audio tracks in multilingual files.
- AC3, EAC3, DTS pass-through on Android TV.
- Support for external SRT subtitles in any encoding (you need to have an srt (lower case extension) file in the same directory as your movie file like movie.mkv and movie.srt).
- Support for embedded MKV, MP4 in SSA/ASS,, SRT, DVBSub and VOBSub formats
- M3U playlists support.
- Streaming (progressive download) from HTTP/HTTPS sources.

Application does not contain or provide any content! You need to have USB drive with media files or attach a network share (SMB, WebDAV, etc).

This app is ONLY compatible with TV boxes and TV-sets. Tablets and phones are not supported!

Documentation:
http://www.vimu.tv/

Official support forums:
Support Group: https://groups.google.com/group/gtvbox

If you have no sound while playback, your video file might have unsupported audio track.
If some of your files fail to play you can get refund for 3 days after purchase.

Apps is compatible with all official Android TV units.
App MAY BE compatible with some non-official TV Boxes based on Android 6.0 and higher.

Ratings and reviews

This is specifically for Chromecast I've tried a bunch of different Video/Audio players and none of them were close to this player in just working especially when working with external storage. It is also really fast, hands down the fastest compared to the free video players I tried, well worth the money

awsome. audio passthru just works, synced with video. smb just works, even anonymously. its the only player i know so far, that'll just keep your zoom settings. no weird glitches or audio lags when seeking... all those little things, you'd expect vlc to do but it just wouldn't. perfect

Installed on Google TV but clicking on the icon does nothing. Can't even install the app and Google won't allow a refund for some reason.

What's new

Android 14 Fix
10.80:
- Added 2.35:1 "on top" and "on bottom" aspect modes.
- Optimized photos loading over network.
- DV profile convertion is now enabled by default.
- Files with dts extentions are no recognized.
- Resume allowed for mpg, mts, m2t, webm, mpd extentions.
- Fixed crash when using external playlists in some cases.
- Fixed playback of some legacy codecs in MKV.
- Support for "an8" in SRT.
- Buffer value is now updated on pause.
- Various fixes in UI.
- Updated German translation.